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Within the scope of the By-law, up to fifty percent of the energy costs of the wastewater treat-
ment plants operated in accordance with the legislation, and up to one hundred percent of the
reimbursement rate can be applied to the organizations that reuse the treated wastewater in
order to expand the reuse of treated wastewater according to the reuse rate.

Graph 46 Wastewater Treatment Plant Energy Incentive (MoEUCC, 2024)
1,200
1,000 1,034.00
800 710 795 839
600 628
400 231.4
200 153.06 186.81
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2020 2021 2022 2023
Payment Amount (million TL) Number of Facilities
By-law on Urban Waste Water Treatment: The By-law on Urban Wastewater Treatment, which
entered into force after being published in the Official Gazette dated 08/01 /2006 and numbe-
red 26047, regulates the procedures and principles regarding the collection, treatment and disc-
harge of urban wastewater and the prevention of the negative effects of wastewater discharge
from certain industrial sectors.
The “By-law on Identification of Sensitive Water Bodies and Areas Affecting These Bodies and
Improvement of Water Quality”, which aims to identify sensitive water areas for the implemen-
tation of the By-law on Urban Wastewater Treatment, was first published in the Official Gazette
dated 23.12.2016 and numbered 29927 and entered into force. The sensitive areas in the annex of
the relevant By-law were updated with the amendment published in the Official Gazette dated
30/12/2021 and numbered 31705 (2 repeated).
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In addition, due to the cancellation of the provisions “Concentration values or treatment effi-
ciencies will be applied.” under Annex IV tables of the By-law on Urban Wastewater Treatment
in the decision of the 6 Chamber of the Council of State with no. 2021/9696 and due to the
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fact that this issue caused problems in practice, the sections on treatment efficiency in Table
I and Table II were removed from the By-law and the By-law Amending the By-law on Urban
Wastewater Treatment was published in the Official Gazette dated 12/08/2023 and numbered
32393.
Communiqué on Water Pollution Control By-law on Sampling and Analysis Methods: The
purpose of this Communiqué, published on 10.10.2009 with number 27372, is to determine the
procedures and principles regarding the determination of the quality of the water environment,
the continuous or intermittent sampling of wastewater and/or water environments during
the discharge of domestic and industrial wastewater to wastewater infrastructure facilities or
discharge to receiving environments, and the measurement / analysis methods of the quality
parameters foreseen to be inspected in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Water
Pollution Control By-law.
Communiqué on Water Pollution Control By-law Administrative Procedures: This Commu-
niqué was prepared and published on 10 October 2009 with the number 27372 in order to regu-
late the administrative procedures and practices related to the responsibility, principles of ob-
taining permits and administrative procedures and practices stipulated by the By-law on Water
Pollution Control published in the Official Gazette dated 31/12/2004 and numbered 25687. The
Communiqué covers the principles of obtaining permission for the direct discharge of all kinds
of urban, domestic and/or industrial wastewater to the receiving environment.
Monitoring of wastewater from land-based fisheries facilities is also carried out within the fra-
mework of the communiqués in question. However, following the evaluation of the requests
and complaints received from the sector, the Communiqué on Sampling and Analysis Methods
and the Communiqué on Administrative Procedures were amended and entered into force after
being published in the Official Gazette dated 16/12/2022 and numbered 32045.

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