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Table A3.3 Export prohibitions notified to the WTO, 2022
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Description: Natural flower bulbs; Wood; Liquidambar orientalis; Pterocarya carpinifolia; Datca dates; Plants of olive, fig (except species certified domestically that are registered and published in the National Species List), hazelnut, pistachio, and grapevine (sultanas seedless); Sahlep (powder and of all sorts)
Rationale: Environment
Legal basis(date of entry into force): Export Regime Decree (22/12/1995)
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Table A3.3 Export prohibitions notified to the WTO, 2022
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Description: Ozone depleting substances
Rationale: Health, compliance with international convention
Legal basis(date of entry into force): Regulation on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (07/04/2017); Communiqué No. 2014/1 on Export of Ozone depleting Substances (24/01/2014)
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Table A3.4 Exports requiring a licence, 2022
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Description(changes to legal/regulatory requirements since January 2016): Products subject to Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
Authority responsible: Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change
Rationale: Protect human health and the environment from the negative effects of persistent organic pollutants
Automatic/non automatic: non-automatic
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Table A3.4 Exports requiring a licence, 2022
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Description(changes to legal/regulatory requirements since January 2016): Living or non-living boars, wolves, jackals, foxes, martens, badgers, snakes, turtles, lizards, and identifiable parts of and clothing produced from them; Fisheries products subject to "prohibition derived from the principles of fishery" (including leeches) (Law No. 1380 of 22 March 1971 as amended by Law No. 7191 of 6 November 2019, and Communiqué No. 5/1 on Regulating Fisheries for Commercial Purposes (Official Gazette (2020), No. 31221, 22 August))
Authority responsible: Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Rationale: CITES[Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)] requirements
Automatic/non automatic: non-automatic
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Table A3.4 Exports requiring a licence, 2022
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Description(changes to legal/regulatory requirements since January 2016): Racehorses
Authority responsible: Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Rationale: Biodiversity. Health and standards requirements
Automatic/non automatic: non-automatic
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Table A3.4 Exports requiring a licence, 2022
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Description(changes to legal/regulatory requirements since January 2016): Export of natural flower bulbs subject to quota or any other kind of restriction
Authority responsible: Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Rationale: CITES requirements. Biodiversity protection of environment and species
Automatic/non automatic: non-automatic
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Table A3.4 Exports requiring a licence, 2022
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Description(changes to legal/regulatory requirements since January 2016): Natural mushrooms (only exports to EU countries)
Authority responsible: Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Rationale: Biodiversity. Compatibility with standards
Automatic/non automatic: non-automatic
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Table A3.4 Exports requiring a licence, 2022
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Description(changes to legal/regulatory requirements since January 2016): Live tuna fish (Thynnus thunnus)
Authority responsible: Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Rationale: ICCAT[International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)] requirements
Automatic/non automatic: non-automatic
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Table A3.4 Exports requiring a licence, 2022
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Description(changes to legal/regulatory requirements since January 2016): Forest-tree seeds and other breeding materials
Authority responsible: Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change
Rationale: ..
Automatic/non automatic: ..
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Table A3.5 Communiqués on product safety and inspection, 2022
Communiqué: 2022/1
Overview: Industrial products within the scope of some Turkish Standards, which are at the same time mandated in the domestic market, are subject to inspection by the Turkish Standards Institution (TSE) on behalf of the Ministry of Trade. The inspections are carried out in respect of minimum health, safety, and protection of environment standards, to provide adequate information to the consumers.
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