Procedures and Principles Regarding the Implementation of the KKDIK Regulation Has Been Published.

Procedures and Principles Regarding the Implementation of the KKDIK Regulation Has Been Published.

The long-awaited procedures and principles for the registration process of chemicals have been published on the website of the Republic of Turkiye Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change on August 12, 2025.

Changes have been made in many areas, such as pre-registration, registration, temporary registration, registration requirements, updating registrations, the SIEF process, determining lead registrants, and establishing working committees.

Pre-Registration Dates

• All potential registrants shall submit the pre-SIEF for their substances to the Ministry via the Chemical Registration System (KKS) by October 31, 2025 and become SIEF participants.
• For substances to be manufactured and/or imported for the first time after 10/31/2025, the pre-SIEFs created by potential registrants shall be submitted to the Ministry via the Chemical Registration System (KKS) within 30 days following their placing on the market, and potential registrants shall become SIEF participants.

Identification of Lead Registrant

• The lead registrants of substances placed on the market before the publication date of the Procedures and Principles shall be determined until 31/12/2025 at the latest.
• The lead registrants of substances to be placed on the market for the first time after the publication date of these Procedures and Principles shall be determined within the first six months following the placing on the market.
• The determination of the Lead Registrants is primarily based on volunteerism. In case there is no voluntary company, a Lead Registrant is appointed by the Ministry by taking the opinion of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) by considering criteria such as tonnage range, available data, company size. Work is initiated to identify a company among the manufacturers/importers of the substance as the leading company.
  

  Temporary Registration

  • In case the Lead Registrant is unable to fulfill its obligations regarding full registration, it shall make a temporary registration by submitting the data in Annex-1 of the Procedures and Principles to the Ministry until 31/03/2026.
  • Following the temporary registration of the Lead Registrant, member companies shall submit their member registration entries to the Ministry through the Chemical Registration System (CRS) until 30/09/2026.
  • In case the companies that will submit the registration file separately cannot fulfill the obligations related to full registration, they shall make a temporary registration by submitting the data in Annex-1 of the Procedures and Principles to the Ministry through the Chemical Registration System (KKS) until 31/03/2026.
  • The data in Annex-1 of the Procedures and Principles shall be entered into the Chemical Registration System (CRS) by a chemical assessment specialist (CDE) and the certificate of the chemical assessment specialist shall be added to the system.
  • The provisions of the Regulation on registration fees included in the Ministry’s Revolving Fund Unit Price List are applied during the temporary registration process.

  Completion of the registration process

  • If the data required for the full registration file cannot be obtained from publicly available non-copyrighted global data sources by the companies or Lead Registrant who will submit a separate registration file, this shall be submitted to the Ministry with detailed justification
  • The Ministry shall evaluate the stated justification and notify the relevant party of its decision on the request for additional time.
  • The additional period to be granted by the Ministry is maximum two years after the last registration date determined for the tonnage range of the substance. In the event that the data cannot be provided at the end of the additional periods, registration approval/rejection is carried out by the Ministry for the relevant substance following the evaluation of the reasons submitted by the Chemical Advisory Group.
  
  

  New Groups Established Under the Coordination of the Ministry

  Chemicals Science Group

  • Informing and evaluating the current questions and problems related to the work and activities within the scope of chemicals management
  • To work on the training processes of chemicals
  • It fulfills its duties to evaluate the issues identified and unresolved in the Chemicals Advisory Group.

  Chemicals Advisory Group

  • To consult on the current situation, planned activities and international developments within the scope of Chemicals Management
  • To advise on the determination, monitoring and evaluation of plans, policies, strategies and actions related to chemicals management
  • It fulfills its duties to evaluate the issues identified and unresolved in the Chemicals Scientific Group.

  Safety Data Sheets

  • Safety data sheets are uploaded by the supplier to the Ministry’s special program related to safety data sheets.
  • Under the 16th heading of the safety data sheets to be prepared within the scope of the Regulation and within the framework of the headings in Annex-2, the contact information of the chemical assessment specialist who prepared the safety data sheet and the date and number of the document are written.

     

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