The proposal, which includes public tender exemption, customs duty exemption and prison building fee exemption, was approved at the General Assembly.
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Article 4 of the proposal accepted in the General Assembly of the Turkish Grand National Assembly covers the rights and exemptions of the Turkish Red Crescent. First aid services, disaster logistics services and products and services for temporary shelter produced by the Turkish Red Crescent and the economic enterprises, participants or companies of which more than half of the capital belongs, will be evaluated within the scope of strategic procurement, in order to strengthen the national disaster management capacity in disasters and emergencies and disaster preparedness and extraordinary periods, to ensure supply security, to accelerate the response processes, to eliminate needs and grievances, to prevent diseases and to improve health conditions.
According to Article 4 of the proposal accepted at the General Assembly, the rights and exemptions of the Turkish Red Crescent are also stipulated.
Accordingly, in order to strengthen the national disaster management capacity, ensure supply security, accelerate response processes, eliminate needs and grievances, prevent diseases and improve health conditions in disasters and emergencies and disaster preparedness and extraordinary periods, first aid services, disaster logistics services and products and services for temporary shelter produced by the Turkish Red Crescent and its economic enterprises, participants or companies of which more than half of the capital is owned, will be evaluated within the scope of strategic procurement. These purchases can be procured directly from the Turkish Red Crescent or from economic enterprises, participants or companies in which the Turkish Red Crescent owns more than half of its capital, without being subject to the Public Procurement Law. These purchases will be made within the framework of coordination and protocols to be carried out between the relevant ministry and the Turkish Red Crescent, taking into account the scope, urgency and level of need of the disaster or emergency, within the framework of the principles of transparency, competition, equal treatment, public control, meeting the needs under appropriate conditions and on time, and efficient use of resources.
In the General Assembly, with the motion adopted by the AK Party, it was stated that "During times of disasters and emergencies such as fire, flood, earthquake, at least at levels where intervention at national capacity is required, and in extraordinary periods, the delivery and presentation of the products and services produced by the Turkish Red Crescent and its economic enterprises, participants or companies of which more than half of the capital is owned by the Turkish Red Crescent, for first aid, disaster logistics and temporary shelter, to real and private law legal entities will only be made with the knowledge of the Turkish Red Crescent Headquarters Board of Directors." added.
Public institutions and organizations will be able to allocate deemed appropriate movable properties to the Turkish Red Crescent in accordance with the relevant legislation, except for vehicles within the scope of the Vehicle Law. In addition, machinery, equipment, equipment and similar movable properties in these institutions and organizations, which are deemed appropriate, can be transferred to the Turkish Red Crescent free of charge, within the scope of public interest and in accordance with the relevant legislation.
In order to avoid duplication of aid to people in need and to provide aid to more people, data regarding social aid within the Ministry of Family and Social Services will be given to the Turkish Red Crescent within the scope of the Personal Data Protection Law, with a protocol to be made. Data access within this scope will be made only to the extent required by the task and by authorized persons.
The association will be exempt from prison building fees, which are regulated in accordance with the provision in the Law on Fees to be Collected for the Construction of Prisons and Court Buildings and Food Fees to be Paid to Prisoners.
The costs of blood components supplied by the Turkish Red Crescent to public health service providers and public university health service providers will be transferred to the Turkish Red Crescent by the Social Security Institution on the payment date specified in accordance with the contract, after the delivery of the blood components in accordance with the contracts made with these institutions, and will be offset from the receivables of the relevant health service provider.
Scientific instruments and devices, instruments and devices for medical diagnosis, treatment and research, human-derived therapeutic substances, blood grouping tests and substances for the quality control of pharmaceutical products imported for use by the association in line with its founding purpose, without commercial purposes, will be exempt from customs duties.
Tools, devices, substances and tests within the scope of this provision cannot be lent, given as collateral, rented, transferred, sold or used for purposes other than the exemption, with or without a certain amount of money, to persons, institutions and organizations that cannot benefit from the exemption, unless 5 years have passed from the date of their entry into free circulation. If action is taken to the contrary, the customs duties of the goods in question will be collected in accordance with the provisions of the Customs Law. Within 5 years from the date of their entry into free circulation, it will be possible to lend them to individuals, institutions and organizations benefiting from the exemption, for a certain amount of money or for free, to provide them as collateral, to rent them, to transfer them, to sell them or to use them for purposes other than the exemption, provided that permission is obtained from the customs administration. In these cases, customs duties will not be required.
On the other hand, Deputy Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Celal Adan, celebrated the Red Crescent Week and said, "Strong societies stand with solidarity. We proudly follow the work of our Turkish Red Crescent, the symbol of solidarity. On this occasion, we congratulate our Turkish Red Crescent President Prof. Dr. Ms. Fatma Meriç Yılmaz and her team and wish them continued success." he said.
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The General Assembly of the Turkish Grand National Assembly accepted the bill regarding the Turkish Red Crescent. The proposal regulates the Turkish Red Crescent's direct procurement of strategic purchases without being subject to the Public Procurement Law, customs duty exemption and sharing of social assistance data through the protocol. With the AK Party's proposal, the delivery of products and services produced by the Turkish Red Crescent itself to real and private law legal entities during disasters and extraordinary periods will be made within the knowledge of the Headquarters Board of Directors. The New Party's article 5 proposal was postponed as the meeting quorum was not found as a result of the roll call.

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