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System Benefits;

ENVIRONMENT SOCIAL ECONOMICAL GLOBAL
y Reduction in y Additional y More efficient y Compliance with
environmental employment and and sustainable the Circular
pollution support to the recovery system economy concept
economy
y Reduction of y Recycled materials y Supporting
carbon emissions y Making the with high economic Türkiye’s
participation of value participation in
y Increasing the citizens in the global sustainable
economic life of recycling system y Cost reduction development action
landfill sites in environmental
visible
services of
y Increased municipalities
environmental y Reduction in the
awareness
need for primary
raw materials and
reduction in raw
material imports

With the Law dated 24/12/2020 and numbered 7261, the Türkiye Environment Agency (TÜÇA)
was established and started its activities in order to carry out activities for the establishment,
operation, monitoring and supervision of the deposit management system on a national scale.
TÜÇA published the Procedures and Principles on Mandatory Deposit Management System Imp-
lementation in April 2022. In the following process, the said Procedures and Principles needed
to be detailed in administrative, technical and financial matters and were revised and published
with the number 273 dated 01/12/2022.

For the mandatory deposit management system to be established in Türkiye, TÜÇA has been
defined as the system administrator and 2 different operational application structures (Infor-
mation Management and Field Management) have been envisaged for the applications. Within
the scope of the Deposit Management System, the online “Deposit Information Management
System (DBYS)”, which will monitor and manage the system in a secure and transparent manner
from end to end, was established and started to be operated. With DBYS, firstly, the registration
procedures of the marketers and label/packaging producers were carried out.

The packages within the scope of the system were marked with the special ink Deposit Manage-
ment System Mark (DBYS logo and product barcode) and started to be produced and recorded
as traceable and identifiable. As of 2025, it is planned to make the Deposit Field Management
System infrastructure ready, which includes the establishment and operation of deposit return
points, collection, transport and recovery of empty packages with deposits from these points,
and to make the system available to our citizens and to expand it through pilot applications.

Pilot applications were carried out in the Main Service Building of the MoEUCC and Kızılcaha-
mam District of Ankara Province in order to test the functioning of the system before the transi-
tion to national scale implementation in June 2022. Information, announcements and news on
the Mandatory Deposit Management System applications, stakeholders’ registration procedu-
res and screens where they switch to user modules can be accessed via dbys.gov.tr.
Environmental Protection Works

The Environmental Protection Directorate has undertaken the following duties: “To carry out ac-
tivities to improve the environment, to carry out audits within the framework of the zero waste
and deposit management system and the relevant legislation for the recovery of the environ-
ment, to carry out works and procedures regarding administrative sanctions in case of violation
or breach of the legislation, to prepare, develop and ensure the implementation of audit plans
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