G/TBT/N/TUR/200  
23 June 2022  
(22-4864) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  TÜRKIYE  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
Ministry  of Trade  
DG Product Safety and Inspection  
T.C. Ticaret Bakanligi  
Sögütözü Mah. 2176. Sk.  
No:63, Çankaya  
Ankara, 06530  
Tel: +(90 312) 204 89 75; +(90 312) 204 89 52  
Fax: +(90 312) 212 87 68; +(90 312) 204 86 38  
Email: tbt@ticaret.gov.tr  
Website: http://www.teknikengel.gov.tr  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Food 
additives  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Turkish Food 
Codex Regulation on Food Additives; (355 page(s), in Turkish)  
6. Description of content:  This Regulation provides for:  
(a) Lists of approved food additives as set out in Annexes II and III,  
(b) conditions of use of food additives in foods, including food additi ves and food enzymes 
as covered by Regulation on food enzymes (OG:24.2.2017 – 29989), and food flavourings 
as covered by Regulation on flavourings and certain food ingredients with flavouring 
properties for use in and on foods (OG:29.12.2011 - 28157 reiter ated number 3)  
(c) rules on the labelling of food additives sold as such.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health or safety  G/TBT/N/TUR/200  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
· Veterinary, Phytosanitary, Food and Feed Law No: 5996  
· Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 
December 2008 on food additives  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  15 October 2022  
Proposed date of entry into force:  This Regulation enters into force on the date of its 
publication.  
Within 6 months of the publication date of this Regulation, food business operators in -
service shall comply with the provisions of this Regulation;  
a) for the sujuk contained in the sub -category numbered 08.3.1 in ANNEX -II, 
b) for the local halva contained in the sub -category numbered 16 in ANNEX -II, 
c) for sujuk, Maraş ice cream, local halva, tahini, kome, pestil, bastik, walnut sujuk and 
similar local products in Annex VI, and T urkish cream regulated under Turkish Food Codex 
Cream and Turkish Cream Communiqué.  
10. Final date for comments:  22 August 2022  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Ministry of Trade  
DG Product Safety and Inspection  
T.C. Ticaret Bakanligi  
Sögütözü Mah. 2176. Sk.  
No:63, Çankaya  
Ankara, 06530  
Tel: +(90 312) 204 89 37; +(90 312) 204 89 52  
Fax: +(90 312) 212 87 68; +(90 312) 204 86 38  
Email: tbt@ticaret.gov.tr  
Website: http://www.teknikengel.gov.tr  
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