Law Amending the Soil Protection and Land Use Law and Certain Other Laws
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The law changes rules on rice cultivation distances, alcohol branding and promotion, and some tax treatment for Atatürk Forest Farm. Rice fields may now be located 500 meters from municipal development boundaries and 50 meters from homes in villages and neighborhoods, which matters for farmers, local authorities, and nearby residents. It also tightens alcohol marketing rules. Alcohol producers, importers, and marketers can no longer support events or publications using company names, brands, logos, packaging visuals, or similar identifiers. Retail and on-premise alcohol sellers have one year to remove prohibited brand materials from workplaces, while certain products must comply within three months or can no longer be placed on the market.
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Key Changes
- Sets updated distance rules for rice fields near city, district, village, and neighborhood settlements.
- Bans alcohol companies from supporting events or media content using company names, brands, logos, packaging visuals, or similar identifiers.
- Requires alcohol sales businesses and certain alcohol products to comply within transition periods of one year and three months.
Obligations
What this law requires
Rice fields must be located at least 500 meters from provincial and district municipal development boundaries and at least 50 meters from villages and neighborhoods, measured from the outer perimeter of the nearest house to the nearest point of the rice cultivation area.
Alcohol producers, importers, and marketers must not support any event, publication, or media sharing by using their trade names or their products’ brands, emblems, logos, packaging expressions, shapes, names, signs, or visuals.
Retail and on-premise alcohol sales workplaces must not display or keep alcohol product names, brands, logos, emblems, or packaging expressions, shapes, names, signs, or visuals inside or outside the workplace, in shop windows, in sales units, or in any event area.
A fermented alcoholic beverage brand must not be used as a distilled alcoholic beverage brand, and a distilled alcoholic beverage brand must not be used as a fermented alcoholic beverage brand.
Products covered by the fermented/distilled brand-use restriction must be brought into compliance within three months from the law’s entry into force; products not compliant after that period must not be placed on the market.