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10 October 2025

New Framework For Corporate Sustainability Reporting Expertise Announced

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Gen Temizer

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Gen Temizer is a leading independent Turkish law firm located in Istanbul's financial centre. The Firm has an excellent track record of handling cross-border matters for clients and covers the full bandwidth of most complex transactions and litigation with its cross-departmental, multi-disciplinary and diverse team of over 30 lawyers. The Firm is deeply rooted in the local market with over 80 years of combined experience of the name partners while providing the highest global standards of legal services.
The purpose of the Public Oversight Accounting and Auditing Standards Authority resolution ("Board Resolution") is to set out the principles and procedures regarding the establishment and development of "green-collar" personnel capacity within enterprises
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Overview

  • The purpose of the Public Oversight Accounting and Auditing Standards Authority resolution ("Board Resolution") is to set out the principles and procedures regarding the establishment and development of "green-collar" personnel capacity within enterprises, organizations providing reporting-related services, and other entities, in order to enhance the quality and reliability of corporate sustainability reports. ("Report")
  • The scope covers the collection and evaluation of information obtained from departments such as finance, accounting, risk management, and environment and its compilation into a Report, as well as the training, licensing ("License"), and supervision processes of Corporate Sustainability Reporting Experts ("Expert"), including the granting, suspension, and revocation of such licenses.

Utilization of Expertise Services

  • Enterprises preparing Reports may employ Experts to coordinate stages such as the preparation of question sets and forms related to the Report, collection of information, evaluation of data, conducting necessary analyses, establishing the reporting framework, as well as drafting and presenting the Report, and to carry out the required tasks in these areas.

Licensing Requirements and Examination

Those who wish to become an Expert must:

  • Hold at least an undergraduate degree,
    • Successfully pass the examination,
    • Possess experience, relevant professional
    • Not have been convicted of an intentional criminal offense punishable by imprisonment of one year or more, or of crimes against the security of the state, crimes against the constitutional order and its functioning, embezzlement, extortion, bribery, theft, fraud, forgery, breach of trust, fraudulent bankruptcy, bid rigging, obstruction of performance of an obligation, interference with an information system, destruction or alteration of data, laundering of proceeds of crime, financing of terrorism, smuggling, tax evasion, or unlawful acquisition of property.
    • Applicants for a License must submit declarations, documents, and information demonstrating that they satisfy the relevant requirements to the Authority.
  • The examination consists of two modules: "Corporate Sustainability Reporting" and "Financial Reporting and Corporate Governance"
  • In order to pass the examination, candidates must obtain at least sixty points in each module. In calculating the final score, fractions are rounded and displayed to two decimal places.

Professional Experience

  • Applicants for a License are required to have at least 8 months of professional experience in Reporting.
  • For the calculation of this period, the notification periods reported to the Social Security Institution shall be taken into account.
  • However, in certain special cases listed in the Board Resolution, professional experience is not required.

License Renewal Training

  • License holders must attend renewal training every 3 years, starting from the beginning of the year following their date of registration in the registry. Participation in at least 80% of the training duration is mandatory.
  • At the end of the renewal training, an examination shall be held. Both training and examination results are jointly assessed for license renewal.

Suspension or Revocation of License

  • Licenses of those who fail to complete the renewal training and examination shall be suspended.
  • Suspended licenses shall be reactivated within a maximum of 2 years, provided that the renewal training and examination requirements are fulfilled.
  • Licenses of those who act in violation of the regulations or who fail to complete the renewal training and examination within the prescribed period shall be revoked

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