Regulation on the Protection and Use of Agricultural Lands
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This 2026 Turkish regulation implements the 2005 Soil Protection and Land Use Law (No. 5403). It establishes detailed procedures for classifying agricultural lands through soil surveys, determining when non-agricultural use is permitted, and protecting prime farmland. The regulation creates the TAD Portal as a centralized digital system for all applications and approvals. It defines what constitutes 'agricultural purpose structures' (such as greenhouses, barns, storage facilities, and certain renewable energy installations attached to farms) that do not require full land-use integrity checks. Non-agricultural use requests must demonstrate no viable alternative sites, no disruption to agricultural land integrity, and no conflict with irrigation or drinking water basin projects. The regulation sets specific size thresholds for classifying land types and restricts changes to registered orchard land status for five years.
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Key Changes
- Establishes TAD Portal as mandatory centralized digital platform for all agricultural land use applications and soil survey submissions
- Defines specific agricultural-purpose structures (greenhouses, mandıra, un değirmeni, bağ evi, certain GES) exempt from agricultural land integrity requirement
- Sets size thresholds: local marginal lands under 2 ha treated as same class as surrounding land; lands under 0.5 ha orchards or 0.3 ha greenhouses classified as marginal
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