Further to the enactment of the Law on the Regulation of the Retail Trade (No. 6585) (the "Law") in January 2015, the Ministry of Customs and Trade issued the new Regulation on Shopping Malls on 26 February 2016 (the “Regulation”) setting out the criteria for shopping malls, the principles on how common areas in shopping malls should be used and expenses charged for them, the licensing of shopping malls and the rules on the allocation of space to certain professions within shopping malls.