Turkey’s environment ministry has amended the KKDIK law and thus set new registration deadlines. The Ministry published the corresponding legal text in the Official Gazette on December 23 (in Turkish). With the amendment to the law, the Turkish government is granting companies exactly the same deadlines for substance registration that…
The Turkish Ministry of the Environment has proposed extending the registration deadlines for REACH. The move is the ministry’s response to demands from industry representatives to give companies more time to register substances. The long delay that the Turks want to grant companies is a surprise. The following new deadlines…
The European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) has criticized the slow pace of substance registration under Turkey REACH (KKDIK) and called for the KKDIK registration deadlines to be postponed by at least two years. The Association stated that so far, only 1,400 substances have been registered, with about 7,000 still pending….
Turkish REACH (KKDIK in its Turkish abbreviation) requires that all chemical products manufactured in Turkey or imported into the country in a quantity of one ton or more have a uniform registration deadline of December 2023. A failure to comply means that a company faces the threat of blocked imports….
According to the Turkish Ministry of Environment and Urbanization (MoEU), about 48,000 preregistrations have been submitted so far. Nevertheless, companies have raised concerns about recurring problems with the software of the Turkish ministry (KKS) over the past few months. The software is not compatible with the IT tool used for REACH. The ministry wants to drive quick…
IT issues have caused delays for the preregistration of chemicals as part of Turkey’s REACH (KKDIK). The regulation took effect at the end of 2017. According to plans, preregistrations were to close by the end of next year, and all chemicals were to be registered in 2023. Chemical Watch cited…
The Turkish Ministry of Environment and Urbanization (MoEU) has now accredited a total of seven institutes to train chemists as experts in chemical safety and evaluation (KDU in Turkish). The requirements for accreditation are considerable. They are described and defined in Annex 18 of the Turkish REACH regulation (KKDIK). The…