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Training has been provided to measurement and sampling personnel of laboratories authorized
by MoEUCC that perform flue gas emission measurement and ambient air (immission) measure-
ment since 2015, and to reporting personnel since 2018. Personnel who pass the exam as a result
of these trainings are certified. As of the end of 2023, 2,420 personnel have been granted Emissi-
on and Immission Measurements, Measurement and Sampling certificates, and 1,138 personnel
have been granted Emission and Immission Measurements Reporting Personnel certificates.

H.7.4. Waste Tracking Service Providers

Within the scope of the Communiqué on the Transportation of Waste on the Highways, which
was published in the Official Gazette dated 20.03.2015 and numbered 29301 and entered into
force, the procedures and principles regarding the determination of the qualifications of Waste
Tracking Service Providers (ATSS) have been determined. It has been revised and updated with
the approval of the Minister dated 24/07/2020 and numbered 157295. The purpose of these
procedures and principles is to control the transportation of wastes specified in the relevant
legislation from the waste producer to the disposal facility. It is to prevent the wastes from being
dumped indiscriminately by controlling the transportation of wastes received from the waste
producer by licensed companies to the waste disposal facility without loss. Within the scope of
the procedures and principles regarding the determination of the qualifications of Waste Trac-
king Service Providers, 4 (four) companies have been granted qualification certificates.

H.7.5. Cleaning of Soil Pollution

“By-law on Control of Soil Pollution and Point Source Contaminated Areas” was published in the
Official Gazette dated 08.06.2010 and numbered 27605 and entered into force. Based on Article
34 of the said By-law, “Communiqué on Certificate of Competence for Control of Soil Pollution
and Cleaning of Point Source Contaminated Areas” was published in the Official Gazette dated
17.06.2011 and numbered 27967 and entered into force. The communiqué covers the conditions
to be sought in institutions/organizations, working procedures and principles, evaluation and
inspection of applications. However, the obligations of the companies that receive the certificate
within the scope of the communiqué started as of 08.06.2015. There are a total of 14 (fourteen)
institutions/organizations operating within the scope of this document as of December 2023.

H.7.6. Risk Assessment for Prevention of Pollution of Marine Environment

Pursuant to the “Implementation By-law of the Law on Emergency Response and Damage
Compensation in Pollution of the Marine Environment by Oil and Other Harmful Substances”
published in the Official Gazette dated 21/10/2006 and numbered 26326, the “Communiqué
on the Authorization of Institutions and Organizations that will Prepare Risk Assessment and
Emergency Response Plans for Pollution of the Marine Environment by Oil and Other Harmful
Substances” was published in the Official Gazette dated 12.12.2014 and numbered 29203 and
entered into force. The communiqué covers the conditions to be sought in institutions/organi-
zations that will prepare risk assessment and emergency response plans, working procedures
and principles, and issues related to the evaluation and inspection of applications. The applica-

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