The purpose of this Law is to ensure the protection of the environment, which is a common asset for all living beings, in accordance with the principles of sustainable environment and sustainable development.

You can access the Law No. 2872 on Environment here.

The purpose of this Law is to ensure marine safety and prevent marine pollution by taking into account international law and the rights and obligations arising from national law.

a) To establish the principles of intervention and preparedness to eliminate or reduce, limit, and mitigate pollution risks originating from ships and coastal facilities in emergency situations,

b) To determine the principles for assessing and compensating the damage caused by the incident,

c) To establish the principles for fulfilling international obligations,

d) To define the authorities, duties, and responsibilities of individuals, institutions, organizations, ships, and facilities covered by the Law,

These are the objectives.

You can access Law No. 5312 on Emergency Measures and Compensation Principles for Pollution of the Seas with Oil and Other Harmful Substances here.

The purpose of this Regulation is to establish the necessary legal and technical principles to prevent water pollution in a manner consistent with sustainable development goals, ensuring the protection and optimal use of the country’s surface and groundwater resources potential. This Regulation covers the quality classifications and usage purposes of water environments, planning principles and prohibitions related to water quality protection, discharge principles and permit requirements, infrastructure related to discharges, and the procedures and principles for monitoring and supervising to prevent water pollution.

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The purpose of this Regulation is to control the emissions of smoke, fumes, dust, gases, vapors, and aerosols released into the atmosphere as a result of the operation of industrial and energy production facilities; to protect people and the environment from the dangers arising from air pollution; to address and eliminate the significant damage caused by air pollution to public and neighboring relations; and to establish the procedures and principles for preventing the occurrence of such adverse effects.

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The purpose of this Regulation is to manage waste oils from production to disposal as follows:

a) To prevent waste oils from being released into the environment in a way that causes direct or indirect harm,

b) To ensure their temporary storage, transportation, and disposal without harming the environment and human health,

c) To establish the necessary technical and administrative standards for the management of waste oils,

ç) To determine the procedures and principles for the establishment of temporary storage, treatment, and disposal facilities and the environmentally compatible management of these facilities.

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The purpose of this Regulation is to manage the disposal of waste through regular storage as follows:

a) To minimize the negative impacts of potential leachate and landfill gases on soil, air, groundwater, and surface waters to prevent environmental pollution,

b) To design appropriate base technical designs for different types of waste and to construct regular storage facilities,

c) To regulate the acceptance of waste into regular storage facilities,

ç) To manage the operation, closure, and post-closure control and maintenance processes of regular storage facilities,

d) To prevent negative impacts, including greenhouse gas effects, that may pose risks to the environment and human health during operation, closure, and post-closure maintenance processes,

e) To determine the technical and administrative aspects of the improvement, closure, and post-closure maintenance processes of existing regular storage facilities, as well as the general rules to be followed.

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The purpose of this Regulation is to regulate the management of vegetable oils from their formation to disposal without causing harm to the environment and human health, establish the necessary technical and administrative standards for their management, and define the principles, policies, and programs related to this.

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The purpose of this Regulation is to determine the quality of water used for swimming and recreational purposes in order to protect human health and the environment, and to ensure that these waters are protected from contamination by any pollutants, especially microbiological ones.

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The purpose of this Regulation is to ensure that necessary measures are taken to prevent disturbance and degradation of physical and mental health due to exposure to environmental noise, and to gradually implement the regulation. This includes determining levels of environmental noise exposure using assessment methods, preparing noise maps, acoustic reports, and environmental noise level assessment reports, informing the public about environmental noise and its effects, and based on the results of noise maps, acoustic reports, and environmental noise level assessment reports; preparing and implementing action plans to prevent and reduce noise, especially in areas where exposure to environmental noise could have harmful effects on human health and where maintaining environmental noise quality is necessary.

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The purpose of this Regulation is to define and establish air quality targets to prevent or reduce the harmful effects of air pollution on the environment and human health, to assess air quality based on defined methods and criteria, to maintain good air quality where it currently exists and to improve it where necessary, to collect sufficient information about air quality, and to ensure public awareness through alert thresholds.

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The purpose of this Regulation is to reduce and control the negative effects of pollutants such as smoke, fumes, dust, gases, vapors, and aerosols emitted into the outdoor air from heating facilities used in residential buildings, housing complexes, cooperatives, sites, schools, universities, hospitals, official offices, workplaces, social recreation facilities, industry, and similar locations on air quality.

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The purpose of this Regulation is to regulate the administrative and technical procedures and principles for the control and reduction of emissions that cause odors.

In this Regulation, the following terms are defined as:

a) Spatial or widespread odor source: Sources that usually fall under the definition of area sources, with defined dimensions but unknown waste air flow rates, such as solid waste disposal facilities, lagoons, areas where fertilizers are spread, compost piles without ventilation,

b) Detection threshold: The concentration at which 50% of individuals or a group of people exposed to the odor-causing substance can distinguish the odor,

c) Ministry: The Ministry of Environment and Urbanization,

ç) Operation: The entire facility for which the operator and/or owner is responsible for ensuring compliance with regulations,

d) Fugitive odor sources: Sources of odors that are difficult to locate, such as pipe flanges, unventilated openings, or valves, but emit unspecified quantities of odor,

e) Odor: The effect caused by volatile substances that stimulate the sense of smell and lead to the perception of odor,

f) Odor adaptation: The temporary change in an individual’s sensitivity to odor after repeated or continuous exposure,

g) Odor unit (OU): The quantity of odor-causing substance in which the physiological response at the detection threshold of a panel is equal to that of a unit reference odor mass in 1 m³ of neutral air under standard conditions,

ğ) Odor flow rate (qodor): The amount of odor-causing substance emitted per unit area per unit time,

h) Odor emission: Odorous gases emitted or released into the air from a point or area source,

ı) Odor threshold: The threshold concentration of an odor-causing substance expressed as 1 OU/m³,

i) Odorous gas: Gas containing odor-causing substances,

j) Odorous gas sample: A volumetric amount of odorous gas taken according to a sampling procedure, representing the odor and flow rate, and for which concentration is to be measured and evaluated,

k) Odor removal efficiency: The reduction in odor concentration or flow rate as a result of an odor removal measure,

l) Odor concentration: The number of OU per 1 m³ of gas under standard conditions,

m) Odor level: The logarithmic expression of odor concentration,

n) Odor intensity: A measure indicating the degree of stimulation of odor cells based on odor concentration,

o) Hedonic tone of odor: The condition of the odor being pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral for humans,

ö) Lead panelist: The person who manages the presentation of odorous gas samples diluted in different ratios to panelists during the measurement of odor concentration with an olfactometer,

p) Existing facility: Facilities established before the publication of this Regulation or those found suitable for establishment under Environmental Impact Assessment legislation,

r) Point odor source: Sources that emit odorous waste gases into the air through a fixed outlet, ventilation duct, or chimney,

s) Olfactometer: A device used to measure the concentration of an odorous gas sample by diluting it with neutral air in specific ratios, where the odor concentration is determined by presenting the diluted samples to panelists,

ş) Panel: A group of four panelists and a lead panelist who are presented with odorous gas samples diluted in different ratios during the measurement of odor concentration with an olfactometer,

t) Panelist: Individuals who are exposed to odorous gas samples diluted in different ratios during the measurement of odor concentration with an olfactometer,

u) Reference odor mass: A defined mass of a certified substance used as a reference for odor units (The reference substance for the odor unit is 123 micrograms of n-butanol. When this substance is vaporized into 1 m³ of neutral air under standard conditions, the resulting concentration is 0.040 micromol/mol),

ü) Standard conditions: 25 degrees Celsius (°C) and 1 atmosphere (atm) pressure,

v) Facility: Each activity and/or emission source that causes odor,

y) New facility: Facilities other than existing facilities,

z) Competent authority: The Ministry and the organizations to which the Ministry has delegated authority under Article 12 of the Environmental Law.

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The purpose of this Regulation is to establish the principles for taking necessary measures for the use of sludge in soil in alignment with sustainable development goals.

This Regulation covers the technical and administrative principles for the controlled use of domestic and urban wastewater treatment sludges in soil in a way that does not harm soil, plants, animals, and humans.

You can access the Regulation on the Use of Domestic and Urban Treatment Sludges in Soil here.

The purpose of this Regulation is to prevent soil pollution in the receiving environment, identify areas and sectors where pollution currently exists or is likely to occur, and determine the principles for the cleanup and monitoring of contaminated soils and sites in alignment with sustainable development goals.

This Regulation covers the technical and administrative procedures and principles related to the prevention of soil pollution, identification and registration of areas and sectors where pollution exists or is likely to occur, and the cleanup and monitoring of contaminated soils and sites.

You can access the Regulation on Soil Pollution Control and Point Source Contaminated Sites here.

Purpose

ARTICLE 1 – (1) The purpose of this Regulation is to establish the conditions, certification, and procedural and substantive requirements for those providing environmental management services.

Scope

ARTICLE 2 – (1) This Regulation covers the conditions, obligations, working procedures and principles, qualification certificate applications and evaluations, issuance, monitoring, suspension, and cancellation of qualifications for environmental personnel, environmental engineers, environmental management units, and environmental consultancy firms working in accordance with the Environmental Inspection Regulation published in the Official Gazette No. 27061 dated 21/11/2008, and the Environmental Permit and License Regulation published in the Official Gazette No. 29115 dated 10/9/2014.

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