About the Product/Service Category Determination Process
In an official letter from the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization to the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB), it was stated that a national environmental labeling system has been established in our country with the Environmental Labeling Regulation, which was published in the Official Gazette dated October 19, 2018, and numbered 30570; and that the Ministry is carrying out studies to reward products/services with environmental labels in order to encourage products/services with reduced environmental impacts throughout their life cycle and to provide consumers with accurate, non-misleading, and scientifically based information about the environmental performance of products/services.
Within the scope of the regulation, on 13.05.2019, on the Ministry's website (https://cevreetiketi.csb.gov.tr/Following applications made in accordance with the published environmental label criteria for textile, ceramic coating, and cleaning paper product groups, companies whose applications were found suitable have begun to be entitled to receive the title of environmental label user.
In accordance with Article 6, paragraph 2 of the Environmental Labeling Regulation, the Turkish Environmental Labeling System, implemented according to TS EN ISO 14024: Type I Environmental Labelling, Principles and Methods standards, enables consumers to obtain information about the environmental performance of products and services; and businesses can enhance their brand value by documenting the importance they place on environmental performance.
Measures to expand the environmental labeling system in our country are defined in the Eleventh Development Plan (2019-2023), the 2020 Presidential Program, and the Strategic Plan of the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization. Accordingly, efforts to increase the number of product/service groups with defined environmental criteria are being carried out within the Ministry in accordance with TS EN ISO 14024 standards. In accordance with these standards, a study should be conducted on potential product categories and the state of the market, and the product/service category selection process should be discussed with relevant parties.
Accordingly, the possible product/service categories and information form for determining environmental label criteria are enclosed; please prioritize the information forms for the 3 (three) product/service groups for which you request the determination of environmental label criteria, from among the possible categories included in the enclosed list and the new product/service group categories that your company may propose, and submit them in Word format in the attached document by July 10, 2020. eda.guneysu@tobb.org.tr; Please send it to this address.
