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Various restrictions/prohibitions have already been imposed on 64 chemical substances/subs-
tance groups within the scope of KKDİK By-law. For example, restrictions on azobol colourants
and nonylphenols in textile products, nickel and cadmium in jewellery, benzene, polycyclic-aro-
matic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and phthalates in toys, chloroform in surface cleaners, acrylamide in
joint sealants and ammonium nitrate in fertilisers can be given as examples.

One of the ultimate goals in chemicals management is to ensure the control of the risks of hi-
gh-significance substances supplied to the market by substituting them with safer substances
in an economically and technologically appropriate manner. This constitutes an important step
in transferring concepts such as cleaner production and green production from theory to prac-
tice in Türkiye. As a result of the transition to the best production technologies for the restriction
and replacement of chemicals with substitutes, the rate of pollution in waste, emissions and
wastewater will be reduced.

E.3. Chemicals Data System (KİMVES)

An inventory of electronic notifications sent to the MoEUCC by manufacturers or importers of
hazardous chemicals since 2014, which contain information on the classification and labelling
of the hazardous chemical, has been created and made publicly accessible through the Chemi-
cals Data System (KİMVES) (https://kimves.cevre.gov.tr/KIMVES/). Here, the hazard classification
information and labelling information declared by chemical manufacturer/importer companies
for approximately 20 thousand different substances can be accessed.

According to the first paragraph of Article 43 of the “By-law on Classification, Labelling and Pa-
ckaging of Substances and Mixtures (By-law on SEA)” published in the Official Gazette dated
11/12/2013 and numbered 28848 (repeated), the MoEUCC is tasked with establishing and ma-
intaining a classification and labelling inventory in the form of a database. The Chemicals Data
System (KİMVES) established within this scope constitutes one of the important outputs of the
By-law on SEA.

The classification and labelling inventory in KİMVES includes categories of how chemical subs-
tances are classified by the companies manufacturing or importing them in terms of their phy-
sico-chemical, human health and environmental hazards according to the rules set out in the
SEA By-law, and the hazard statements, hazard signs and warning codes that should be included
on the labels of substances according to these hazard categories. Currently, 94,085 classification
and labelling notifications sent for approximately 20,000 different substances are published in
KİMVES and the database is expanding every day with the notifications sent by companies.

The classification and labelling inventory provides a rich source of information on how industri-
alists classify chemicals according to existing rules and also shows how firms classify the same
substance differently. The information provided by industrialists within the scope of classifi-
cation and labelling notification is declarative, i.e. it is published in the inventory as submitted
to the Chemicals Registration System without any quality or conformity check. Officially valid
classification and labelling information for approximately 4,000 hazardous chemicals is given
in Table 3 in Annex-6 of the SEA By-law, and the hazards, labelling and packaging information
of other substances not included in the table are determined by the manufacturers/importers/
marketers according to the rules in the same By-law and its annexes.

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