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On 16th December 2022, the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization, and Climate Change, Turkey announced that the terminology table with English-Turkish equivalents of terms related to chemicals managem...

On 16th December 2022, the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization, and Climate Change, Turkey announced that the terminology table with English-Turkish equivalents of terms related to chemicals management regulation has been updated.

With the registrations going forward to meet the deadline of December 2023 under KKDIK, this table would be helpful for the preparation and submission of the technical dossiers. It is recommended by the Ministry to use the translations in the terminology table in Chemical Registration Dossiers, Chemical Safety Reports, and Safety Data Sheets prepared by companies and certificated specialists.

The deadline for KKDIK registration, 31 December 2023, is not expected to be postponed. We suggest that industry representatives should complete the process as soon as possible since substances not registered after the deadline will not be able to enter the Turkish market.

If you want to learn more about this, and the table, please contact GPC.

Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change (MoEUCC) in Turkey is planning measures to offer KKDIK registrants an advantage to submit dossiers before December 2023, the registration deadl...

Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change (MoEUCC) in Turkey is planning measures to offer KKDIK registrants an advantage to submit dossiers before December 2023, the registration deadline, since the industry criticized significant issues with data access for an extremely low number of registrations submitted under the REACH-like regulation.

During the meeting held on the 11th of October, 2022 with industry representatives, the Ministry told that it will publish a circular soon to support registrations, alongside revised guidelines on data sharing. Until then, the Ministry has only received 504 lead dossiers which is much lower than expected. Within the scope of KKDIK, the industry forecasts that approximately 10,000 substances will be included. The data problems with KKDIK seem much more severe than those experienced in other countries such as South Korea with K-REACH. Furthermore, registrants might not increase much until the problems with data sharing were solved.  

The challenges with data access range from a general lack of understanding about where and how to acquire information inside the local sector, which is primarily made up of SMEs, to numerous administrative expenditures and costs that many businesses find difficult to deal with. To overcome data-sharing problems, the Ministry said that they would analyze the options to generate data at local labs to improve activity and capacity.

Ministry representatives made it clear that they would not postpone the KKDIK registration deadline, December 2023. On the other hand, it could be considered to set a timeframe for the lead registrant to submit completed dossiers with necessary test data.

As a result, we would recommend to complete the registration processes at the earliest time with new data sharing measures.

To learn more about latest updates, please contact GPC.  

The Ministry of Environment, Urbanization, and Climate Change of Turkey had the guidance documents published by the European Chemicals Agency translated for the ongoing KKDIK registration process and ...

The Ministry of Environment, Urbanization, and Climate Change of Turkey had the guidance documents published by the European Chemicals Agency translated for the ongoing KKDIK registration process and presented them to the chemical industry for their knowledge.

ECHA (European Chemicals Agency) had prepared guidance documents for the EU REACH registration process before, which are helpful to countries under registration processes. These guidance documents contain regulatory and facilitating information on many activities related to chemicals. Industry managers, chemical assessment experts, and personnel involved in data entry into the chemical registry system would benefit from translated guidance documents and instructions since these contain a lot of the data needed for the chemical registration system.

Since the deadline for registrations, December 2023 is approaching under KKDIK, it will be beneficial for the concerned people to examine the guidance documents on the chemicals help desk.

The Ministry would like to make sure that the registration of substances related to chemicals is made without delay by making use of the guidance documents for the completeness checks of these registrations can be carried out by them.

We recommend for those working in the chemical industry take advantage of the available resources and complete their registration processes at the earliest time.  

If you want to learn more about this, and the document, please contact GPC.

On March 17th 2022, the SME regulation has been updated to redefine the micro, small and medium enterprises to match the value change of the Turkish Lira in the past years. The new definitions might a...

On March 17th 2022, the SME regulation has been updated to redefine the micro, small and medium enterprises to match the value change of the Turkish Lira in the past years. The new definitions might affect companies who have declared themselves as SMEs before, subsequently affecting the official fees related to their business size for KKDIK registration.

With the registrations going forward to meet the deadline of December 2023 under KKDIK, the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change of Turkey is asking for a signed SME declaration from the registrants if they have previously declared themselves as SMEs.

You could find the new criteria under SME regulation here: 

On June 26th 2022, the Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation, and Climate Change, Turkey announced an update for the KKDIK registration regarding the languages of the reports to be submitted. Impo...

On June 26th 2022, the Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation, and Climate Change, Turkey announced an update for the KKDIK registration regarding the languages of the reports to be submitted.

Importers or manufacturers residing in Turkey and Only Representatives residing in Turkey appointed by manufacturers residing outside of Turkey should submit the technical dossier including the main information for the substances above 1 TPA.

In the announcement, the Ministry indicated that Full Study Reports and other attachment documents can be uploaded in English to the Chemical Registration System. However, other fields in the system such as "Robust Study Summaries" and "Study Summaries," remain to be Turkish only.

The deadline for final registration under KKDIK is 31st December 2023. Substances not registered after 31st December 2023 will not be able to enter the Turkish market.

The Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change of Turkey has developed a new website to search for information regarding the inventory of chemicals called Chemicals Data System (KIMVES...

The Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change of Turkey has developed a new website to search for information regarding the inventory of chemicals called Chemicals Data System (KIMVES). While the system resembles the substance search features of ECHA’s website, only the data regarding CLP notification is currently available.

Users can search substances by name, CAS number or EC number and view the notified classification and labeling information provided by the manufacturers or importers of the substance. Information such as how many companies have notified in a specific classification or non-classification group, and how many different categories of companies have notified for the specific substance is available on the system.

It has been a question in the previous years whether the Ministry would publish any information regarding the notifications and registrations under KKDIK and CLP regulations like ECHA does, and this website seems to be the answer to such questions. Although currently, only CLP notification information is available, there hasn’t been any mention in the announcement about what other data might be published in this system and if it’s only limited to CLP notification or not.

The system is only accessible from Turkey, however, it is expected to be accessible worldwide shortly. You can check the website out yourself from the link here: https://kimves.cevre.gov.tr/KIMVES

The directorate of the Revolving Fund of the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization has published the 2022 KKDİK fee on its website. Compared to 2021, the fees have increased by 20%. In 2021, th...

The directorate of the Revolving Fund of the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization has published the 2022 KKDİK fee on its website.

Compared to 2021, the fees have increased by 20%. In 2021, the joint submission fee was lesser than individual submission. The registration fee currently varies from 60 TL/€4  (for SME companies that jointly register 1-10 tonnage) to 18,000 TL/€ 1167 (for large size companies that individually register 1000+ tonnage substance) depending on tonnage band, the size of the company, and whether it is a joint or individual submission. This indicates the importance of joint registration for companies.

If you haven't pre-registered your substances yet, kindly do, so you can be part of SIEF and also to participate in joint registration.

Last Update: 2022-01-18