Below is a summary of the main regulations directly relevant to a business that manufactures and exports in Türkiye. The list is not exhaustive; its purpose is to illustrate the scope of the field.
1. Türkiye
Arrangement
Scope
Product Safety and Technical Regulations Law
This framework law regulates the placing of products on the market in accordance with safety and technical regulations. The roles of manufacturers, importers, authorized representatives, and distributors are defined separately. The recall of unsafe products from consumers is mandatory; a traceability mechanism is envisioned requiring the seller in the supply chain to keep records of who they purchased the product from and who they sold it to. Electronic commerce is also subject to regulation, and manufacturers or importers are held liable for damages caused by unsafe products.
SEA Regulation
Classification, labeling, and packaging of substances and mixtures. The Turkish equivalent of GHS.
KKDİK Regulation
Registration, evaluation, authorization, and restriction of chemicals. This covers companies that manufacture or import substances exceeding a certain tonnage annually. Mixtures are not registered; however, each substance they contain is registered separately if it exceeds a certain threshold. The registration schedule is tiered according to tonnage and hazard class.
Safety data sheet principles
The standard structure involves 16 sections; the document must be prepared by a certified Chemical Assessment Expert, and the expert's knowledge must be included in section 16.
CE marking and conformity assessment
Market surveillance and control, procedures and principles relating to conformity assessment bodies and notified bodies.
Packaging and waste legislation
Notification of packaging placed on the market, recycling targets and deposit schemes.
Dangerous goods transportation
Regulations for land, sea, and air transportation, and the responsibilities of a security advisor.
2. European Union
Arrangement
Scope
General Product Safety Regulations
The horizontal safety framework, effective from 13 December 2024, covers all non-food consumer products and fills gaps in sectoral legislation. It requires structured risk assessment, specific obligations for distance selling and online marketplaces, standard recall notification, and direct communication with the consumer. Manufacturers located outside the Union are required to have a party responsible for product safety within the Union. The Commission published guidance on implementation in November 2025.
CLP Statute
Classification, labeling and packaging. New hazard classes — endocrine disruptors and persistent, bioaccumulative, mobile and toxic substance classes — apply from 1 May 2025 for substances and from 1 May 2026 for mixtures .
REACH Regulation
Substance registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction; candidate lists and substance notifications within items.
RoHS and WEEE
Hazardous substance restrictions and waste obligations for electrical and electronic equipment.
Ecodesign Charter and Digital Product Passport
Product group-specific requirements are being implemented gradually through delegated decisions. The Commission has launched the central registration system for passport records and the testing environment in the summer of 2026.
Border Carbon Regulation
The transition period ended on January 1, 2026. Imports made in 2026 will incur financial obligations; the first declaration and certificate delivery will be made in 2027.
Deforestation Regulations
Duty of care for specific commodities and products. The implementation schedule is phased according to business size.
Battery Regulations
Batteries and accumulators: content, labeling, recycling and care obligations; battery passport.
3. Other markets
United States: Chemical inventory and new substance notifications, consumer product safety regulations, state-level warning obligations, and conflict mineral reporting.
United Kingdom: Its own conformity mark with a diverged chemical registration and classification regime after Brexit.
Far East: Country-by-country chemical inventories, mandatory labeling and safety data sheets in the local language.
Gulf countries: GHS-based regional standard; requirement for documents to be presented in two languages.
The map's main message
The sheer length of these tables illustrates why compliance cannot be managed solely from the memory of a single expert. Each row represents a set of rules with its own version, its own schedule, its own threshold, and its own document format. It is impossible for a single expert to track all of these simultaneously for all products.
The only manageable approach is to make the rules defined, versioned, and queryable within the system ; and to shift the expert's role from data collection to decision-making.