Tasks of the Chamber

DUTIES OF THE CHAMBER

Exchanges of Turkey Chambers and No. 5174 with the Chamber and Commodity Code, Article 12

The duties of the chambers of commerce and industry, chambers of commerce, chambers of industry and maritime commerce are as follows:

a) To protect and develop professional ethics, discipline and solidarity, to work for the development of commerce and industry in line with the public interest.

b) To compile and deliver information and news concerning trade and industry, to provide information to be requested by official authorities within the framework of the relevant laws, and to provide all kinds of information that may be required by the members in the execution of their profession, in case of their application or to facilitate their acquisition, to guide their members on electronic commerce and internet networks. To take initiatives to show, to establish and operate the necessary infrastructure in these matters.

c) To carry out all kinds of examinations related to trade and industry, to keep indices and statistics of economic, commercial and industrial activities in their regions, to monitor and record the market prices of major items and to disseminate them with appropriate means.

d) To arrange and approve the documents in article 26.

e) To make proposals, requests and applications to official authorities on matters related to professional activities; If all or some of its members have professional interests, to sue on behalf of these members or on their behalf with a decision of the council

f) To determine the commercial and industrial customs and practices within their field of work, to submit them to the approval of the Ministry and to announce them.

g) To take professional decisions that must be followed by its members.

h) Participating in domestic and international fairs and exhibitions.

ı) To determine and approve the maximum price tariffs for the goods and services listed in Article 125 of the Law No. 507 on Tradesmen and Small Craftsmen for their members in accordance with the regulation to be issued by the Ministry.

j) To work on the development of maritime trade in accordance with the public interest, national transportation and maritime trade policy.

k) National and make investigations of international maritime trade and to provide information on this subject, the ports of Turkey international and overseas freight, agent commission and fees to collect information such as port costs and spread them in the fastest possible way by any means possible, the most recent developments in world maritime trade to monitor, to keep statistics and to announce them to the relevant people.

l) To determine and announce the commercial customs and practices of maritime trade, to prepare type forms for freight agreements, bill of lading and similar documents.

m) possibilities of foreign ship owners and maritime-related institutions to equip airports with Turkey's port, working procedures, providing information about tariffs and port costs, and they provide similar information from.

n) To be a member of international organizations related to maritime trade and to have delegates.

o) To act as an arbitrator in disputes related to maritime trade upon the request of the concerned parties.

p) To prepare maritime agency service fee scales and submit them to the approval of the Ministry.

r) To fulfill the duties assigned by other legislation and the duties assigned by the Union and the Ministry within the framework of the relevant laws.

s) To keep member records according to the standards set by the Union and to keep the documents regarding membership fees and to report them to the Union upon request.

t) To carry out these works in case the works assigned to ministries or other public institutions and organizations by legislation are entrusted to chambers within the framework of the establishment purposes and duty field specified in this Law.

u) To provide the documents that its members need and to provide the necessary services related to them.

v) Evaluating the applications to be made regarding domestic fairs and making an offer to the Association.

y) To examine the consumer complaints about its members and to carry out other activities in line with the establishment purposes.

z) To prepare capacity reports for industrialists by chambers of commerce and industry, and by chambers of industry in provinces where chambers are separate.

Chambers, within the framework of other legislation provisions;

a) Establishing or participating in laboratories for determining the qualities of commercial goods, establishing or participating in international calibration, test and measurement laboratories, providing certification services,

b) To open courses related to trade, maritime and industry under the permission and supervision of the Ministry of National Education, to assist the courses opened, to have students read for areas needed in the country and abroad, and to have interns; To conduct studies to develop and direct vocational and technical education and training, to issue documents related to this application in professions that are not included in the Vocational Education Law numbered 3308, limited to the workplaces of its members,

c) To be an arbitrator in commercial and industrial disputes, to establish arbitration boards, upon the request of the concerned parties,

d) Participating in exhibitions, fairs, public stores, warehouses, museums and libraries that have been or will be opened,