Plant Quarantine Regulation
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The regulation sets Turkey’s plant health rules for importing, exporting, transiting, and moving plants, plant products, wood packaging, and other high-risk materials through customs and free zones. It affects agricultural importers and exporters, seed and plant producers, logistics operators, customs brokers, free zone users, and companies using wooden packaging in trade. Businesses must use the Plant Quarantine Registration and Tracking System for entry and exit procedures where available, submit plant health documents and shipment notices within set deadlines, and allow official checks by inspectors. Shipments can be stopped, returned, treated, sampled, tested, or destroyed if documents are false, goods do not match declarations, banned products are found, or harmful organisms are detected.
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Key Changes
- Creates a detailed plant quarantine framework for imports, exports, transit, and free zone movements of plants, plant products, wood packaging, and other regulated materials.
- Requires entry and exit procedures to be handled through the Plant Quarantine Registration and Tracking System where available, with electronic communication and document handling.
- Sets a three-step official control process: document checks, declaration checks, and plant health inspections, including sampling and laboratory analysis when needed.
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Obligations
What this law requires
Use the Plant Quarantine Registration and Tracking System (BKKTS) for Turkey entry, import, transit, and exit procedures for plants, plant products, and other regulated materials, unless BKKTS cannot be used and the General Directorate approves physical processing.
Submit official-control applications to the competent directorate either in person with wet signature or electronically with electronic signature.
Provide any information and documents requested by the directorate when those documents cannot be obtained electronically during BKKTS-based procedures.
Allow inspectors to enter any place where regulated plants, plant products, or other materials are located, inspect transport vehicles, and take samples without payment.
During official controls, provide all assistance and facilitation required by inspectors, ensure the minimum control conditions determined by the Ministry, and take additional safety measures when necessary.