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REGULATION CONCERNING THE SUBJECTION OF WOODEN PACKAGE 
MATERIALS TO HEAT TREATMENT PROCESS AND THEIR MARKING  
 
 
CHAPTER ONE  
Purpose, Scope, Basis and Definitions  
 
Purpose  
ARTICLE 1 – (1) The objective of this Regulation is to determine the necessary methods 
and basis in  order to prevent the transmission and spreading of pest organisms through wooden 
package materials.  
 
Scope  
ARTICLE 2 – (1) This Regulation covers, in order to prevent the spread of harmful 
organisms carried with packaging materials made of wood, principles regarding the heat 
treatment application and ISPM 15 marking and traceability marking on wooden packaging 
materials s uch as pallets, crates, boxes, stacking boards, cable reels and coil reels to be used in 
export, issuance of permit certificates, licensed businesses , non -permitted businesses , suppliers, 
users, HT/DH heat treatment furnace installation permit and marking apparatus sales permit, 
inspection and responsibilities of the businesses  and the inspection of wooden packaging 
materials.  
(2) This Regulation does not cover the authorities, duties and responsibilities in the 
provisions specified in Articles 4 and 5 of t he Law No. 5531 published in the Official Gazette 
dated 8/7/2006 and numbered 26222. All permits and inspections regarding the production 
stages of wooden packaging materials made of wood, such as cutting, sawing, selecting, 
stacking, turning, placing, com bining, hammering and drying after the production stages, are 
out of the scope of this Regulation. It covers the principles regarding the application of the 
provisions of the first paragraph of this article only to the finished wooden packaging materials 
and the elimination of harmful organisms.  
(3) In order to obtain the wooden packaging material marking permission document 
specified in Annex -8; It is not obligatory to have the machinery equipment needed for the 
processes such as cutting, sawing, selectin g, stacking, turning, placing, combining, hammering 
the raw wood product used in the production stages of the wooden packaging material, and to 
be a wooden packaging material producer. Only by installing a heat treatment furnace, a permit 
can be obtained f or heat treatment application and ISPM 15 marking in accordance with the 
provisions of this Regulation.  
(4) Businesses  that trade wooden packaging materials for domestic use are out of the 
scope of this Regulation. These businesses  do not apply to obtain a  wooden packaging material 
supplier registration certificate to be registered with the Ministry. The Ministry does not issue 
a wooden packaging material supplier registration certificate for domestic use.  
(5) The following wooden packaging materials are outside the scope of this Regulation: 
Traceability marks are not made on them with heat treatment application and ISPM 15 marking.  
a) Wooden packaging material made of wood of 6 mm or less thickness,  
b) wooden packaging material made with fully treated wood, created by adhesive, heat or 
pressure, or a combination of these such as plywood, particle board, fiberboard, oriented strand 
board -osb, veneer -based boards;  
c) Wine and alcohol barrel heated during production,  
d) gift boxes of wine, cigars and other  goods processed and/or produced in order to be 
pest free;  2 
 e) Wood dust and Wooden wool  
f) Wood components permanently attached to cargo vehicles or containers.  
 
Basis  
ARTICLE 3 - (1) This Regulation has been prepared on the basis of Articles 15, 34 and 
38 of the Veterinary Services, Plant Health, Food and Feed Law dated 11/6/2010 and numbered 
5996.  
 
Definitions  
ARTICLE 4 - (1) In this regulation;  
a) Wood Round wood, timber, wooden, wood particle or package auxiliary material, to 
be with or  without shell  
b) Wooden Packaging Materials: Wood or wooden products including package auxiliary 
material such as  pallets, crates, cases, boxes, dunnage, cable reels and coil reels which are used 
in protecting or supporting goods,  
c) Ministry Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry  
d) Computer aided automation system: The software system that allows to enter the name 
and / or title of the business  where the heat treatment application is made, the date and time and 
batch number of the heat treatment application, furnace number, the type of wooden packaging 
material in pieces or m³ and that can control all other furnace equipment, camera system, 
transfer data from temperature gauges in the heat treatment furnace at one -minute intervals, and 
automatically record all this information.  
d) Disassembled wooden packaging material: Each wooden part component used in the 
production of materials such as stacki ng and support boards, which are used on their own 
without being combined with any other component, and wooden packaging materials such as 
crates, boxes, cables and coil reels other than pallets,  
e) Disassembled wooden packaging material volume: The volume  (width x length x 
height = ……m³) of the disassembled wooden packaging material, which is obtained by 
multiplying the values in centimeters (cm) of the width, length and height,  
f) Inspection: Inspections based on the permit document within the scope of th is 
Regulation, with at least two ISPM 15 control officers, with and without permit, supplier, user, 
HT/DH heat treatment furnace installation permit and marking apparatus sales permit, and 
wood packaging materials inspections,  
g) General directorate: Gener al Directorate of Food and Control,  
ğ) Customs bonded area: Land, railway, air customs gates, internal customs which are 
under the supervision, control, authority and responsibility of the customs administration as 
well as places that are physically separated from or deemed to be in other places and areas, at 
the maritime customs gates sea and coastal areas, including the port area and anchorage areas 
determined by the relevant port regulations, along with these places,  
h) Security hologram: For woode n packaging materials that have been subjected to heat 
treatment in accordance with the provisions of this Regulation by businesses  with permits 
obtained from the provincial directorate or directorate revolving fund businesses , one -minute 
temperature data has been recorded by giving a batch number to the computer -controlled 
automation system, ready for sale ISPM 15 marking and traceability mark has been made, two 
identical holograms with the same serial number, which are affixed separately on the front side  
of two one -page heat treatment printouts from the one -minute temperature data from the 
beginning to the end of the heat treatment application, only for the period of at least thirty 
minutes uninterrupted stay at 56 °C and above and that cannot be moved to  another place after 
affixing,  3 
 ı) HT/DH heat treatment furnace installation permit: In accordance with the provisions of 
this Regulation, the document specified in Annex 18 issued by the General Directorate for 
businesses  that will perform heat treatment on wooden packaging materials and will establish 
a heat treatment furnace as HT or DH, computer -controlled automation system, radio 
frequency, microwave or other heating system.  
i) IPPC: International Plant Protection Conv ention  
j) Heat treatment furnace:  
(DH) Dielectric heating method applied furnace; Structure with a volume of 5 m³ having 
minimum thickness that can be used with a heating system such as microwave, radio frequency 
and computer -controlled automation system that allows the wooden packaging materials with 
a thickness not exceeding 20 cm to be heated to achieve a temperature of at least 60 °C, 
including the surface temperature, for at least one minute,  
(HT) Furnace  with dry air or steam method; Heating system t hat allows the wood 
packaging materials to be heated to achieve a minimum temperature of 56 °C, including the 
temperature of the midpoint of the wood thickness, for at least thirty minutes uninterruptedly, 
and conventional furnace used with a computer -controlled automation system with a minimum 
volume of 50 m³, capable of heat treatment,  
k) Heat treatment furnace volume: The volume of the heat treatment furnace, expressed 
as m³, obtained by multiplying the values in centimeters (cm) of the width, length and  height 
of the interior (furnace volume: width x length x height = ……m³),  
l) Heat treatment operator: A real person who attended the 'Heat Treatment Operator 
Training' organized by the directorate or the provincial directorate about heat treatment 
applica tions and ISPM 15 marking and traceability mark, and who was successful and was 
issued the 'Heat Treatment Operator Certificate' in Annex -9. 
m) Heat treatment application:  
It is the heating of wooden packaging materials, whose thickness does not exceed 20 cm, 
by means of the dielectric heating method (microwave, radio frequency), to achieve a 
temperature of at least 60 ° C, including the surface temperature, for at least one minute.  
It is the heating of the wooden packaging materials with a conventional hea t treatment furnace 
for at least thirty minutes to obtain a temperature of at least 56 ° C, including the middle point 
temperature of the wood thickness.  
n) Heat treatment application service: Application of heat treatment, ISPM 15 and 
traceability mark t o the wooden packaging material owned by the supplier or user, which does 
not comply with the provisions of this regulation or the ISPM 15 standard, by the licensed 
business , 
 o) Furnace volume that can be heat treated:  
 DH; The volume of the furnace, which remains after the space occupied by structures 
such as the heating system (microwave, radio frequency, etc.), suspended ceilings inside the 
furnace , where wooden packaging materials can be put into the heat treatment furnace ,  
 HT; The furnace volume in which the wooden packaging materials can be placed in the 
heat treatment furnace, which remains after the space occupied by the structures such as the 
fan, suspended ceiling, serpentine in the furnace,  
ö) ISPM 15 Marking:  Marking of heat -treated wooden packaging material with an 
internationally defined logo to indicate that it meets the ISPM 15 standard  
p) ISPM 15 marking: After the wood packaging material is subjected to heat treatment 
by licensed businesses  in accordance with the provisions of this Regulation in order to indicate 
that it meets the ISPM 15 standard, marking the internationally defined ISPM 15 mark with a 
logo containing our country's TR code, business number and the type of heat treatment app lied, 
r) ISPM 15 registry: For ready -to-ship or sale wooden packaging materials with heat 
treatment application in accordance with the provisions of this Regulation and traceability mark 4 
 with ISPM 15 marking by licensed businesses , the book taken from the provincial directorate 
and the revolving fund businesses  of the directorate and kept separately for each heat treatment 
furnace, which is the same as the lot number, quantity, size and type information in the 
computer -controlled automation system of the pa rty it is heat treated, and the supplier and user 
information from which the wooden packaging materials belonging to the specified batch are 
shipped or sold are written,  
s) ISPM 15 controlling officer: Agricultural engineer, forestry industrial engineer an d 
woodworking industrial engineer personnel working in the central and provincial units of the 
Ministry and affiliated and related institutions have been entitled to receive ISPM 15 control 
officer authorization by passing the written and oral exam specifi ed in the directive to be issued 
within the scope of this Regulation,  
ş) ISPM 15 standard: It is the regulation on internationally traded wood packaging 
materials from the IPPC, from international standards set for plant health measures.  
t) Provincial Dire ctor Provincial Director of Agriculture and Forestry  
u) Provincial directorate: Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry  
ü) Deputy provincial director: Provincial Deputy Director of Agriculture and Forestry  
v) Piling strip: It is the wooden material placed between the wooden packaging materials 
that will be heat treated in the heat treatment furnace to ensure air flow.  
y) Dunnage: It is a wooden packaging material used to protect or support the commodity, 
but it is not related to the commodit y. 
z) Marking apparatus: All of the tools marking the wooden packaging material by burning 
with chrome, brass and similar metal molds, painting with digital, manual or automatic 
machines, scraping, marking with the logo containing our internationally defin ed country's TR 
code, business number and type of heat treatment application, in accordance with the principles 
specified in Annex -1 in order to indicate that the wooden packaging material meets the ISPM 
15 standard after the heat treatment application is applied in accordance with the provisions of 
this Regulation by the licensed businesses , 
aa) Marking apparatus sales permit: The document specified in Annex -23, issued for 
businesses with a license that manufactures and sells the marking apparatus or buys and sells 
the manufactured marking apparatus.  
bb) Importer The natural or legal person who ensures that the goods are brought to our 
country by subjecting them to the procedures of entry into free circulation regime, customs 
warehouse regime, inward proces sing regime, processing under customs control regime and 
temporary importation regime.  
cc) Permission document: Following the approval of the authorized commission, the 
applications of natural and legal persons applying for heat treatment and traceability marking 
with ISPM 15 marking on wood and wooden packaging materials in accordance with the 
provisions of this Regulation, wooden packaging material marking permission certificate 
specified in Annex -8 issued by the authorized provincial directorate or direc torate  
çç) Traceability marking: After heat treatment of wood packaging material in accordance 
with the provisions of this Regulation and ISPM 15 marking, marking with a logo showing the 
furnace number, batch number and the year of the heat treatment appli cation in accordance with 
the principles in Annex -1 
dd) Unshelled wood: This is wood with a piece of shell that is less than 3 cm wide or 
larger than 3 cm and has a total surface area of less than 50 cm², regardless of length.  
ee) Camera system:  
HT; One system installed in a suitable place at an angle that will see the door of the heat 
treatment furnace  from the opposite side and display all the wooden packaging materials to be 
placed inside the furnace, that can record fixed and moving images as video and photographic 5 
 images with a high resolution of at least 1080 pixels in the computer -controlled automation 
system, in adverse climatic conditions and darkness and that can be controlled by a computer -
controlled automation system, which can display the date and time of the recording in the lower 
right corner of the printout when the recorded images in the computer environment are printed 
from the printer,  
DH; Two systems, one of which is mounted in a suitable place at an angle to view the 
entrance pa rt of the wood packaging material to the heat treatment furnace and the other the 
exit part that can record fixed and moving images as video and photographic images with a high 
resolution of at least 1080 pixels in the computer -controlled automation system , in adverse 
outdoor conditions and darkness and that can be controlled by a computer -controlled 
automation system, which can display the date and time of the recording in the lower right 
corner of the printout when the recorded images in the computer envi ronment are printed from 
the printer,  
ff) Quarantine condition: Owned by the user, supplier and licensed business ; all the 
measures to be taken in order to prevent the contamination of harmful organisms from the 
environment, in accordance with the provisions of this Regulation and ISPM 15 standard, not 
to keep together the heat -treated and marked wooden packaging mat erials and unmarked 
wooden packaging materials that have not been heat -treated,  
gg) Composite wood packaging material: Assembled wooden packaging material 
obtained by using together the out -of-scope wooden components and the covered wooden 
components spec ified in the third paragraph of Article 2 of this Regulation  
ğğ) User: The business  that exports or will be exported wooden packaging material with 
heat treatment application in accordance with ISPM 15 standard or the provisions of this 
Regulation and trac eability mark with ISPM 15 marking and that will use heat treatment 
application in accordance with the ISPM 15 standard or the provisions of this regulation and 
wooden packaging material with traceability mark with ISPM 15 marking,  
hh) Goods: Every kind of  item that is transported from one place to another for 
commercial or other  purposes,  
ıı) Disassembled wooden packaging material: Obtained after combining each wooden 
piece of wood packaging material with each other; products such as pallets, crates, crates, 
boxes, cable reels and coil reels,  
ii) Assembled wooden packaging material volume: The volume (width x length x height 
= ……m³) of the assembled wooden packaging material, expressed as m³, obtained by 
multiplying the values in centimeters (cm) of th e width, length and height,  
jj) Director: Agricultural Quarantine Director  
kk) Deputy Director Agricultural Quarantine Deputy Director  
ll) Directorates Agricultural Quarantine Directorate,  
mm) Repair: It is a maximum of one -third of parts replacement in wo oden packaging 
materials.  
nn) Automatic nailing and marking line system: These are conveyor bands or automatic 
systems in the businesses that produce wooden packaging materials, where selection, 
alignment, rotation, placement, assembly, nailing, ISPM 15 ma rking and similar operations can 
be made between the manufacturing phases.  
oo) Batch: All of the wooden packaging material put into the heat treatment furnace at 
once for the heat treatment application,  
öö) Product in free circulation: Wooden packaging mat erial conforming to the provisions 
of other provisions except the traceability mark which is included in the third paragraph of 
Annex -1 document of this regulation, which comes to our country with the imported product, 
is in compliance with the ISPM 15 sta ndard prepared by the IPPC, officially entered through 6 
 the customs of our country and is included in the invoice information, together or separately 
with the imported product. Wooden packaging material conforming to the provisions of other 
provisions excep t the mark,  
pp) Branch manager: Plant production and plant health branch manager in the Provincial 
Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry  
rr) Supplier: Businesses that buy and sell wooden packaging materials in compliance with 
the provisions of this Regul ation, with ISPM 15 heat treatment and traceability marking, and 
wooden packaging materials that are imported and put into free circulation, in accordance with 
the provisions of this Regulation, to be used in export  
ss) Supplier registration certificate: Supplier registration certificate for wooden packaging 
materials used in export, as specified in Annex -15, issued by the authorized provincial 
directorate and directorate for suppliers who buy and sell wooden packaging materials in 
accordance with the ISPM  15 standard and the provisions of this Regulation used with the 
product in export,  
şş) Supplier registry: In accordance with the provisions of this Regulation, the book that 
can be obtained from the provincial directorate and directorate revolving fund businesses , 
where the purchase information of wood packaging materials and wood materials imported and 
released into free circulation, obtained from a licensed business  or another supplier, whose 
traceability mark is made with the heat treatment applicatio n and ISPM 15 marking, that 
complies with the ISPM 15 standard and other provisions of this regulation, except for the 
traceability mark in the third paragraph of Annex -1 document, is written, the information about 
the sale of these wooden packaging materi als to another supplier or user is kept by the suppliers.  
tt) Re-production: It is more than a third of parts replacement for wooden packaging 
materials.  
uu) Authorized provincial directorate: Denizli and Kocaeli Provincial Directorate of 
Agriculture and F orestry  
üü) Authorized directorates: Ağrı, Ankara, Antalya,  Ardahan,  Artvin, Bursa, Edirne, 
Hatay, İstanbul, İzmir, Mersin, Samsun, Şırnak and Trabzon Agricultural Quarantine 
Directorates  
vv) Harmful organism: The species, strain or biotypes of plant, ani mal or pathogenic 
agents that damage plant or  
herbal.  
 
CHAPTER TWO  
Permit Application, Permit Renewal Application, Supplier Registration Certificate 
Application, Required Conditions for Permitted Businesses  
 
Permit application, permit renewal application and supplier registration document 
application  
ARTICLE 5 – (1) Businesses  seeking to obtain a permit, together with the copies of the 
following documents, certified by the principal or the provincial directorate, provided that the 
issuing institution is ap proved, or provided to see the original; apply to the directorate in 
provinces with a directorate and to the provincial directorate in other provinces. As a result of 
the examination made by the directorate or provincial directorate; in case it is determin ed that 
the information in the documents are consistent with each other, the main audit is made in the 
business . These documents are:  
a) Annex -2/A application petition,  
b) Annex 3 document,  7 
 c) Annex -4 document, (If the heat treatment operator certifies tha t he/she is the owner or 
partner of the business, an employment contract is not required.)  
ç) Annex -5 document,  
d) Turkey Trade Registry Gazette or Turkey Tradesmen and Craftsmen Registry Gazette,  
(2) In case the permit application is made for the head off ice or branch of the business , 
the following principles apply:  
a) The permit is issued according to the address and title information of the place where 
the businesses  set up the heat treatment furnace. The permit is given to the title of the real and 
legal person. Provided that the title and address of the business  are the same, the transfer of the 
shares of the shareholders of the business  to others or the change in t he distribution of shares 
after the share transfer between the shareholders who are the shareholders does not require the 
renewal of the permit. In case the permit is transferred to an business  with a different title, the 
permit must be renewed.  
b) A new I SPM 15 marking number is given by the authorized commission, regardless of 
whether the businesses  that will obtain permission certificate for the first time apply for which 
one, head office or branch. If the application is made for the center, all applicat ion documents 
and all documents issued by ISPM 15 control officers must be according to the address and title 
information of the center. If the application is made for the branch, the Turkish Trade Registry 
Gazette or the Turkish Tradesmen and Craftsmen Re gistry Gazette must be for both the head 
office and the branch, and the information in the other documents and all documents prepared 
by ISPM 15 control officers must be according to the address and title information of the 
branch.  
c) If the title and address written in the permit of a licensed business  belongs to the center 
and a new heat treatment furnace has been established in its branch operating at a different 
address, a new ISPM 15 marking number can be given to the heat treat ment furnace installed 
in the branch, according to the branch title and address information or If requested by the 
licensed business , the heat treatment furnace installed in the branch is given a number to be 
numbered after the number of heat treatment fur naces in the center for the heat treatment 
furnace installed in the branch. In this case, the ISPM 15 marking number on the permission 
document of the center can be given by issuing the permit according to the branch title and 
address information. It is ob ligatory to employ different heat treatment operators in the head 
office and branch.  
ç) If there is more than one business or branch with different titles registered with this 
partner or shareholders, provided that the partners or shareholders specified in  the Turkish 
Trade Registry Gazette or the Turkish Tradesmen and Craftsmen Registry Gazette of the 
business holding the permit are the same, and If there is no difference between the business 
with a permit and the owners of other businesses, in this case, if the licensed business will 
continue its activities with the title of one of the other businesses, this situation is considered as 
a change of title, not a transfer process, and a document renewal process is made. After the new 
title and address informat ion is published in the Turkish Trade Registry Gazette or the Turkish 
Tradesmen and Craftsmen Registry Gazette, which will be the address where the heat treatment 
furnace is located, as specified in the permit, an application for a title change is made. Re newal 
of the certificate is made without the main inspection of the permit certificate. If the business, 
which will continue to operate with the new title, will continue at a different address, not where 
the heat treatment furnace is located, and if the he at treatment furnace will be moved to this 
address, the certificate is renewed after the inspection is made as the basis for the permit 
certificate.  
d) Provided that the businesses  operating in the customs areas and free zones affiliated to 
the Ministry of  Commerce are located in these areas and regions, In case of requesting a license 8 
 to operate in a second rental area, from the documents required in the first paragraph of this 
article, in addition to the Turkish Trade Registry Gazette of the head office a nd the branch, or 
the Turkish Tradesmen and Craftsmen Registry Gazette, a lease agreement for the leased area 
is requested instead of the Turkish Trade Registry Gazette or the Turkish Tradesmen and 
Artisans Registry Gazette showing the address of the renta l area.  
 (3) The permit renewal procedures of licensed businesses  are carried out in the following 
cases;  
a) In case the business with a permit is moved to a different address; for heat treatment 
application and ISPM 15 marking and traceability marking, application with Annex -2/B 
application petition must be made by the business  to the Directorate or Provincia l Directorate 
prior to the move. After the move, it is necessary to apply to the directorate or provincial 
directorate, together with the documents in the first paragraph of this article, and to make an 
audit based on the permit. Suspension is applied unti l the permit is renewed by the authorized 
provincial directorate or directorate, in this business  heat treatment application and ISPM 15 
marking cannot be done, if it is determined it is deemed that ISPM 15 marking is made without 
obtaining a permit.  
b) In  case of changing the place of the heat treatment furnace within the business , the 
heating system feeding the heat treatment furnace or the computer controlled automation 
system, with Annex -2/B application petition, Annex -3 and Annex -5 document and the per mit 
they must apply to the directorate or provincial directorate and an inspection must be made. 
Suspension is applied until the permit that it can be used in the new location of the renewed 
heating or automation system or heat treatment furnace is approve d by the authorized provincial 
directorate or directorate, in this business  heat treatment application and ISPM 15 marking 
cannot be done, if it is determined it is deemed that ISPM 15 marking is made without obtaining 
a permit.  
c) In case of a change or a n increase in the number of the licensed business , the existing 
heat treatment furnace, the heating system feeding the heat treatment furnace or the computer -
controlled automation system  
1) If the heat treatment furnace approved by the authorized commissio n is replaced with 
another heat treatment furnace, or the heating system feeding the heat treatment furnace is 
replaced by another heating system or the computer -controlled automation system is replaced 
by another computer -controlled automation system, in order to use the replaced heat treatment 
furnace or heating system or computer -controlled automation system, to apply heat treatment 
in the heat treatment furnace and to use the ISPM 15 mark, it is necessary to apply to the 
directorate or provincial direct orate with the Annex -2/B application petition, Annex -3 and 
Annex -5 documents, and to conduct an audit based on the permit document. Until the replaced 
heat treatment furnace or heating system or computer controlled automation system is approved 
by the auth orized commission and the permit is renewed by the authorized provincial 
directorate or directorate, heat treatment application and ISPM 15 marking cannot be made in 
the said heat treatment furnace. If it is determined that it has been done, it is decided that the 
ISPM 15 marking has been made without obtaining a permit.  
2) To be able to apply heat treatment in the heat treatment furnace or furnaces built in 
addition to the heat treatment furnace approved by the authorized commission and to use the 
ISPM 15  mark, it is necessary to apply to the directorate or provincial directorate with the 
Annex -2/B application petition, Annex -3 and Annex -5 documents, and to conduct an audit 
based on the permit document. Until the new heat treatment furnace or furnaces can be used, it 
is approved by the authorized commission and the permit is renewed by the authorized 
provincial directorate or directorate, heat treatment application and ISPM 15 marking cannot 
be made in the said heat treatment furnaces. if it is determined i t is deemed that ISPM 15 
marking is made without obtaining a permit.  9 
 3) Until the new heat treatment furnaces installed in addition to the heat treatment 
furnaces approved by the authorized commission are approved by the authorized commission, 
the heat tr eatment furnaces previously approved by the authorized commission will continue to 
be used.  
ç) In case the licensed business  has an automatic driving and marking line system installed 
in its business  a renewal application must be made. In this case, the applicant applies to the 
directorate or provincial directorate within thirty days at the latest, together with the Annex -2/B 
application petition, the invoice for the installation of the automatic nail ing and marking line 
system. The automatic driving and marking line system is determined by ISPM 15 control 
officers within the business  and specified in the Annex -7 document. Application documents 
and Annex -7 document are sent to the authorized provincial  directorate or directorate. Until the 
permit is renewed by the authorized provincial directorate or directorate, traceability marking 
with ISPM 15 marking continues according to the principles specified in Annex -1 after the heat 
treatment application in t his facility. Following the renewal of the permit, ISPM 15 marking 
can be done before the heat treatment application. ISPM 15 marking cannot be made before the 
heat treatment application without renewing the permit. If it is determined that it has been don e, 
it is judged that the ISPM 15 marking has been made without obtaining a permit.  
d) In case the business with a permit is desired to be taken over by any business before 
the transfer process, the business must apply to the directorate or provincial direc torate with an 
Appendix -2/B application petition. After the transfer process, the business that will take over 
the business must apply to the directorate or provincial directorate, together with the documents 
in (b), (c), (ç) and (d) clauses of the first p aragraph of this article, together with the notarized 
transfer agreement stating that all rights on the permit have been transferred. In the business  
that wants to transfer until the date of the transfer agreement and until the renewal of the permit 
in the  transferee business  by the authorized provincial directorate or directorate, heat treatment 
application and ISPM 15 marking cannot be done, if it is determined it is deemed that ISPM 15 
marking is made without obtaining a permit.  
(5) In the event that the  address of the licensed business  changes due to the numbering 
work carried out by the authorized institution or organization, a renewal application with 
Annex -2/B application petition must be made within 6 months following the change. In this 
case, it is necessary to apply to the directorate or provincial directorate with the documents in 
(c) and (d) of the first paragraph of this article and the numbering change certificate to be 
obtained from the relevant institution or organization. Until the permit is renewed by the 
authorized provincial directorate or directorate, in this business ; Traceability marking can be 
done with heat treatment application and ISPM 15 marking.  
f) In case of a change in the title of the licensed business  within 6 months following the 
change, it is necessary to apply for renewal of the permit with the Annex -2/B application 
petition. In this case, it is necessary to apply to the directorate or provincial directorate with 
documents in the (b), (c) and (d) of the first paragraph of thi s article and Turkey Trade Registry 
Gazette showing the change in title or the example of Turkey Tradesmen and Craftsmen 
Registration Gazette. Until the permit is renewed by the authorized provincial directorate or 
directorate, in this business ; Traceabili ty marking can be done with heat treatment application 
and ISPM 15 marking.  
(4) The ISPM 15 mark number belonging to the businesses  whose permit certificate has 
been revoked cannot be given to any other business  other than the business  whose title is written 
on the canceled permit document. If the business  whose permit has been canceled wants to 
obtain a re -marking permit, an application must be made with the Appendix -2/C application 
petition. It is necessary to apply to the directorate  or provincial directorate together with the 
documents in subparagraphs (b), (c), (ç) and (d) of the first paragraph of this article and to 10 
 conduct an inspection based on the permit document. If the business  requests, the ISPM 15 
mark number on the cancele d permit can be given again or a new ISPM 15 mark number can 
be given.  
(5) Businesses  wishing to obtain a supplier registration certificate, together with the 
Annex -13 document in the annex of this Regulation and the originals of the annexed documents 
or approved by the institution that issued the document or approved by the directorate or 
provincial directorate, provided that the original is to be seen; It applies to the directorate in the 
provinces where there is a directorate, and to the provincial dire ctorate in other provinces with 
the Annex -13 document. As a result of the examination made at the address of the applicant 
business  by the ISPM 15 control officers of the directorate or provincial directorate; if it is 
determined that the Annex -13 document  and the information in its annex are correct, the Annex -
14 document is issued for the business  and sent to the authorized provincial directorate or 
directorate, together with the Annex -13 document, for evaluation. The eligible businesses are 
approved by t he authorized commission. The authorized provincial directorate or directorate 
shall issue the Annex -15 supplier registration document for wooden packaging materials used 
in export. Wooden packaging materials used in export cannot be traded in businesses  for which 
a supplier registration certificate is not issued by the authorized provincial directorate or 
directorate. If it is determined it is deemed that ISPM 15 marking is made without obtaining a 
permit.  
 
Requirements for the Licensed Businesses  
ARTICLE 6 – (1) General conditions to be met by the licensed businesses  are as follows:  
a) The business must be located at the address specified in the permit document.  
b) Computer controlled automation system, heating system feeding the heat treatment 
furnace and  heat treatment furnace, which is approved by the Authorized Commission in the 
business , is capable of heat treatment in accordance with the principles specified in article 7 of 
this Regulation and in the place, number and feature, and which ensures the co rrect data 
acquisition must be found.  
c) There must be computer aided automation system,  
1) allowing to enter furnace number, the batch number, type and quantity or quantity of 
wood packaging material to be heat treated before the heat treatment applicatio n begins.  
2) When the heat treatment application starts,  automatically recording the business name 
and / or title of the application, the date and time of the heat treatment application, and one -
minute data pertaining to the heat  
3) Camera system:  
manuall y records a photographic image of the heat treatment furnace and a ten -second 
motion video image before the HT heat treatment application starts, and a photographic image 
and a ten -second motion video image of ten seconds without closing the doors after th e entire 
wooden packaging material of the relevant party is put into the heat treatment furnace, 
automatically records a photographic image of the heat treatment furnace doors and a ten -
second motion video image after completing the heat treatment applicat ion in accordance with 
the provisions of this Regulation and giving the batch number, manually records a photographic 
image and a ten -second motion video image before the doors of the heat treatment furnace are 
opened and the heat -treated wooden packaging materials are removed from the heat treatment 
furnace,  
manually records a photographic image and a ten -second motion video image without 
closing the inlets and outlets of the conveyor system before the DH heat treatment application 
starts and automatically records a photographic image and a ten -second motion v ideo image 
one minute after the entrances and exits are closed and the heat treatment application starts, and 11 
 after completing the heat treatment application in accordance with the provisions of this 
Regulation and giving the lot number, a photographic ima ge and a ten -second motion video 
image are automatically  
recorded.  
ç) Temperature meters and data recording equipment used in the heat treatment furnace 
should be calibrated at 20 °C, 56 °C and 80 °C in a calibration laboratory accredited by the 
Turkish A ccreditation Agency, at least once a year, following the receipt of the permit. 
Calibration certificates of temperature meters and data recording equipment should be kept at 
the facility and shown to ISPM 15 control officers during inspections.  
d) The cabl es used in the heat treatment furnace, which connect the temperature meter 
and the data recording equipment to transmit temperature data, must not be extended with 
additional cable connections. Information on the calibration of the temperature meter and da ta 
recording equipment should be on it.  
e) At least one heat treatment operator must be employed in the business  to perform the 
duties specified in this Regulation.  
f) If the heat treatment operator employed in the facility is not the owner or partner of t he 
business, the notarized employment contract specified in the Annex -4 document made with the 
heat treatment operator must be up -to-date and shown to ISPM 15 control officers during the 
inspections.  
(2) The special conditions required to be met by the lic ensed businesses  that perform heat 
treatment with HT heat treatment furnace are given below.  
a) There must be devices such as fans, ventilators, etc., with the feature and power to 
provide sufficient air flow to ensure the internal temperature of the wood inside or outside the 
heat treatment furnace.  
b) The heat treatment furnace must be insulated to prevent heat loss.  
(3) Businesses with permit certificates that perform heat treatment application with DH 
heat treatment furnace, in heat treatment furnaces w here heat treatment will be applied to 
wooden packaging materials whose thickness exceeds 5 cm, should use bidirectional 
application or multi frequency router in heating with 2.45 GHz frequency in order to ensure 
homogeneous distribution of heating.  
 
 
CHAPTER THREE  
Principles Regarding Heat Treatment Application, ISPM 15 and Traceability 
Marking and Marked and Used Wooden Packaging Materials  
 
Principles regarding heat treatment application, ISPM 15 and traceability marking  
ARTICLE 7 – (1) Principles of heat treatment application and ISPM 15 and traceability 
marking are as follows:  
a) Heat treatment application and ISPM 15 and traceability marking are performed by the 
employed heat treatment operator in accordance with the principles set forth in this art icle and 
Annex -1 in the companies with permission certificates whose ISPM 15 marking permit is not 
suspended.  
b) The ISPM 15 marking is made with the sign and number authorized by the Competent 
Commission after the heat treatment application in the heat tr eatment furnace or furnaces of 
permitted businesses  located at the address indicated on the permit, approved by the Competent 
Commission. ISPM 15 marking cannot be applied on wooden packaging material that has not 
been heat treated. However, if an automati c nailing and marking line system is available in the 12 
 licensed facility, ISPM 15 marking can be made on the wooden packaging material in the 
businesses  that meet the following conditions before the heat treatment application:  
1) If there is an automatic na iling and marking line in an business , it must be specified in 
the Annex -7 document. ISPM 15 marking cannot be made before the heat treatment application 
in businesses  that do not specify an automatic driving and marking line system in Annex -7 
document.  
2) Wooden packaging materials produced with an automatic nailing and marking line 
system and with ISPM 15 marking cannot be taken out of the licensed business  without heat 
treatment and marking with a traceability mark.  
3) ISPM 15 marking cannot be done befo re the heat treatment application in the 
businesses  where the automatic nailing and marking line system is not working, not used or 
defective.  
4) Businesses that have an automatic driving and marking line system installed in their 
business after obtaining the permit cannot make ISPM 15 marking before the heat treatment 
application without renewing the permit.  
c) Heat treatment and ISPM 15 and traceability marking are made on disassembled 
wooden packaging materials and parts that are either assembled or cut in accordance with the 
installation. In the disassembled state, the following principles shall be followed in wooden 
packaging materials and parts to be applied and marked with heat treatment:  
1) The assembly process is carried out in the company with perm it certificate or the user 
company that perform the heat treatment application.  
2) If the assembly is to be carried out in a licensed facility ISPM 15 and traceability 
marking is made after the assembly process. If the assembly is to be made in the user co mpany, 
the ISPM 15 marking is applied to each part separately in the business with permit. It is marked 
with a traceability mark after the assembly process.  
3) During the assembly process, any wood material without heat treatment and ISPM 15 
marking can no t be used. It is deemed that the user firms, which are found to be in violation of 
the provisions stated in this sub -clause, make the ISPM 15 marking without obtaining a license.  
ç) ISPM 15 and traceability marking of any composite wood packaging material is made 
according to the following principles:  
1) ISPM 15 and traceability mark on the composite wooden packaging material must be 
of legible size in accordance with the principles specified in Annex -1. 
2) Marking is primarily done on the wooden part of the composite wood packaging 
material, which meets the readable size requirement and if there is sufficient marking area, 
according to the principles specified in Annex -1. 
3) If there is not a large enough marking area on the wooden parts within the scope of the 
composite wood packaging material, the marking is made on the out -of-scope piece that meets 
the readable size requirement in accordance with the principles specified in Annex -1.  
d) If an business  has more than one heat treatment furnace with the sa me or different 
computer -controlled automation system at the address specified in the permit, the same ISPM 
15 mark is used for all heat treatment furnaces. In the event that a new heat treatment furnace 
is added to the heat treatment furnace approved by t he Competent Commission in the licensed 
operation, each heat treatment furnace is evaluated separately by the Competent Commission. 
A separate ISPM 15 logbook is kept for each furnace and computer controlled automation 
system of heat treatment applications . After the heat treatment of wooden packaging materials; 
first with the ISPM 15 mark number and then with the traceability mark or to be marked 
simultaneously with the ISPM 15 mark and the traceability mark. First, traceability marking 
cannot be followed by ISPM 15 marking.  13 
 e) Heat treatment application and ISPM 15 and traceability marking are made on wooden 
packaging materials produced from peeled wood, without the galleries and traces of harmful 
organisms.  
f) Before the heat treatment application thermom eters and data recording equipment in 
the furnace are checked and regular operation is ensured.  
g) Before each heat treatment application begins, furnace number, the batch number of 
the heat treatment application to be made, the type and dimensions of wood en packaging 
material to be included in the batch, and the quantity in m³ for those who are applied heat 
treatment in assembled form, and in the case of disassembled heat treatment are entered into 
the computer controlled automation system. This informatio n entered into the computer 
controlled automation system is automatically written to the computer output by the system.  
ğ) In the computer -controlled automation system, no outside intervention can be made in 
the form of entering numerical data, adding came ra system images, making changes in the 
records of the heat treatment application or in any other way, as if it was done even though the 
heat treatment was not applied.  
h) The amount of wooden packaging material in a batch cannot be more than the amount 
of heat-treatable furnace volume as demounted or assembled wooden packaging material (heat -
treatable furnace volume ÷ disassembled or assembled wooden packaging material volume ≥ 
1). 
ı) In case the wooden packaging materials with heat treatment application, ISPM 15 
marking and traceability mark are shipped to another location, the batch number, furnace 
number, heat treatment date, type, dimensions and quantity of the wooden packaging material 
shipped as an explanation on the delivery note and/or invoice issue d by the company that made 
the heat treatment application, ISPM 15 marking and traceability mark are written and the heat 
treatment printout is attached. The remaining copies of these documents in the business  are kept 
for 2 years and presented to ISPM 15 control officers during the inspection.  
ı) The total amount of wood packaging material in any batch of shipment and/or invoices 
cannot exceed the amount specified in the heat treatment computer printouts. In order for the 
records of the heat treatment appl ications carried out in the business  to be examined 
retrospectively, n ISPM 15 log is kept in each business .  
j) In case the wooden packaging materials sold with heat treatment application, ISPM 15 
marking and traceability mark are sold together with the wooden packaging materials sold 
without heat treatment application, with the same delivery note and/or invoice,  heat treated 
statement is written in front of the wooden packaging materials that have been heat treated.  
k) In businesses  that do not carry out heat treatment for 1 year or more until the ISPM 15 
control officers perform heat treatment, ISPM 15 marking and traceability marking and the 
approval of the Competent Commission heat treatment application, ISPM 15 marking and 
traceability mark cannot be made. The activities of licensed businesses  that do not apply heat 
treatment for 1 year or more are suspended.  
j) Wooden packaging material with heat treatment application, ISPM 15 marking and 
traceability mark is kept to meet the quarantine requirement until shipment.  
m) No harmful organism can be found in wood packaging materials with heat treatment 
application,  ISPM 15 marking and traceability mark. As a result of the analysis made on the 
sample taken from the wooden packaging materials marked by ISPM 15 in the inspections 
carried out in the permit -operated business , if it is determined that no heat treatment is  applied 
to the sample taken or that harmful organism is found in the sample it is deemed that ISPM 15 
marking is applied to said wooden packaging material without heat treatment.  
n) In case of obtaining suspicious data in the numerical and graphical heat treatment 
outputs of the heat treatment applications made in the records in the computer automation 14 
 system during the audit carried out at the facility, the external hard disk or computer case, where 
the data of the heat treatment applications are recorded  and the software of the computer 
automation system is located, is taken to the provincial directorate or directorate for 
examination, in return for a report. The activity of the licensed business is suspended until the 
review is completed. Until the suspe nsion process is terminated, heat treatment application and 
ISPM 15 marking are not carried out in the licensed business . If it is determined that it has been 
done, it is judged that ISPM 15 marking has been made without applying heat treatment.  
(2) Specia l principles regarding heat treatment application with heat treatment furnace 
are as follows:  
a) The wooden packaging material to be heat treated is stacked inside the heat treatment 
furnace in a way not to prevent air flow. A stacking strip is placed betw een the wooden 
packaging materials that will prevent the air flow and air flow is provided.  
b) Before heat treatment thermometers measuring temperature of the wood are placed in 
the thickest place of the wooden packaging material in the four slowest heatin g parts of the heat 
treatment furnace determined in the heat treatment test, or in the same material that will 
represent the thickest area and the depth to measure the core temperature. In heat treatment 
application, at least two ambient temperature meters  are used to measure the furnace  
temperature.  
c) Since the heat transfer through the nail impairs the accuracy of the temperature 
recorded by the wood temperature meter, the wood temperature meter cannot be placed near 
the nails.  
ç) Temperature meters plac ed in holes made in wooden packaging materials should be 
tight enough not to fall when turned upside down. In order to prevent heat dissipation and 
passage through holes drilled in wooden packaging materials, the back of the temperature 
meters are covered with a suitable insulating material or covered temperature meters that do not 
require filling material.  
d) In each heat treatment application, the values taken from each wood and ambient 
temperature meter are monitored in a computer controlled automation s ystem for at least thirty 
minutes without interruption from the initial temperature values, until the midpoint temperature 
of 56 °C or above is achieved.  
e) From the moment when the value taken from the ambient temperature meters in the 
heat treatment application is higher than the value obtained from the wooden temperature 
meters until the end of the heat treatment application, the values taken from the wood 
temperature meters cannot be higher than the values taken from the ambient temperature meters.  
f) In heat treatment application, the difference between the values taken from each wood 
temperature meter in any minute and the values before one minute cannot exceed 5 ºC.  
g) After each heat treatment application, the printouts of the computer records of  the heat 
treatment application, one -minute data of the relevant lot, showing that the wood thickness 
midpoint temperature of 56 °C or above has been achieved for a continuous period of at least 
thirty minutes, is automatically recorded in the computer -controlled automation system. From 
the one -minute temperature data from the beginning to the end of the heat treatment application, 
two copies are taken of the one -page heat treatment printout, which is only for the period of at 
least thirty minutes uninterru pted stay at 56 °C and above. It is approved with the original 
signature of the heat treatment operator by affixing the same serial number security hologram 
on the front side separately. A copy of the one -page heat treatment output, which is for at least 
thirty minutes uninterrupted stay at 56 °C and above, is kept in the facility for 2 years and 
presented to ISPM 15 control officers during the inspections. The other copy of the one -page 
heat treatment output with security hologram, which belongs to the per iod of at least thirty 
minutes uninterrupted stay at 56 °C and above, is given to the user or supplier with the delivery 15 
 note and/or invoice. All recorded information, including the camera system image in the 
computer -controlled automation system, is also stored for at least 2 years.  
ğ) If the wooden packaging material belonging to the relevant batch, which remains at a 
temperature of 56 °C or higher for at least thirty minutes uninterrupted, is not sold all at once 
and is sold by pieces the following princ iples are applied by the licensed operator:  
1) For the completed heat treatment application of the relevant batch in accordance with 
the provisions of this Regulation where it remains at a temperature of 56 °C or above for at least 
thirty minutes, a heat t reatment printout is obtained showing all the information about the entire 
wooden packaging material without changing the amount, type and size of the wooden 
packaging material.  
2) The information on the heat treatment printouts cannot be arranged and atta ched to the 
delivery note and/or invoice according to the sales quantity by piece and type.  
3) No more heat treatment printouts are received than the number of delivery notes and/or 
invoices for the sale of the wooden packaging material by piece in the rel evant lot for a 
treatment period of at least thirty minutes uninterrupted at 56 °C and above.  
4) The security hologram of the first sale by piece is affixed on the copy of the one -page 
heat treatment printout remaining in the facility, which belongs to the  period of at least thirty 
minutes uninterrupted treatment at 56 °C and above. A copy of the security hologram affixed 
on each of the heat treatment printouts of the wooden packaging materials belonging to the 
relevant batch, which are placed on the delive ry note and/or invoice attachment of the 
subsequent sale by piece is affixed with a different serial number on the delivery note and/or 
the heat treatment printout attached to the invoice for the first sale in the licensed establishment.  
5) The number of security holograms on the copy of the heat treatment output remaining 
in the licensed establishment must be the same as the number of the delivery note and/or invoice 
issued for the sale by piece.  
6) Heat treatment operators check whether the total amount information on the delivery 
note and/or invoice information of the sale by piece is compatible with the information in the 
secure hologram heat treatment printout, ISPM 15 logbook and computer automation system 
that remains in the licensed establishment.  
7) The amount of heat -treated wooden packaging material specified on the delivery note 
and/or invoice for the sale by piece cannot exceed the amount written on the heat treatment 
printout in the relevant batch.  
h) It is obligatory to record the temperature  values taken from the ambient and wood 
temperature meters in the computer -controlled automation system from the time the wood 
packaging materials are placed in the heat treatment furnace, the doors are closed and the heat 
treatment furnace is started to b e heated. It is essential to register the temperature values to the 
computer -controlled automation system under the pre -heating process or other names after the 
heat treatment furnace starts to be heated.  
ı) If heat treatment is interrupted while heat trea tment is in progress, heat treatment is 
interrupted due to faults from the heating system, fans and other unexpected reasons, and heat 
treatment can be continued from the end of the interruption in evaluations in the period of time 
from the interruption of  the heat treatment to the time of the interruption, conformity to the d, 
e and f of the second paragraph of this article is ignored and the heat treatment application can 
be continued from the time when the interruption ends without returning to the begin ning. In 
the event that heat treatment is continued in this way, the starting point of the heat treatment 
application is accepted when the conformity to the d, e and f of the second paragraph of this 
article is restored and heat treatment is considered val id, provided that at least thirty minutes of 
uninterrupted time is ensured from the time when the wood thickness of 56 °C or above, taken 
from wood temperature meters, is obtained.  16 
 i) The temperature values taken at any time interval of the heat treatment application 
cannot be the same for three consecutive minutes, from the values taken from the four hottest 
points of the heat treatment furnace and the ambient temperature meters, determined in the 
inspection based on the permit, for one -minute periods. Oth erwise the heat treatment 
application is invalid.  
j) The numerical temperature values taken from the ambient and wood temperature meters 
of the heat treatment application are not rounded off and shown only as integers. It is mandatory 
to show the part after the integer in decimal notation. The decimal part after the integer is 
displayed as two digits without rounding.  
(3) The specific principles regarding the application of heat treatment with the DH heat 
treatment furnace are as follows:  
a) It is appli ed on wooden packaging materials with a thickness not exceeding 20 cm and 
in practice, temperatures up to 60 °C or higher are reached within thirty minutes, including 
wood surface temperature.  
b) Wood temperature meters are placed on the wooden surface in a way that they can 
obtain accurate data.  
ç) Each heat treatment application is constantly monitored by four wood temperature 
meters placed on the wooden surface in the slowest heated part of the heat treatment furnace 
detected in the heat treatment test a nd two wood temperature meters placed in the core of the 
most dense wooden part at the front and back of the heat treatment furnace.  
ç) In each heat treatment application, the change of the values taken from each wood 
meter is seen in the computer records at one minute intervals until the wooden surface 
temperature of 60 °C or above is obtained for one minute from the initial temperature values.  
d) The values taken from the wood temperature meters measuring the surface 
temperatures of the wood during the he at treatment application cannot be higher than the values 
taken from the wood temperature meters measuring the core temperatures of the wood.  
e) After each heat treatment application, in the computer records of the heat treatment 
application it is seen in the computer -controlled automation system records at one -minute 
intervals until the wood surface temperature of 60 °C or higher is achieved for one uninterrupted 
minute of the relevant batch. In inspections, one -minute records of numerical data are display ed 
to ISPM 15 control tasks. From the one -minute temperature data from the beginning to the end 
of the heat treatment application, two copies are taken of the one -page heat treatment printout, 
which is only for the period of at least one minute at 60 °C an d above. It is approved with the 
original signature of the heat treatment operator by affixing the same serial number security 
hologram on the front side separately. A copy of the one -page heat treatment output, which is 
for at least one minute at 60 °C an d above, is kept in the facility for 2 years and presented to 
ISPM 15 control officers during the inspections. Another copy of the one -page heat treatment 
printout with security hologram, which is for at least one minute at 60 °C and above, is given 
to the  user or supplier with the delivery note and/or invoice. All recorded information, including 
the camera system image in the computer -controlled automation system, is also stored for at 
least 2 years.  
 
Principles regarding marked and used wooden packaging materials  
ARTICLE 8  – (1) Wooden package materials in free circulation, bearing the ISPm -15 
mark, which were imported or  obtained as a result of domestic movement, can be used with a 
good that will be imported, on condition that it meets the provisions of  the second paragraph of 
this article. However, in case an adding or repairing is made on the wooden package  material, 
which has been processed with heat treatment and bears the mark, the wooden package material 
is reprocessed with heat treatment and the added piece is marked.  17 
 (2) In order for the wooden packaging materials that are in free circulation to be used 
together with the product for re -exportation, the following principles are followed by the users 
and suppliers:  
a) Users, who are also importers, may purchase wooden packaging materials that go into 
free circulation along with the imported product, provided that the quantity information of the 
wooden packaging material is included in the imported product invoice, provided that it 
complies  with the ISPM 15 standard and other provisions, excluding the traceability marking 
in the third paragraph of Annex -1 of this Regulation, it can be used again in the export 
transaction to be made by itself, without the need for any further processing. The invoice of the 
imported products is kept for 2 years.  
b. Suppliers  
Wooden packaging materials that are in free circulation to be used in re -export, provided 
that they meet the conditions other than the traceability mark in the third paragraph of the 
Annex -1 document of this Regulation, which is included with the imported product in the 
invoice information or separately, and that these wooden packaging materials have a sales 
invoice may be sold to users or to another supplier. Wooden packaging materials that  are given 
to the supplier by the importer, that do not have a purchase invoice and that are in free 
circulation cannot be sold for re -export.  
2) A certified copy of the phytosanitary certificate must be attached to the invoice so that 
the wooden packaging  materials that do not come with the product can be released into free 
circulation and sold to another supplier or user. In addition, the supplier cannot sell more than 
the amount of wooden packaging materials specified in the phytosanitary certificate, an d the 
information regarding the said sales transaction is recorded in the supplier's registry.  
3) Wooden packaging materials with ISPM 15 mark belonging to foreign countries, those 
that are in free circulation and cannot be certified, and those that have a  traceability marking 
with ISPM 15 mark by licensed businesses  and that do not have security hologram heat 
treatment printouts, are only used domestically. The phrase "cannot be used for export" is 
written on the sales invoice of these wooden packaging mat erials sold for domestic use. In case 
of sale by the suppliers without the phrase “not available for export” written on the invoice, it 
is deemed that ISPM 15 marking has been made without obtaining a permit.  
4) If it is determined that it has been bought by users and used for export, although it has 
the phrase "not available for export", it is deemed that the user has marked ISPM 15 without 
obtaining a permit.  
5) Suppliers and users who have wooden packaging materials that are in free circulation 
and that cannot be documented, and that have a traceability marking with the ISPM 15 sign by 
businesses with a permit and that do not have a security hologram heat treatment printout, can 
use and sell their wooden packaging materials in re -export operations, provid ed that heat 
treatment application service is obtained from licensed businesses . 
(3) The principles to be followed in repair and reproduction processes of free -circulation 
wooden packaging materials and wooden packaging material marked with ISPM 15 are as 
follows:  
a) Repair and reproduction operations are carried out in licensed businesses. If it is 
determined that a repair or re -production operation has been carried out in a place other than 
the licensed business  it is are deemed to have ISPM 15 marking w ithout obtaining a permit.  
b) Heat treatment application, ISPM 15 marking and traceability marking are performed 
by the licensed business that performs repair work on each part to be used in repair. In every 
repair operation after the second time, the prov isions in subparagraph (c) of this paragraph are 
applied.  18 
 c) In the case of re -production of wood packaging material, traceability marking is 
performed on all wooden packaging material by re -heat treatment and ISPM 15 marking. In 
this case, the previous IS PM 15 mark is permanently destroyed by painting, sanding and similar 
methods.  
 
CHAPTER FOUR  
Heat Treatment Operator and Employment and Duties of Heat Treatment 
Operator  
 
Heat Treatment Operator and Employment  
ARTICLE 9 – (1)  In  order to be heat treatment operator, those, who are at least high 
school graduate, apply to the directorate or provincial directorates specified by the Ministry 
with declaration of T.R. identity number and letter of application. Candidates participate  in  the 
training program on heat treatment and ISPM 15 marking, which will be organized by the 
directorate, and five days of theoretical and practical training that will be organized according 
to this program. It is compulsory to participate in the whole trai ning. Candidates, who take 
seventy or above out of hundred in the exam that will be made by the directorate or provincial 
directorates specified by the Ministry are regarded successful. On behalf of the successful 
candidates, the heat treatment operator ce rtificate in Annex -9 is issued. The General Directorate 
is notified for the list of those who issue the heat treatment operator certificate, and the 
authorized provincial directorate or directorate for information.  
(2) At the end of the training organized by the directorate or provincial directorates, the 
updated list of those whose heat treatment operator certificate has been issued and whose 
certificate has been canceled by the authorized provincial directorate or directorate shall be 
published by the Dir ectorate General on the website of the Ministry.  
(3) At least one heat treatment operator is employed in each of the licensed businesses . 
At least two heat treatment operators are employed in licensed businesses  with three or more 
heat treatment furnaces a t the same address. Notary approved employment contract specified 
in Annex -4 document is signed with each heat treatment operator who is employed separately. 
In the event that the employer himself is the heat treatment operator, employment agreement is 
not  looked for. The heat treatment operator employed in any of the companies with permission 
cannot be employed in another permit firms.  
(4) Changes regarding the heat treatment operators employed and the heat treatment 
operators who are the owner or partner of the business  are notified to the provincial directorate 
or directorate within one month at the latest. The business  with a permit s hall submit a copy of 
the notary approved employment contract with the heat treatment operator employed to the 
provincial directorate or directorate within one month at the latest from the date of the contract. 
If the heat treatment operator of the busines s is the owner or partner of the business  submits a 
copy to the provincial directorate or directorate within one month at the latest, following the 
publication of the Turkish Trade Registry Gazette or the Turkish Tradesmen and Craftsmen 
Registry Gazette co ntaining the information about his/her ownership and partnership. A 
notarized employment contract given to the provincial directorate and an institution -approved 
copy of the Turkish Trade Registry Gazette or the Turkish Tradesmen and Craftsmen Registry 
Gazette are sent to the authorized provincial directorate or directorate.  
 
Duties of Heat Treatment Operator  
ARTICLE 10 – (1) The heat treatment operator is obliged to carry out the operations 
carried out within the scope of this Regulation in accordance with the principles specified in 
Annex -1 and Articles 7 and 8 of this Regulation. In addition, the heat treatment operator 19 
 participates in the trainings organized for the heat treatment operators by the directorate or 
provincial directorate.  
(2) The heat treatm ent operator receives training from the business  establishing the heat 
treatment furnace in the operation of the computer controlled automation system, heat treatment 
furnace and the heat source that feeds the heat treatment furnace in the business  with th e 
permission.  
(3) In the following cases, the heat treatment operator certificates of the relevant heat 
treatment operators are canceled by the authorized provincial directorate or directorate, the 
information of those whose certificate has been revoked is  notified to the General Directorate 
as of the date of cancellation of the certificate:  
a) It is determined that the company with the permit certificate in which the heat treatment 
operator is employed performs a transaction contrary to any of the principl es specified in 
Annex -1 and Articles 7 and 8 of this Regulation.  
b) The heat treatment operator does not participate in all of the trainings organized for the 
heat treatment operators by the directorate or provincial directorate.  
c) It is determined that t he heat treatment application is carried out by the heat treatment 
operator employed in the business  although the business  with the permit certificate where the 
heat treatment operator is employed has lost any of the principles specified in article 6 of th is 
Regulation.  
(4) The applications made by the ones whose heat treatment operator certificate has been 
revoked within 1 years from the date of cancellation are not accepted.  
(5) All of the heat treatment operator records are kept by the General Directorat e, and 
those issued by the provincial directorate and directorates affiliated to it are kept by the 
authorized provincial directorate or directorate.  
(6) Heat treatment operators who cannot be employed in licensed businesses  for an 
uninterrupted period of two years are obliged to attend the update training to be organized by 
the Ministry that year. The certificate of heat treatment operators who do not participate in the 
update training announced on the official website of th e Ministry without giving an excuse will 
be cancelled. For those whose certificates have been revoked in this way, 1 year waiting period 
is not required to obtain the heat treatment operator certificate again.  
 
SECTION FIVE  
Inspection Based on Permit Certi ficate, Inspection of Permitted Businesses ,  
Inspection of Businesses Without Permission, Inspection of Suppliers and Users  
 
Inspection based on Permission Certificate  
 ARTICLE 11 – (1) Upon the application made by natural or legal persons, after 
determining that the documents specified in the first paragraph of article 5 of this Regulation 
are appropriate, the principal inspection is made by ISPM 15 control officials in the directorate 
or provincial directorate for the followings:  
a) Whether the business is located at the address written in the application documents,  
            b) It is checked whether the heat treatment operator is employed to perform the duties 
specified in this Regulation in the business.  
(2) In the business, whether computer aided automation system has following 
characteristics  
a) When the heat treatment application starts,  automatically recording the business name 
and / or title of the application, the date and time of the heat treatment application, and one -
minute data pert aining to the heat  20 
 b) Whether it is possible to enter the furnace number, batch number, type, size, quantity 
or quantity in m³ of the wood packaging material to be heat treated,  
c) Whether the camera system is in the appropriate location and feature for H T or DH heat  
treatment.  
(3) For Heat treatment furnace and heating system in the business that perform heat 
treatment application (HT)  
a) Whether the Annex -3 document showing the technical features of the heat treatment 
furnace and heating system was stamp ed and signed by the parties who installed and installed 
the heat treatment furnace,  
b) By determining the number and dimensions of the heat treatment furnace in the 
business  and the amount of wood packaging material to be taken in one batch, whether the 
furnace dimensions specified in the Annex -7 document and the information in the Annex -3 
document are compatible,  
c) Whether there are necessary devices (fan, ventilator, etc.) inside or outside the heat 
treatment furnace that will provide sufficient air flo w and power to provide the internal 
temperature of the wood,  
ç) If all the information is compatible with each other, whether the heat treatment furnace 
is compatible with its location in the sketch specified in the Annex -5 document showing the 
location of  the computer -controlled automation system and the heating system in the  
business . 
(4) For temperature meters and data recorders to be used in heat treatment test  
a) Calibration certificates issued by a calibration laboratory accredited by the Turkish 
Accr editation Agency are available in the facility,  
b) Whether the temperature meter and the deviation value of the highest deviation values 
among thirteen temperature meters have been  
determined.  
(5) It is checked whether there is an automatic nailing and ma rking line system in the 
facility.  
(6) In heat treatment application for wooden packaging material that is assembled or 
disassembled (HT):  
a) Before starting the Heat Treatment test  
1) With the doors of the heat treatment furnace fully open, a photographic  image and a 
ten-second motion video image are taken manually so that the entire interior of the heat 
treatment furnace is visible.  
2) Whether the heat treatment application has no galleries and traces of harmful organisms 
and made on wooden packaging mate rial made of peeled wood,  
3) Whether wooden packing materials are stacked in such a way that they do not block 
the air flow, when assembled or disassembled in the heat treatment furnace,  
4) Whether the amount of wooden packaging material stacked in the hea t treatment 
furnace exceeds the amount calculated in the Annex -7 document,  
5) Whether the wooden temperature meter is placed near the nails as the heat transfer that 
will take place along the nail impairs the accuracy of the temperature recorded by the woo d 
temperature meter,  
6) Whether the type, number and dimensions of the wooden packaging material in the lot 
to be heat treated in the computer -controlled automation system, the amount in m³ for the 
disassembled heat treatment, and the number of the furnace  where the test is performed, are 
written,,  21 
 7) Whether a photographic image and a ten -second video recording of the wooden 
packaging materials to be heat treated inside the heat treatment furnace are taken from the front 
where the heat treatment furnace do or is located, without closing the doors of the heat treatment  
furnace.  
b) During Heat Treatment test  
1) Thirteen wood temperature meters are placed in wooden packaging materials to be heat 
treated, representing all parts of the furnace, and the wood tempe rature meter layout scheme in 
Annex -6 is exemplary. Wood temperature meters are placed in the thickest part of the wooden 
packaging material or the same material to represent the thickest area and the depth to measure 
the core temperature. At least two amb ient temperature meters are used to measure the ambient 
temperature.  
2) After all the conditions are met, heat treatment test is started. In each heat treatment 
application, the values taken from each wood and ambient temperature meter are monitored by 
ISPM 15 control officials in a computer controlled automation system for at least thirty minutes 
without interruption from the initial temperature values, until the midpoint temperature of 56 
°C or above is achieved.  
3) After the heat treatment application i s completed in accordance with the provisions of 
this Regulation and the batch number is given, it is seen that a photographic image of the heat 
treatment furnace doors and a ten -second motion video image are automatically recorded in the 
computer -controll ed automation system.  
4) After each heat treatment application, the printouts of the computer records of the heat 
treatment application, which contain a one -minute data to show that the wood thickness 
midpoint temperature has been obtained for at least thi rty minutes, are taken in at least two sets 
and approved by the employed heat treatment operator.  
5) After any period of heat treatment application values taken in one minute from the 
wood temperature meters and ambient temperature meters placed in the woo d packaging 
material in accordance with the wood temperature meter layout scheme in Annex -6, inside the 
heat treatment furnace cannot give the same temperature values until the end of the heat 
treatment application. If the temperature value of any two wood  temperature meters is the same 
until the end of the heat treatment application or the temperature values obtained from the 
ambient temperature meters are the same, the heat treatment test is invalid. In this case, the heat 
treatment test must be repeated.  
6) At the end of the heat treatment application, before the doors of the heat treatment 
furnace are opened and the heat -treated wooden packaging materials are removed from the heat 
treatment furnace, a photographic image and a ten -second motion video image are manually 
recorded in the computer -controlled automation system and the process is terminated.  
 (7) Dielectric heating method (DH) is applied to wooden packaging material, which is 
assembled or disassembled, after determining the conformity of the  first and second paragraph 
of this article, according to the following principles.  
a) Before the DH heat treatment application starts, a photographic image and a ten -second 
motion video image are manually recorded in the computer -controlled automation sys tem 
without closing the inlets and outlets of the conveyor system.  
b) Thirteen wood temperature meters are placed in wooden packaging materials to be heat 
treated, representing all parts of the furnace, and the wood temperature meter layout scheme in 
Annex -6 is exemplary. It can be applied on wooden packaging materials with a thickness not 
exceeding 20 cm and wood temperature meters are placed on the wooden surface in the heat 
treatment test to be performed in the businesses that will use this method. At le ast one wood 
temperature meter is placed in the core of the dense pieces of wood on the front and back of the 
heat treatment furnace.  22 
 c) After all the conditions are met heat treatment test is started. In each heat treatment 
application, the values taken f rom each wood and ambient temperature meter are monitored by 
ISPM 15 control officials in a computer controlled automation system for at least thirty minutes 
without interruption from the initial temperature values, until the midpoint temperature of 60 
°C or above is achieved.  
ç) The values taken from the wood temperature meters measuring the surface 
temperatures of the wood during the heat treatment application cannot be higher than the values 
taken from the wood temperature meters measuring the core tempe ratures of the wood.  
d) One minute after the inlets and outlets are closed and the DH heat treatment application 
starts, a photographic image and a ten -second motion video image are automatically recorded 
in the computer -controlled automation system.  
e) Af ter each heat treatment application, the printouts of the computer records containing 
one minute data are taken in at least two sets.  
f) After completing the DH heat treatment application in accordance with the provisions 
of this Regulation and giving the lot number, a photographic image and a ten -second motion 
video image are automatically recorded in the computer -controlled automation system and the 
process is terminated.  
(8) From the computer after the HT and/or DH heat treatment application test multipl e 
numeric printouts including graphic printout and temperature data taken at one -minute intervals 
are taken in at least two sets. The wood temperatures measured at thirteen different points are 
evaluated and the four hottest areas of the furnace are identi fied and written in Annex -6. 
 (9) If there is more than one heat treatment furnace in an business  with the same or 
different computer controlled automation system suitability of the furnaces for the heat 
treatment applications is determined by conducting a  heat treatment test for each system and 
furnace separately.  
 (10) Photographs of the interior and exterior areas of the heating system, computer -
controlled automation system and heat treatment furnace are taken  
(11) If it is determined by ISPM 15 control officers that the heat treatment test results 
comply with the provisions of this Regulation, an audit report based on the permit document in 
Annex -7 is issued regarding the suitability of the business's use of HT and / or DH sign. A copy 
of the multiple di gital computer printouts containing the photographs taken from the business , 
the graphic printout and the temperature data taken at one -minute intervals together with the 
Annex -7 report, together with a copy of the application documents specified in Annex -6 and 
Article 5, shall be sent to the authorized provincial directorate or directorate.  
 
Inspection of Companies with Permission Certificate  
ARTICLE 12 – (1) The inspections of the licensed businesses are carried out by the ISPM 
15 control officers at least twice a year, once in the first six months of the year and once in the 
second six months. Heat treatment operators are also present during the inspecti ons. 
(2) In licensed businesses inspections are carried out as follows:  
a) It is determined whether the business is located at the address specified in the permit 
document, whether it has changed the title, its address has changed due to the numbering done  
by the authorized institution or organization and the situations of quitting the work.  
b) Business officers are obliged to open the business to the audit in every inspection to be 
carried out by the ISPM 15 control officers, to provide all kinds of assist ance and convenience 
to the control officers, to provide the information and documents to the ISPM 15 control officers 
completely and correctly.  23 
 c) It is determined whether the computer -controlled automation system and the heating 
system of the heat treat ment furnace in the business  are in the place and in the number specified 
in the Annex -5 document approved by the authorized commission.  
ç) In the Article 6 of this Regulation of the business  It is determined whether it has lost 
any of the conditions requi red to meet.  
d) Whether or not the business has taken any action contrary to any of the principles stated 
in Annex -1 and Articles 7 and 8 of this Regulation is determined by sampling method.  
e) If a situation is found to be contrary to any of the principles specified in Articles 7 and 
8 and in Annex -1, a heat treatment test is carried out if requested.  
(3) All the issues determined in the audits are written in the inspection reports in Annex -
10. A copy of the inspection report, to be issued in two copies, is given to the operating authority 
being inspected.  
(4) The audit minutes included in Annex -10, which are prepared during the year and 
contain the issues that require the cancellation of the permit, are sent to the authorized provincial 
directorat e or directorate without waiting. In addition, the data of the inspections carried out 
during the period are written in the table in Annex -11 until the end of June at the latest in the 
first period and by the end of December at the latest in the second per iod, and sent to the 
authorized provincial directorate or directorate for information, and to the General Directorate 
as information.  
(5) ISPM 15 control officers assigned by the General Directorate may also participate in 
the inspections of the licensed b usinesses as observers.  
 
Unlicensed business, supplier, user, HT/DH heat treatment furnace installation 
permit business and marking apparatus sales permit business inspection  
ARTICLE 13 – (1) In businesses that do not have a permit, which has complaints or 
reported that they have made ISPM 15 marking, the inspection is carried out by the ISPM 15 
control officers to determine whether ISPM 15 marking has been made. The matters determined 
in the audit are specified in the reports to be issued.  
(2) Suppliers are  inspected at least once a year by the provincial directorate or ISPM 15 
control officers working in the directorate. The data of the inspections are written in the table 
in Annex -12 until the end of December at the latest, and sent to the authorized provi ncial 
directorate or directorate for necessary, and to the General Directorate as information, together 
with Annex -11.. 
(3) Inspection of users is carried out at least once a year by ISPM 15 control officers 
working in the provincial directorate or directorate in at least one of the users whose address is 
in their own province, among the users who are found to be selling wo oden packaging materials 
in the logbooks kept by the licensed businesses  and suppliers. Inspections are carried out that 
whether the security hologram heat treatment printouts in the sales invoice and/or delivery note 
attached to the user by the licensed b usiness or supplier and the sales information in the 
logbooks kept by the licensed business and suppliers are compatible with each other and 
whether the wooden packaging material is purchased in accordance with the provisions of 
Article 15 of this Regulati on. Inspections are written in the table in Annex -12 until the end of 
December at the latest, and sent to the authorized provincial directorate or directorate for 
necessary, and to the General Directorate as information, together with Annex -11.. 
(4) Busine sses that have obtained HT/DH heat treatment furnace installation permit are 
inspected at least once every two years by a four -person commission consisting of ISPM 15 
control officers determined by the General Directorate. In case of need, a computer engin eer 
and a mechanical engineer working in the central and provincial units of the Ministry and 
affiliated and related institutions are added and included in the commission.  24 
 (5) Businesses  that have obtained a marking apparatus sales permit are inspected at least 
once a year by the provincial directorate or ISPM 15 control officers working in the directorate.  
 
SIXTH SECTION  
Authorized Provincial Directorate and Directorates, Business , Work and Duties of 
the Authorized Commission, Responsibilities of Wood Pac kaging Material Suppliers 
and Users, Applications and Responsibilities of Those Who Will Install a Heat 
Treatment Furnace, Computer Controlled Automation System and Heating System  
Authorized provincial directorates and directorates  
ARTICLE 14 – (1) Applications of businesses that want to obtain a permit for the first 
time, applications for renewal and cancellation of permits of businesses that have a permit, 
applications for supplier registration certificate and marking apparatus sales permit applica tions 
are carried out by provincial directorates, directorates, authorized provincial directorates and 
directorates according to the principles set forth below.  
a) The authorized provincial directorate and directorates and the provinces it is affiliated 
with are as follows;  
1) Provinces affiliated to Denizli Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry; 
Kütahya, Muğla Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry  
2) Provinces affiliated to Kocaeli Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry; 
Sakarya, Bolu  and Düzce Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry  
3) Provinces affiliated to Ağrı Agricultural  Quarantine Directorate; Bitlis and  Van 
Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry  
4) Provinces affiliated to Ankara Agricultural  Quarantine Directorate; Kırıkkale, 
Kırşehir, Konya, Nevşehir, Aksaray, Çankırı, Çorum and Yozgat Provincial Directorates of 
Agriculture and Forestry  
5) Provinces affiliated to Antalya Agricultural Quarantine Directorate; Burdur, Isparta 
Provincial Directo rate of Agriculture and Forestry  
6) Provinces affiliated to Ardahan Agricultural Quarantine Directorate; Kars and Iğdır 
Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry  
7) Provinces affiliated to Artvin Agricultural Quarantine Directorate; Muş and Bingöl  
Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry  
8) Provinces affiliated to Bursa Agricultural Quarantine Directorate; Balıkesir, Bilecik  
and Eskişehir Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry  
9) Provinces affiliated to Edirne Agricultural Quarantine Directorate; Kırklareli and 
Çanakkale Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry  
10) Provinces affiliated to Hatay Agricultural Quarantine Directorate; Osmaniye, Kilis, 
Gaziantep, Kahramanma raş, Malatya, Adıyaman, Şanlıurfa, Diyarbakır and Elazığ Provincial 
Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry  
11) Provinces affiliated to the Istanbul Agricultural Q uarantine Directorate; Tekirdağ and 
Yalova  Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry  
12) Provinces affiliated to İzmir Agricultural Quarantine Directorate; Manisa, Aydın, 
Afyonkarahisar, Uşak Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry  
13) Provinces affiliated to Mersin Agricultural Quarantine Directorate; Karaman, Niğde, 
Adana, Ka yseri and Sivas Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry  
14) Provinces affiliated to Samsun Agricultural Quarantine Directorate; Zonguldak, 
Bartin, Karabuk, Kastamonu, Sinop, Amasya, Ordu and Tokat  Provincial Directorate of 
Agriculture and Forest ry  25 
 15) Provinces affiliated to Şırnak Agricultural Quarantine Directorate; Mardin, Batman, 
Siirt, Hakkari Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry  
16) Provinces affiliated to Trabzon Agricultural Quarantine Directorate; Giresun, 
Gümüşhane, Bayburt, Erzincan, Erzurum, Rize and Tunceli Provincial Directorate of 
Agriculture and Forestry  
b) Applications for renewal and cancellation of licenses of businesses that want to obtain 
a permit for the first time and businesses that have a permit, applic ations for supplier registration 
certificates of suppliers and applications for marking apparatus sales permits of businesses that 
will sell marking apparatus are done by applying to the directorate in provinces where there is 
a directorate, and to the pro vincial directorate in other provinces.  
c) All applications made are sent by the provincial directorates and directorates to the 
authorized provincial directorate or directorates to which they are affiliated.  
ç) All applications made are evaluated and dec ided by the authorized provincial 
directorate or the authorized commission established in the directorates.  
d) The authorized commission is formed as stated below and performs the following 
tasks;  
1) It consists of a head of commission to be determined by the authorized provincial 
directorate or directorate, and a total of three members, two members.  
2) The head of the authorized commission is the provincial director in the authorized 
provincial di rectorate or the deputy provincial director to be assigned by the provincial director 
or the plant production and phytosanitary branch manager, and the director in the authorized 
directorates.  
3) Two members are selected from among ISPM 15 control officer s determined by the 
authorized provincial directorate or directorate.  
4) In the absence of full members, substitute members determined by the authorized 
provincial directorate or directorate to attend the authorized commission meeting attend the 
meetings. The substitute of the chairman of the commission is the deputy provincial director or 
a branch manager to be determined by the provincial director in the authorized provincial 
directorate, and the assistant director in the authorized directorates. The auth orized provincial 
directorate or two substitute members to be determined by the directorate are selected among 
ISPM 15 control officers.  
5) Authorized provincial directorates and directorates may assign ISPM 15 control 
officers in the provincial directorat es subordinate to them, in case of need, to serve as full and 
substitute members in the authorized commission, with the approval of the General Directorate, 
for a period of 1 year on the days of commission meetings. The term of office of those assigned 
in this way cannot exceed three days, excluding travel. The domestic temporary travel 
allowances of the appointed are paid from the revolving fund budget of the authorized 
provincial directorate or directorate.  
6) Authorized provincial directorates and direct orates have at least four ISPM 15 control 
officers, taking into account the number of members in the commission work.  
7) The head of the authorized provincial directorate or the authorized commission in the 
directorates and two members who are ISPM 15 cont rol officers must not have taken part in the 
inspections of the new permission certificate, document renewal, supplier registration 
certificate, marking apparatus sales permit and cancellation applications that will come to the 
agenda of the authorized com mission. The inspections of the applications that will come to the 
agenda of the authorized commission are carried out by ISPM 15 control officers who do not 
take part in the authorized commission.  
e) The General Directorate may appoint a member as an obse rver to the authorized 
provincial directorate and the authorized commission formed by the directorates. The observer 26 
 member appointed by the General Directorate does not have the right to vote in the decisions 
taken. When deemed necessary, the Directorate General may establish a commission consisting 
of ISPM 15 control officers, the number of which will be determined by itself, to oversee the 
decisions of the authorized commission.  
f) In the event that the authorized provincial directorate or the authorized  commission 
formed in the directorates fail or fail to fulfill their duties, a chairman and two members are 
determined by the General Directorate from among ISPM 15 control officers working in the 
central and provincial units of the Ministry and affiliated  and related institutions. It can create 
an authorized commission and assign it to the authorized provincial directorate or directorates 
to evaluate the applications made to the authorized provincial directorate or directorates that 
month. The authorized c ommission established by the General Directorate shall continue to 
work until the authorized provincial directorate or directorates re -establish the authorized 
commission.  
(2) The authorized commission does not convene in the absence of an application. In the 
event of an application, it meets once a month in the last week of the month with the 
participation of three full members on a date to be determined by the authorized provincial 
directorate or directorate in order to evaluate the applications made unti l the twenty -fifth of that 
month. In case the number of applications or the number of applications to be given an opinion 
is high, it can meet more than once a month. The authorized commission decides with the 
absolute majority of the members. The substitu te chairman or substitute members attend the 
meetings where the principal chairman or members cannot be present. The vote of the substitute 
member who does not attend the meeting is equivalent to the votes of the permanent members.  
(3) Secretariat services  of the authorized commission are carried out by the authorized 
provincial directorate and directorate. The General Directorate checks the compliance of the 
documents submitted to the General Directorate by the directorate or provincial directorate 
about t he applications made within the scope of this Regulation and which should result in the 
decision of the Competent Commission and makes the necessary correspondences about the 
documents before the Competent Commission meeting.  
(4) The authorized commission carries out the following duties regarding the applications 
that reach the authorized provincial directorate and directorate through the provincial 
directorate or directorate, and which are included in the agenda of the authorized commission 
after determin ing their compliance with the provisions of this Regulation:  
 a) It discusses and decides on the applications in the first paragraph of Article 5, 
subparagraphs (a), (b) and (c) of the third paragraph, and the applications in the fourth and fifth 
paragraph s of this Regulation, and the applications specified in the first subparagraph (a) of the 
first paragraph of Article 17.  
b) It discusses and decides on the documents regarding the applications of businesses  that 
require inspection as a basis for the permit  document specified in subparagraph (d) of the third 
paragraph of Article 5 of this Regulation, the place of operation, the location of the heat 
treatment furnace in the business  or the heat treatment furnace has changed.  
c) Cancels the authorization certificate, ISPM 15 marking authorizations in the cases 
specified in the first paragraph of Article 21 of this Regulation.  
ç) In the cases in the first paragraph of Article 22, the wooden packaging material supplier 
registration certificate and the markin g apparatus sales permit shall be cancelled.  
d) It decides the objections made by the businesses whose license, supplier registration 
certificate and marking apparatus sales permit has been cancelled.  
(5) The authorized provincial directorate and directora te evaluate applications included 
in subparagraphs (ç), (e) and (f) of the third paragraph of Article 5 of this Regulation and 
documents regarding the place of operation, the location of the heat treatment furnace in the 27 
 business  and the applications of th e businesses  whose heat treatment furnace has not changed 
and specified in subparagraph (d) and make a decision without taking them into the agenda of 
the authorized commission.  
(6) The authorized provincial directorate and the directorate call ISPM 15 con trol officers 
working in the provinces affiliated to it once a year to evaluate the implementations, if needed. 
The domestic temporary travel allowances of the participants of the meeting are met from the 
operating budget of the provincial directorate or d irectorate where ISPM 15 control officers 
work.  
 
Responsibilities of Wood Packaging Material Suppliers and Users  
ARTICLE 15 – (1) The responsibilities of suppliers and users of wooden packaging 
materials used in export are as follows:  
a) Suppliers and users  who received wood packaging material with heat treatment 
application, ISPM 15 marking and traceability marking from the licensed business receive the 
delivery by checking the invoice or dispatch documents on which the safety hologram heat 
treatment output , type, size, quantity, batch and furnace number and heat treatment outputs and 
the information on the outputs are written as explanations. These documents are kept for at least 
2 years. The information written on the safety hologram heat treatment output,  the date, type, 
size, quantity, batch and furnace number and the invoice or waybill documents are compared 
and if it is not compatible, purchased wooden packaging material is not accepted by users or 
suppliers. In case it is determined that it has been ac cepted and used in exports by the users and 
traded by the suppliers, although it is not compatible, users and suppliers are deemed to have 
ISPM 15 marking without obtaining a permit.  
b) If the supplier who purchases wood packaging material or heat treatmen t service that 
has ISPM 15 marking and traceability marking by applying heat treatment from a licensed 
business , sells these wooden packaging materials that it has purchased to another supplier or 
user  
1) In case all wooden packaging materials are sold wi th a single invoice and/or waybill, 
stamps and signs the photocopy of the wet -signed, security hologram heat treatment output 
attached to the invoice and / or waybill issued by the operator with a permit, with the stamp 
belonging to her own business  and gi ves the wooden packaging materials to the user or other 
supplier to which it sells, by adding it to the sales invoice and/or delivery note attached as 
specified in subparagraph (a) of the first paragraph of this article. The copy of the invoice and 
/ or wa ybill that it has issued is kept by attaching the original copy of the heat treatment printout 
with wet signed security hologram as an attachment. Information pertaining to this sales 
transaction is written in the supplier registry. These documents are kep t for at least 2 years. It 
is judged that the suppliers who act otherwise have made ISPM 15 marking without obtaining 
a permit.  
2) In case all of the wooden packaging materials are sold piecemeal with more than one 
invoice and/or waybill, reproduces the he at treatment printout with wet signed security 
hologram attached to the invoice and/or waybill issued by the authorized operator, piece by 
piece, with a photocopy of the number of invoices and/or waybills it has issued and gives these 
wooden packaging mate rials to the users it sells or to other suppliers by adding it to the sales 
invoice and/or waybill issued as specified in subparagraph (a) of the first paragraph of this 
article. It keeps the name of the user or supplier on the invoice and/or waybill, whic h it sells 
piece by piece, on the back side of the wet signed security hologram heat treatment output that 
remains with it. Information pertaining to this sales transaction is written in the supplier registry. 
These documents are kept for at least 2 years.  It is judged that the suppliers who act otherwise 
have made ISPM 15 marking without obtaining a permit.  28 
 3) Suppliers record the lot number, type, size and quantity information on the heat 
treatment printout with security hologram attached to the purchase invoice and/or delivery note 
of the wooden packaging material in the "wooden packaging material received" section of the 
supplier registry. In accordance with the type, size and quantity information in the received 
section, it records the information about  the sale to which user and supplier these products were 
sold to in the "wooden packaging material sold" section. The amount of wooden packaging 
material written in the sold section cannot be more than the amount of wooden packaging 
material written in the  purchased section. It is judged that the suppliers who act otherwise have 
made ISPM 15 marking without obtaining a permit.  
c) Users are obliged to use wooden packaging materials in accordance with the provisions 
of this Regulation and to obtain them from businesses with permission or supplier registration 
certificates on the Ministry website. Wooden packaging materials cannot be purchased for 
export from businesses whose information is not available on the Ministry website.  
ç) Users of wooden packaging materials use wood packaging materials with the most 
recent heat treatment application, ISPM 15 marking and traceability marking in exports.  
d) Wooden packaging materials suppliers and users cannot keep together wood packaging 
materials with heat treatment  application, ISPM 15 marking and traceability marking, and 
unmarked wooden packaging materials.  
e) When using wooden packaging materials with ISPM 15 marking and traceability 
marking, users of wooden packaging materials are responsible for ensuring the qu arantine 
conditions of these materials from the time the wooden packaging materials are received from 
the licensed company or the supplier to the departure of the goods from our country.  
f) The suppliers of wooden packaging materials are responsible for pr oviding quarantine 
conditions from the time the wooden packaging materials bearing the ISPM 15 mark and 
traceability marking are received from the licensed company until it is delivered to the user or 
another supplier.  
g) Suppliers and users of wooden packaging materials cannot perform any repair or 
reproduction in wood packaging material that has been applied heat treatment, ISPM 15 
marking and traceability marking.  
 
Applications and responsibilities of those who will install a heat treatment furnace, 
computer -controlled automation system and heating system  
ARTICLE 16 – (1) Companies that can perform heat treatment in accordance with the 
provisions of this Regulation and will install equipment for the installation of a heat treatment 
furnace shall obtai n an HT/DH heat treatment installation permit from the General Directorate. 
Applications made by companies that have not obtained HT/DH heat treatment furnace 
installation permit shall not be evaluated by the directorate or provincial directorate. In case it 
is determined that the businesses  with HT/DH heat treatment furnace installation permit have 
taken action against the provisions of this article, it is judged that the users have made ISPM 15 
marking without obtaining a permit.  
a) Businesses  wishing to obtain an HT/DH heat treatment furnace installation permit shall 
apply to the General Directorate together with the Annex -16 certificate and the originals of the 
documents in its annex, or approved by the institution that issued the document or  approved by 
the General Directorate on condition that the original is shown.  
b) Businesses  that will obtain and receive HT/DH heat treatment furnace installation 
permit are inspected by a commission of at least four people, who are ISPM 15 control office rs, 
determined by the General Directorate, provided that the application documents are appropriate. 
The members of the commission consist of one ISPM 15 control officer from the General 
Directorate and three from the Ministry's provincial units and affilia ted and related institutions. 29 
 The head of the commission is the ISPM 15 control officer at the Headquarters. In the absence 
of full members, the audits are carried out by substitute members. In order to participate in the 
audits, reserve members are determ ined by the General Directorate among ISPM 15 control 
officers working in the central and provincial units of the Ministry and affiliated and related 
institutions. Audit reports are valid with the unanimous vote of the commission members. In 
case of need, a computer engineer and a mechanical engineer working in the central and 
provincial units of the Ministry and affiliated and related institutions are included in the 
commission.  
c) The commission formed by the General Directorate from ISPM 15 control offic ers 
prepares the inspection report based on the HT/DH heat treatment furnace installation permit 
document in Annex -17, if the documents are correct and compatible as a result of the 
examination made at the address of the applicant business . In the event th at the inspection report 
based on the HT/DH heat treatment furnace installation permit certificate made in the facility 
is appropriate, the HT/DH heat treatment furnace installation permit document specified in 
Annex -18 is issued by the General Directorate . 
ç) Businesses  that have HT/DH heat treatment furnace installation permit are inspected 
every two years by a four -person commission, which is an ISPM 15 control officer determined 
by the General Directorate. The members of the commission consist of one IS PM 15 control 
officer from the General Directorate and three from the Ministry's central and provincial units 
and affiliated and related institutions. In case of need, a computer engineer and a mechanical 
engineer working in the central and provincial unit s of the Ministry and affiliated and related 
institutions are included in the commission. Annex -19 audit report of the audit is prepared.  
d) Businesses  for which an HT/DH heat treatment furnace installation permit is issued 
cannot use any system that has n ot been authorized by the Ministry, other than the computer -
controlled automation system of the HT/DH heat treatment furnace permitted by the Ministry, 
in their installations.  
 (2)In the heat treatment furnace, computer -controlled automation system, radio 
frequency, microwave and other heating systems that businesses  for which HT/DH heat 
treatment furnace installation permit is issued have installed and approved by the authorized 
provincial directorate or the authorized commission in the directorates, they cannot make 
changes for any reason such as modification, revision, update without informing the provincial 
directorate or directorate in writing.  
a) Businesses  for which HT/DH heat treatment furnace installation permit is issued, 
cannot make any changes by  remote access or direct intervention on the recorded data and 
information of the heat treatment application of the computer controlled automation systems, 
which they have installed and approved by the authorized provincial directorate or the 
authorized co mmission in the directorates.  
b) Software application in computer controlled automation system should be capable of 
being printed a one -page heat treatment printout for HT heat treatment furnaces, which is at 
least thirty minutes at 56 °C and above, after it has been completed in accordance with the 
provisions of this Regulation and automatically recorded the one -minute numerical data of the 
relevant batch in the automation system and for DH heat treatment furnaces, one page heat 
treatment printout for at l east one minute at 60 °C and above. The software system should be 
capable of not giving a one -page heat treatment output until the heat treatment application is 
completed in accordance with the provisions of this regulation.  
c) Heat treatment has been app lied in accordance with the provisions of this Regulation, 
the batch number has been given, and only the first page of the printouts of the heat treatment 
application must not contain the heat treatment date, type, size, amount, batch number and 30 
 furnace nu mber. The heat treatment date, type, size, quantity, batch number and furnace number 
information on the first page of the heat treatment printout should be at the top of all pages.  
ç) The software belonging to the computer -controlled automation system should display 
the temperature values taken from wood temperature meters and ambient temperature meters 
from the beginning to the end of the heat treatment application, without rounding the decimal 
part to two digits after the whole number. Values taken fr om wood temperature meters and 
ambient temperature meters should be such that they show the actual temperature values until 
the end of the heat treatment application.  
 (3) Companies that have obtained HT/DH heat treatment furnace installation permit shall 
provide the necessary theoretical and practical training to the heat treatment operator of the 
business  about the heat treatment furnaces they have established, comput er-controlled 
automation system, radio frequency, microwave and other heating systems.  
(4) Companies that obtain HT/DH heat treatment furnace installation permit are obliged 
to provide technical and spare parts service regarding the heat treatment furnace,  computer -
controlled automation system, radio frequency, microwave and other heating systems they have 
established. In addition, it carries out the maintenance, annual controls and maintenance of the 
heat treatment furnace, computer -controlled automation s ystems, heating systems they have 
established in accordance with the conditions of this Regulation, and submits the Annex -20 
document they have prepared to the General Directorate until the fifteenth day of December of 
each year. The period between the yea r of maintenance of a licensed business  and the 
maintenance of the other year cannot be less than eleven months. The Annex -20 document 
cannot be issued without maintenance and controls.  
(5) The updated name list and contact information of the companies tha t have obtained 
the HT/DH heat treatment furnace installation permit are published on the Ministry website by 
the General Directorate.  
 
Responsibilities of businesses with marking apparatus sales permit, permits and 
marking apparatus sales permits  
ARTICLE 17 – (1) Businesses with permission certificates, whose applications are 
approved by the authorized commission, whose ISPM 15 mark number is issued by issuing a 
permit on behalf of their businesses , and whose ISPM 15 mark number and names are published 
on the Ministry's website and after the heat treatment applied in accordance with the provisions 
of this Regulation, businesses  that will manufacture or sell marking apparatus to be used in 
ISPM 15 ma rking to wooden packaging materials in accordance with the ISPM 15 standard and 
the principles specified in Annex -1 of this Regulation will follow the rules below:  
a) Businesses that want to obtain a marking apparatus sales permit, whether they are 
manufac turers or sellers apply to the directorate in provinces where there is a directorate, and 
to the provincial directorate in other provinces with Annex -21 document, with the Annex -21 
document in the annex of this Regulation, together with the original docume nt or the certified 
copy of the document, provided that the original or approved by the directorate or provincial 
directorate. As a result of the examination made at the address of the applicant business  by the 
ISPM 15 control officers of the directorate o r provincial directorate; if it is determined that the 
Annex -21 document and the information in its annex are correct, the Annex -22 document is 
issued for the business  and sent to the authorized provincial directorate or directorate, together 
with the Anne x-21 document, for evaluation. The eligible businesses are approved by the 
authorized commission. Appendix -23 marking apparatus sales permit is issued by the 
authorized provincial directorate or directorate. ISPM 15 marking apparatus cannot be sold in 
businesses  that have not issued a marking apparatus sales permit by the authorized provincial 
directorate or directorate. If it is determined it is deemed that ISPM 15 marking is made without 31 
 obtaining a permit. Businesses with a marking apparatus sales permit  are obliged to comply 
with the following:  
1) On behalf of businesses with permits that will have a marking apparatus made for the 
first time, they cannot make a marking apparatus until the Annex -24 certificate of conformity 
or the conformity certificate i ssued by the provincial directorate or the directorate, indicating 
that a new one can be made instead of the worn and deteriorated marking apparatus.  
2) No sign other than the logo specified in Annex -1 of this Regulation can be used to be 
used in ISPM 15 m arking. No pictures, figures, text -like expressions, including for advertising 
purposes, are included in the ISPM 15 mark inside the marking apparatus.  
3) Businesses that make digital markings (painting with cartridges or other methods) 
within a certain so ftware program cannot load any other marking number into the marking 
apparatus they sell, other than the sign given to the licensed business.  
4) Business with marking apparatus sales license enumerates the registration number 
given to it by means of embos sing, engraving, laser, etc., on a suitable part of any of its other 
surfaces other than the stamping surface of the marking apparatus that it has manufactured or 
sold, and the number of apparatus it has made to the licensed business  after the registration  
number. In this way, the marking apparatus cannot be sold without writing the serial number. 
The serial numbers of the sold marking apparatus are recorded in the registry kept on the basis 
of the licensed business . The registry is shown to ISPM 15 control lers during inspections.  
b) The following principles are complied with by the businesses with a permit:  
1) Business  with a permit purchases the marking apparatus it needs from businesses  that 
have a marking apparatus sales certificate authorized by the Min istry. In case of purchase from 
unauthorized businesses , it is judged that the licensed business  has made ISPM 15 marking 
without obtaining a permit.  
2) Businesses  entitled to obtain a permit apply to the provincial directorate or directorate 
in order to purchase marking apparatus following the publication of the marking number and 
names given to their businesses  on the Ministry website.  
3) An Annex -24 certificate of conformity is given to the licensed business  by the 
provincial directorate or directorate to make the marking apparatus containing the marking 
number belonging to the licensed business . Appendix -24 gives the certificate of conformity to 
the business tha t will have the marking apparatus made and the marking apparatus sales permit 
document.  
4) Before the permit certificate is handed over to it by the provincial directorate or the 
directorate, the business with a permit gives the undertaking in Annex -25 tha t there is no other 
marking apparatus other than the invoice and the number of which is specified in the invoice.  
5) Provincial directorate or directorate, without a copy of the invoice of the marking 
apparatus and Annex -25 undertaking, permits are not issued to the businesses .  
6) In the business  with a permit, the heat treatment application is started after the perm it 
is delivered to it. The heat treatment furnace, computer -controlled automation system and 
heating system cannot be used without submitting the permit. In case of use, it is decided that 
the licensed business  has made ISPM 15 marking without obtaining a permit.  
7) If the licensed business  needs additional marking apparatus after receiving the permit, 
it applies to the provincial directorate or directorate with a petition. In addition, they cannot use 
the newly purchased marking apparatus without submittin g the invoice and the current Annex -
25 undertaking to the provincial directorate or directorate. In case of use, it is decided that the 
licensed business  has made ISPM 15 marking without obtaining a permit.  
8) In case of detection of another marking appara tus other than the number specified in 
the Annex -25 undertaking document of the licensed business  during the inspections of the 32 
 licensed businesses , it is decided that the licensed business  has made ISPM 15 marking without 
obtaining a permit certificate.  
9) A licensed business cannot keep any marking apparatus that does not belong to its own 
business. If it is determined that they have a marking apparatus belonging to our country code, 
TR or other country codes in their business , it is decided that the licensed business  has made 
ISPM 15 marking without obtaining a permit.  
c) If any of the marking apparatuses, the number of which is specified in the Annex -25 
undertaking document owned by the licensed business , becomes unusable due  to wear or 
deterioration, a new one can be made instead. In this case, the following principles apply.  
1) An business  with a permit applies to the provincial directorate or directorate with a 
petition stating the feature of the marking apparatus (burning,  digital painting, etc.)  
2) The Provincial Directorate or Directorate receives the worn or damaged marking 
apparatus, which is included in the Annex -25 undertaking document of the business  with the 
marking apparatus sales certificate, for destruction and g ives a letter of conformity stating that 
a new one can be made instead.  
3) Based on the conformity letter issued by the provincial directorate or the directorate, 
the business  with the marking apparatus sales certificate receives and destroys the worn or 
deteriorated marking apparatus. Instead, it makes a new one as much as it destroyed and delivers 
it to the licensed business . 
4) The business  with the permit shall deliver the invoice and the updated Annex -25 
undertaking document of the rebuilt marking appa ratus to the provincial directorate or 
directorate. The renewed marking apparatus cannot be used until the invoice of the renewed 
marking apparatus and the updated Annex -25 undertaking document are submitted. In case of 
use it is decided that the licensed business  has made ISPM 15 marking without obtaining a 
permit.  
5) If there is more than one automatic driving and marking line system in the licensed 
business  and if there is more than one fixed burning or digital marking system (painting with 
cartridge or other methods) in this business , this situation is also stated as an explanation in the 
Annex -25 undertaking document.  
i) The current name list and contact i nformation of the companies that have obtained the 
marking apparatus sales permit shall be published on the website of the Ministry by the 
authorized provincial directorate or directorate.  
 
SECTION SEVEN  
Administrative sanctions  
Suspension  
ARTICLE 18  – (1) In the following cases, businesses  with permits are given a period 
not exceeding six months in accordance with the provisions of subparagraph (e) of the first 
paragraph of Article 38 of the Law No. 5996, and during this period, the ISPM 15 and 
trace ability marking authorizations of the businesses  are suspended.  
a) In cases where the heat treatment furnace approved by the authorized commission 
specified in subparagraphs (a) and (b) of the third paragraph of Article 5 and subparagraph one 
of the subparagraph (c) changes  
b) If no heat treatment is applied to the bu siness to be transferred, as specified in 
subparagraph (d) of the third paragraph of Article 5, for more than one year from the date of 
the notarized transfer agreement until the permit is renewed by the authorized provincial 
directorate or directorate,  
c) In case heat treatment is not applied for a period of 1 year or longer as specified in 
subparagraph (k) of the first paragraph of Article 7  33 
 ç) In case of receipt of the external hard disk or computer case specified in subparagraph 
(n) of the first paragr aph of Article 7  
d) In cases where they are not in compliance with any of the conditions stipulated in 
Article 6,  
(2) In case a licensed business  has more than one heat treatment furnace, the suspension 
process is applied only for the heat treatment furnac e whose deficiency is detected. In 
accordance with the provisions of this Regulation, heat treatment application, ISPM 15 and 
traceability marking are continued in other heat treatment furnaces suitable for heat treatment 
application.  
(3) The marking appar atus of the businesses  whose ISPM 15 and traceability marking 
authorization has been suspended are received by ISPM 15 control officers with a report and 
kept at the directorate or provincial directorate. If the problems are eliminated within the given 
time, the suspension process is terminated and the marking apparatuses are returned to the 
business . 
(4) ISPM 15 and traceability marking authorization suspension procedure is applied by 
ISPM 15 control officers in accordance with the second paragraph of Arti cle 42 of the Law No. 
5996.  
(5) Implemented suspension procedures will be notified to the General Directorate for 
information, without waiting, to the authorized provincial directorate or directorate.  
 
Administrative fine  
ARTICLE 19 – (1) In the following cases, administrative fines specified in the 
subparagraph (e) of the first paragraph of Article 38 of Law No. 5996 are applied to the relevant 
businesses or persons:  
a) In case it is determined that the businesses with a permit are in  violation of any of the 
principles set forth in the third paragraph of Article 5 of this Regulation, Articles 7, 8 and 
Annex -1, and subparagraphs (b) and (c) of the first paragraph of Article 17.  
b) In case it is determined that the suppliers act in viola tion of any of the principles set 
forth in the fifth paragraph of Article 5, the second paragraph of Article 8, subparagraph (a) of 
the first paragraph of Article 20, and Article 15 of this Regulation.  
c) In case it is determined that the users have taken any action against any of the principles 
specified in the first paragraph of Article 7, subparagraph (c), the second paragraph of Article 
8 and Article 15 of this Regulation.  
ç) In case it is determined that the businesses  with HT/DH heat treatment furnace  
installation permit are in violation of any of the principles set forth in Article 16 of this 
Regulation.  
d) In case it is determined that the businesses with marking apparatus sales permits have 
made transactions contrary to any of the principles set for th in Article 17 of this Regulation.  
e) As a result of the evaluation to be made on the official document sent from the 
competent authority of the notifying country due to the notification made to the General 
Directorate from abroad about the wooden packag ing materials used with the exported product 
on the grounds that it does not comply with the ISPM 15 standard, and as a result of the 
inspection to be made by the ISPM 15 control officers in the provincial directorates and 
directorates, the following provi sions are applied:  
1) In case it is determined that the businesses  with a permit are in violation of any of the 
principles set forth in the third paragraph of Article 5, Articles 7, 8, 20, and Annex -1 of this 
Regulation.  34 
 2) In case it is determined that th e suppliers act in violation of any of the principles set 
forth in the fifth paragraph of Article 5, the second paragraph of Article 8, subparagraph (a) of 
the first paragraph of Article 15, and Article 20 of this Regulation.  
3) In case it is determined th at the users have taken any action against any of the principles 
specified in the first paragraph of Article 7, subparagraph (c), the second paragraph of Article 
8 and Article 15 of this Regulation.  
f) ISPM 15 marking for wooden packaging materials covered  by this Regulation without 
obtaining a permit.  
g) If it is determined that the licensed businesses  continue their activities despite the 
suspension process within the scope of Article 18, it is decided that the licensed business  has 
made marking without obtaining a marking permit document.  
(2) The administrative fines specified in the paragraph (ç) of the first paragraph of the 
article 41 of the Law numbered 5996 are applied to the business officials who act in 
contradiction with  the second paragraph of the article 12 of this Regulation.  
(3) In case it is determined that for the feedbacks received from abroad, as a result of the 
inspection to be carried out by ISPM 15 control officers, it is acted contrary to the articles 7, 8, 
th, 20 of the third paragraph of Article 5 of this Regulation and for the suppliers in Annex -1, 
any of the principles specified in the fifth paragraph of Article 5, the second paragraph of Article 
8, and Article 15 of this Regulation, the provisions of the s ixth paragraph of Article 31 of the 
Law No. 5996 are applied.  
(4) Administrative fines are applied by the provincial director in accordance with the 
second paragraph of the article 42 of the Law No. 5996.  
(5) Implemented administrative fines are reported t o the authorized provincial directorate 
or directorate, and to the General Directorate as information, without waiting.  
 
Unsuitable wooden packaging materials  
ARTICLE 20  – (1) In case that it is determined that ISPM 15 marking and traceability 
marking on w ooden packaging materials without obtaining a permit, and it is determined that 
the suppliers sell wooden packaging materials that do not comply with the ISPM 15 standard 
and the provisions of this Regulation, are in free circulation and cannot be document ed with an 
invoice and that there has been a transaction contrary to any of the principles set forth in Articles 
7 and 8 of this Regulation and Annex -1;  
a) It is decided that the ISPM 15 marking has been made without obtaining a permit from 
the suppliers and businesses without permit. The wooden packaging materials sold are 
prohibited from being placed on the market in accordance with item (a) of the first  paragraph 
of Article 32 of the Law No. 5996, those offered to the market are collected by the business  
marking in accordance with item (b) of the same paragraph. In case the wooden packaging 
materials are not collected by the business, they are collected by the relevant provincial 
directorate or directorate in accordance with the fourth paragraph of the ar ticle 42 of the Law 
No. 5996 a monthly payment period is given for the business to pay twice the withdrawal 
amount. ISPM 15 marks and traceability marks on the wooden packaging materials in question 
are destroyed by the marking company by scraping or paint ing. 
b) The placing on the market of the wood packaging materials with ISPM 15 marking and 
traceability marking of the licensed businesses  according to subparagraph (a) of the first 
paragraph of Article 32 of the Law No. 5996 is prohibited and the ones pla ced on the market 
are collected by the marking business  in accordance with subparagraph (b) of the same 
paragraph. In case the wooden packaging materials are not collected by the business, they are 
collected by the relevant provincial directorate or direct orate in accordance with the fourth 
paragraph of the article 42 of the Law No. 5996 a monthly payment period is given for the 
business to pay twice the withdrawal amount. ISPM 15 marks and traceability marks on the 35 
 wooden packaging materials in question ar e destroyed by the marking company by scraping or 
painting.  
 
Permission cancellation  
ARTICLE 21 – (1) In the following cases, the licenses of the relevant businesses  are 
cancelled.  
a) Although the permit of the business  is suspended according to the provis ions of the 
first paragraph of Article 18 of this Regulation, ISPM 15 and traceability marking authority is 
suspended, according to the provisions of subparagraph (e) of the first paragraph of Article 38 
of the Law No. 5996, if it is determined that the si tuation requiring suspension continues at the 
end of the given period.  
b) It is determined that the business does not have the address written in the permit 
document, except for the numbering studies carried out by the authorized institution or 
organizatio n. 
c) Determining that the business quits the work.  
ç) In case it is determined that false information and documents are given in the official 
documents submitted by the operators to the provincial directorate, directorate or General 
Directorate.  
d) Busine sses demanding the cancellation of the permit.  
(2) The permit, the permit of the businesses  whose ISPM 15 marking authorization has 
been revoked, and the ISPM 15 marking patterns are received by the ISPM 15 control officers. 
The received permit is sent to the authorized provincial directorate or directorate, and the sign 
patterns are destroyed.  
(3) Except for those canceled at the request of the businesses, the applications of the 
permit made by the businesses  within 2 years from the date of cancellation ar e not accepted.  
 
Cancellation of supplier registration certificate and marking apparatus sales 
certificate  
ARTICLE 22 – (1) In the following cases, the wooden packaging material supplier 
registration certificate and marking apparatus sales certificate of t he relevant businesses  
are cancelled.  
a) It is determined that the business has quit the business.  
b) It is determined that the business does not have the address written in the registration 
document, except for the numbering studies carried out by the aut horized institution or 
organization.  
ç) Identification of businesses' falsification or counterfeiting in official documents 
submitted to the provincial directorate or directorate.  
ç) Businesses that request the cancellation of their certificates.  
(2) The d ocuments of the businesses  whose wooden packaging material supplier 
registration certificate and marking apparatus sales certificate have been canceled are received 
by ISPM 15 control officers. The documents received are kept in the file of the business  at the 
provincial directorate or directorate.  
 
Cancellation of HT/DH heat treatment furnace installation permit  
ARTICLE 23 – (1) In the following cases, the HT/DH heat treatment furnace installation 
permit of the relevant businesses  is revoked.  
a) It is determined that the business has quit the business.  36 
 b) It is determined that the business does not have the address written in the registration 
document, except for the numbering studies carried out by the authorized institution or 
organization.  
ç) Identif ication of businesses' falsification or counterfeiting in official documents 
submitted to the provincial directorate or directorate or General Directorate.  
ç) The operators' request to cancel the HT/DH heat treatment furnace installation permit.  
a) d) In c ase of remote access or direct intervention on the recorded data and information 
of the heat treatment application of the computer -controlled automation systems that the 
businesses  set up and approved by the authorized provincial directorate or the authori zed 
commission in the directorates and in case it is determined that they have made changes in the 
data in a way that shows the inappropriate heat treatment applications as if the appropriate heat 
treatment application has been made according to the provis ions of this regulation.  
e) In case it is determined that the businesses  for which the HT/DH heat treatment furnace 
installation permit certificate approved by the Ministry is issued, have installed systems that 
have not been authorized by the Ministry, o ther than the computer -controlled automation 
system of the HT/DH heat treatment furnace approved by the Ministry.  
(2) Businesses  cannot apply for a re -installation permit for a period of 2 years if their 
installation permit is canceled under sub -clauses ( a), (b) and (c) of this article, and for a period 
of 1 year if they are canceled under sub -clause (ç).  
(3) Businesses  cannot apply for an installation permit again in case their installation 
permit is canceled within the scope of subparagraphs (d) and (e)  of this article.  
(4) For the business  whose installation permit has been canceled within the scope of 
subparagraphs (d) and (e) of this article in the event that the person or persons whose names are 
named as owner, partner or shareholder in the most rec ently published Turkish Trade Registry 
Gazette or Turkish Tradesmen and Craftsmen Registry, are the owner, partner or shareholder 
of businesses established or to be established under another title on the date the installation 
permit was revoked, applicatio ns made by these businesses  will not be accepted.  
(5) Documents of businesses  whose installation permit has been revoked are received by 
the provincial directorate or ISPM 15 control officers in charge of the directorate. The received 
installation permit is sent to the General Directorate.  
 
CHAPTER EIGHT  
Miscellaneous and Final Provisions  
Miscellaneous provisions  
ARTICLE 24  - (1) If the user has obtained permission to make ISPM 15 marking and 
traceability mark on wooden packaging materials to be used only in its export product, without 
a commercial purpose, both in the case of the user and the licensed business , these users write 
only the country name, export date and quantity information of the amount of heat -treated 
wooden packaging materials belonging to the relevant party in the sales section of ISPM 15 
logbooks, on which date and to which country they were used together with the exported 
product. They paste one copy of the security hologram on the heat treatment output of the 
relevant party and the other on the page where the sales information of ISPM 15 logbooks are 
written.  
(2) If businesses  that obtained a permit before the effective date of this Regulation, apply 
for a renewal of their permit after the date of entry into force of this Regulation, the sign number 
of 00 -000 codes specified in Annex -1 shall not be issued for these businesses . They continue 
to use the sign number in the permit, given to them before the effective date of this Regulation, 
as in the permit documents.  37 
 (3) In case the businesses  that obtained a permit before the effective date of this 
Regulation, apply for the cancel lation of the permit after the effective date of this Regulation 
and apply again to obtain a permit for the same sign number, for these businesses , the sign 
number of 00 -000 codes specified in Annex -1 is not issued. They continue to use the sign 
number on the canceled permit, which was given to them before the effective date of this 
Regulation, in the newly issued permit.  
(4) Provincial traffic code and business number of 00 -000 codes specified in Annex -1 are 
issued for businesses that have obtained a permi t after the date of entry into force of this 
Regulation.  
(5) Cancellation and certificate renewal applications of licensed businesses , applications 
of businesses  that will receive permits for the first time, applications of businesses  that will 
receive sup plier registration certificates, and information of businesses  applying for marking 
apparatus sales certificate is published on the official website of the Ministry by the authorized 
provincial directorate and directorate after the applications are approve d by the authorized 
commission.  
 (6) Within the scope of Article 4 of the Regulation on the Procedures and Principles to 
be Followed in the Delivery of Public Services and the Presidential Circular No. 2018/13, after 
the completion of "Reducing Bureaucracy and Digital Turkey" studies, wh en switching to 
Electronic Public Information Management System (KAYSIS), Turkish Trade Registry 
Gazette, Turkish Tradesmen and Craftsmen Registry Gazette, business opening and working 
license application documents and operating licenses included in the An nex-13, Annex -16 and 
Annex -20 document in subparagraphs (c) and (d) of the first paragraph of Article 5 of this 
Regulation are not required.  
 
Provisional Article  
ARTICLE 25 – (1) Among the businesses  that obtained a permit before the effective 
date of this  Regulation for businesses  with HT heat treatment furnaces smaller than 50 m³ 
specified in subparagraph (i) of the first paragraph of Article 4 of this Regulation in case they 
apply for renewal of their permit within the scope of subparagraphs (a), (b) and  (c) of the third 
paragraph of Article 5 after the effective date of this Regulation, they make HT heat treatment 
furnaces suitable for a minimum size of 50 m³. The permits of businesses  that do not make the 
HT heat treatment furnace suitable for a minimum  size of 50 m³ are not renewed.  
(2) Among the businesses  that obtained a permit before the effective date of this 
Regulation or which will obtain a permit after the effective date, for businesses that do not apply 
heat treatment and ISPM 15 marking for commercial purposes, but only apply heat treatment 
to woode n packaging materials that will be used for their own export products and make ISPM 
15 marking, minimum 50 m³ heat treatment furnace size specified in subparagraph (i) of the 
first paragraph of Article 4 of this Regulation and the provisions of the seventh  paragraph of 
this article are not required.  
(3) Among the businesses  that obtained a permit before the effective date of this 
Regulation or which will receive a permit after the effective date, only for businesses that apply 
heat treatment and ISPM 15 mar king to the components of fruit crates obtained from composite 
materials specified in sub -clause 'ç' of the first paragraph of the seventh article of this 
Regulation minimum 50 m³ heat treatment furnace size specified in subparagraph (i) of the first 
parag raph of Article 4 of this Regulation and the provisions of the seventh paragraph of this 
article are not required.  
(4) Businesses  that have obtained a permit before the effective date of this Regulation 
will submit the Annex -25 undertaking, which includes the number and information of the 
marking apparatus they own, to the provincial directorate or directorate in the province they 
operate until 31/3/2024. The permit documents of the businesses  that do not submit the Annex -38 
 25 commitment until this date are s uspended. At the end of the suspension process, the permit 
certificates of the businesses  that still do not give the Annex -25 undertaking will be canceled 
by the authorized commission.  
(5) Businesses  that obtained a permit before the effective date of this  Regulation shall 
submit the Annex -5 document in the annex of this Regulation to the provincial directorate or 
directorate in two copies until 30/6/2024. In the second six -month inspection of the licensed 
businesses  to be carried out by ISPM 15 control off icers between 1/7/2024 and 31/12/2024, 
appendix -5 documents given are approved on the condition that the heat treatment furnace, 
control room and heating system in the facility are in the place and number approved by the 
authorized commission. one of them is sent to the provincial directorate or directorate of the 
business  with a permit and the other one is sent to the authorized provincial directorate or 
directorate to be added to the file of the authorized provincial directorate or directorate.  
(6) Busine sses, whose headquarters and branches were given different ISPM 15 marking 
numbers before the effective date of this Regulation, can use the ISPM 15 marking number 
belonging to their headquarters for their branches by making use of the provisions specified  in 
subparagraph (c) of the second paragraph of Article 5 of this Regulation, upon request. In order 
for the branches to be able to use the ISPM 15 mark number belonging to the head office, the 
license of the branch must be renewed within the scope of the provisions specified in the third 
paragraph of the article 5 of this Regulation (f). In this case, the ISPM 15 mark number of the 
branch is canceled so that it will not be given to any business.  
(7) The validity of the employment contracts signed between t he licensed businesses  and 
the heat treatment operators employed before the effective date of this Regulation shall 
continue. (7) The validity of the employment contracts signed between the licensed businesses  
and the heat treatment operators employed befo re the effective date of this Regulation will 
continue.  
(8) Businesses  installing heat treatment furnace, computer -controlled automation system 
and heating system before this Regulation is published will apply to the Ministry and obtain 
HT/DH heat treatmen t furnace installation permit documents until 31/12/2023 in accordance 
with the provisions of this Regulation. As of 1/1/2024, businesses that do not have an HT/DH 
heat treatment furnace installation permit cannot install a heat treatment furnace, computer -
controlled automation system and heating system.  
(9) Businesses  that have obtained a permit before the effective date of this Regulation can 
see the information of the businesses  that own the computer -controlled automation system they 
are using in the lis t of businesses  that have HT/DH heat treatment furnace installation permit 
on the official website of the Ministry until 31/12/2023. It has these businesses install the 
camera system until 31/12/2024. If the business , which owns the computer -controlled 
automation system they use, has not received approval from the Ministry until 1/1/2024 to 
obtain the HT/DH heat treatment furnace installation permit it replaces the computerized 
automation systems they use with the computer -controlled automation system of an y business  
that has an HT/DH heat treatment furnace installation permit approved by the Ministry until 
31/12/2024  and has these businesses install the camera system at the same time. In this case, 
the permit is renewed within the scope of subparagraph (b) of the third paragraph of Article 5 
of this Regulation. The permit certificates of the businesses  that do not repl ace the computer -
controlled automation system with the computer -controlled automation systems of the 
businesses  that have the HT/DH heat treatment furnace installation permit document approved 
by the Ministry and that do not have the camera system installe d until 31/12/2024 are 
suspended. At the end of the suspension process, the permit documents of the businesses  whose 
computer -controlled automation system has not changed and the camera system installation has 
not been completed will be canceled by the aut horized commission.  39 
 (10) Until the establishment of Edirne and Ardahan Agricultural Quarantine Directorates 
is completed all works and processes of Edirne Agricultural Quarantine Directorate and its 
affiliated provinces are carried out by Istanbul Agricult ural Quarantine Directorate and all 
works and processes of Ardahan Agricultural Quarantine Directorate and its affiliated provinces 
are carried out by Artvin Agricultural Quarantine Directorate.  
 
Abolished regulation  
ARTICLE 26 – (1) Regulation concerning the subjection of wooden package materials 
to heat treatment process and their marking published in the Official Gazette dated 25/5/2019 
and numbered 30784.  
 
Enforcement  
ARTICLE 27  – (1) Article 16 of this Regulation shall enter into force on 01/01/2024  and 
other articles shall enter into force on 30/06/ 2024.  
 
Execution  
ARTICLE 28 – (1) The provisions of this Regulation are executed by the Agriculture 
and Forestry Minister.  
 
Annexes:  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 40 
 ANNEX -1 
 
APPROVED MEASURES AND ISPM 15 MARKING BASES  
REGRADING WOODEN PACKAGE MATERIALS  
 
 (1) Approved measures on wooden packaging materials within the scope of this Regulation are 
listed below.  
 a)Use of unshelled wood:  
 The wooden packaging materials covered by this Regulation must be made of unshelled wood.  
 b) Heat treatment with heat treatment furnace (HT):  
 It is the heat treatment application of the wooden packaging materials within the scope of this 
Regulation in accordance with the principles specified in the Regulation, and its marking is HT.  
 c) Heat treatment application with dielectric heating method (DH):  
 It is the heat treatment application with dielectric heating method of the wooden packaging 
materials within the scope of this Regulation in accordance with the principles specified in the 
Regulation, and its marking is DH.  
 ç) Fumigation process with Methyl Bromide (MB):  
 This is the process of cleaning wooden packaging materials covered by this Regulation from 
pests with MB gas and this technique cannot be used in our coun try. 
 d) Fumigation process with Sulfur Fluoride (SF):  
 This is the process of cleaning wooden packaging materials covered by this Regulation from 
pests with SF gas and this technique cannot be used in our country.  
 (2) ISPM 15 marking:  
 a) One of the ISPM  15 sign examples shown below by the licensed business is used to document 
that wooden packaging materials bearing this marking have been processed and checked under an 
approved measure.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 b) The ISPM 15 marking includes:  
 1) Symbol: It is the inscription in the spike emblem of IPPC.  
 2) XX: It is a two -letter country code (TR). The country code is separated from the number of 
the licensed business with a dash.  
 3) (00 -000): It is the specific number given by the authorized provincial directorate or 
directorate, with a permit document. (00: provincial traffic code, 000: business number)  
41 
  4) YY: Regarding approved measures used, IPPC abbreviations about the type of heat treatment 
applied (HT or DH). These abbreviations are located under the order of the country code and the license 
number, or are separated by a dash if they are in the same order.  
 5) No other symbols or information can be found inside the ISPM 15 marking.  
 c) ISPM 15 marking should be;  
 1) must comply with one of the exam ples shown in this Annex.  
 2) must be legible,  
 3) must be Permanent and immovable.  
 4) must not be drawn by hand (may be burning, stamp etc.).  
 5) Since red and orange colors are used for labeling hazardous materials, these colors must be 
avoided in marki ng. 
 6) must be made legibly at least on two opposite sides of the wooden packaging materials that 
are heat treated.  
 7) must be done on each piece of wooden material, which is heat treated and dismantled, without 
disassembling.  
 8) must be done at short i ntervals and over the entire length in the stacking boards where heat 
treatment  
 is applied.  
 (3) Traceability marking is done in accordance with the following principles.  
 a)One of the traceability marking examples shown below is used to follow the proces s of the 
wooden packaging material marked with the ISPM 15 in accordance with the provisions of this 
regulation from the licensed business to the user.  
 b) The sample specified in paragraph (2) of this Annex -1 document cannot be used within the 
ISPM 15 marking.  
 c) ISPM 15 marking should be applied to any part or part of the wooden packaging material that 
is heat treated outside the applied area and at le ast one surface.  
 ç) must be legible,  
 d) must be Permanent and immovable.  
 e) must not be drawn by hand (may be burning, stamp etc.).  
 f) Since red and orange colors are used for labeling hazardous materials, these colors must be 
avoided in marking.  
 g) must be applied to at least two ends and over the entire length in the stacking boards where 
heat treatment is applied.  
 ğ) AA refers to the furnace number.  
 h) BB refers to the year.  
 ı) CC refers to batch number.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
42 
                                                                                                                                                Annex -2 
Annex – 2/A 
Application Petitions  
 
Subject: Application for Obtaining a Permit for the First Time                                   ……./……/ 20…  
TO DIRECTORATE OF …….  
We would like to obtain a wood packaging material marking permit. The application documents required 
within the scope of the regulation are attached. Please be advised.  
Authorized Signature  
Surna me, Name:  
Stamp  
Company's Business Name  
Address of the Business:  
Tax ID Number:  
Authorized Person TR ID NUMBER:  
 
Annexes:  
………  
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………  
Annex – 2/B 
 
Subject: Permit Renewal Application                                                                                ……./……/ 20…  
TO DIRECTORATE OF …….  
We are a company with a wooden packaging material marking license with TR -......-HT marking number. 
We request the renewal of our permit due to 
………………………… ……………………………………………………………………... The application 
documents required within the scope of the regulation are attached. Please be advised.  
Authorized Signature  
Surname, Name:  
Stamp  
Company's Business Name  
Old Address of the Business:  
New Address of the Business:  
Tax ID Number:  
Authorized Person TR ID NUMBER:  
 
Annexes:  
………  
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………  
Annex – 2/C 
 
Subject: Application for Cancellation of Permit Certificate                                           ……./……/ 20…  
TO DIRECTORATE OF …….  
We request the cancellation of our wood packaging material marking permit with the TR -......-HT marking 
number. Please be advised.  
Authorized Signature  
Surname, Name:  
Stamp  
 
Company's Business Name  
Address of the Business:  
Tax ID Number:  
Authorized Person  TR ID NUMBER:  
 
 Annexes43 
  
Annex -3 
HEAT TREATMENT FURNACE TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS  
Interior of the Heat treatment furnace:  
 
Width (Furnace Inner Width)       : ...........m.  
 
Length (Furnace Inner Length)   : ...........m.  
 
Height (Furnace Inner Height)  : ...........m.  
 
Inner Volume: Width x length x height …… m³ 
 
Volume of Furnace that can be heat treated: Furnace interior volume – A or B = ………………...m³  
(For HT = A; the volume of the total area occupied by the fan, suspended ceiling, serpentine, etc. in the furnace)  
(For DH = B; the volume of the total area occupied by the microwave heating and radio frequency system etc. in the furnace)  
 
Heat treatment furnace: (HT) (DH)  
 
Heat treatment furnace heating method:  
 
Energy source of heat treatment furnace heating system:  
 
Power of heat treatment furnace heating system:  
 
Current heating capacity of the heat treatment furnace heating system:  
 
The location and height of the furnace ceiling above the stack in the heat treatment furnace:  
 
The type, location, number and total capacity of the devices (fan, ventilator, etc.) that provide air flow in 
the heat treatment furnace:  
 
Locat ion and number of heaters in the heat treatment furnace:  
 
Location of air outlets on the heat treatment furnace:  
 
Heat treatment furnace walls insulation type:  
 
Type and number of air outlets for the discharge of the heat treatment furnace:  
 
Heat treatment  furnace control system type:  
 
Heat treatment furnace wood thermometer type and number:  
 
Heat treatment furnace ambient thermometer type and number:  
 
Manufacturer and brand of heat treatment furnace heating system:  
 
Camera system resolution:  
 
Computer aid ed automation system manufacturer:  
 
Name and/or title and signature of the business that installed the heat treatment furnace:  
 
 
Name and/or title and signature of the business that having installed the heat treatment furnace:  44 
 Annex – 4 
 
HEAT TREATMENT OPERATOR EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT  
(Notarized)  
 
 
 
An "INDETERMINED DURATION / PARTIAL TIME EMPLOYMENT 
AGREEMENT" has been concluded between the employer and the employee whose names (title) 
and addresses are written below. The parties will hereinafter be referr ed to as "employer" and 
"employee".  
1.PARTIES  
EMPLOYER  
Name and surname (title)  
Address:  
Phone:  
EMPLOYER REPRESENTATIVE                 
Name and surname (title)  
Phone:  
WORKER                                                    
Name, Surname                  :  .........................................................................................................   
Turkish ID No.  
Father’s Name  : 
Place and year of Birth:  
Residence Address:  
Phone:  
 
2- WORKER'S PLACE OF WORK:   
                                                                            
3- WORK TO BE DONE:   Heat Treatment Operator within the scope of “Regulation on Heat 
Treatment and Marking of Wood Packaging Materials”  
 
4- WORKING DATE:  
 
5- SIGNING DATE OF THE AGREEMENT:  
 
EMPLOYER OR REPRESENTA TIVE  HEAT TREATMENT OPERATOR  
            
  
 
 
 
 45 
 Annex 5  
SKETCH SHOWING THE PLACE WHERE THE HEAT TREATMENT 
FURNACE/HEATING SYSTEM/CONTROL ROOM OF THE BUSİNESS  WITH 
PERMISSION IS LOCATED IN THE BUSINESS  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
   
 
 
 
  
SAMPLE SKETCH  
 EXPLANATION:  
--The location of the heat 
treatment furnace, control room 
and heating system must be 
shown on the sketch.  
--In addition to these three 
structures that must be displayed, 
the location of other structures 
within the business can also be 
include d in order to make the 
location of these three places 
more understandable.  
46 
  
Annex 6  
13 LAYOUT DIAGRAM OF WOOD THERMOMETER  
 
 
 
Wood Thermometer Number  Wood Thermometer Location  
1 Furnace Entrance Front Upper Side  
2 Furnace Entrance Front Upper Side  
3 Furnace Entrance Front Lower Side  
4 Furnace Entrance Front Lower Side  
5 Furnace Entrance Middle Upper Side  
6 Furnace Entrance Middle Upper Side  
7 Furnace Entrance Middle Lower Side  
8 Furnace Entrance Middle Lower Side  
9 Furnace Entrance Back Upper Side  
10 Furnace Entrance Back Upper Side  
11 Furnace Entrance Back Lower Side  
12 Furnace Entrance Back Lower Side  
13 Center of the Furnace  
 
The latest wood thermometer numbers in the heat treatment furnace:  
1- .........  
2- .........  
3- .........  
4- .........  
 
             ISPM 15 Control Officials                                                            Employed in the Business  
                                                                                                                      Heat Treatment Operator  
 
Name, Surname                                  Name, Surname                                  Name, Surname  
Title                                                      Title                                                    Title  
Signature                                             Signature                                            Signature  
 
47 
 Annex -7 
INSPECTION REP ORT BASED ON WOOD PACKAGING MATERIAL  
MARKING PERMIT CERTIFICATE  
FOR REPORT PROVINCIAL DIRECTORATE/DIRECTORATE  
ISSUE DATE OF THE REPORT  
NAME OR TITLE OF THE BUSINESS OWNER  
1 Address Details  Address:  
2 Information of Heat 
Treatment Operator  1.Operator  
Name and Surname  
Turkish ID Nr.  
Certificate Date and Number:  
Institution from which the Certificate was obtained:  
Date of Contract of Employment  
2.Operator  
Name and Surname  
Turkish ID Nr.  
Certificate Date and Number:  
Institution from which the Certificate was obtained:  
Date of Contract of Employment  
3 Heat treatment furnace 
information  
(FurnaceNo:……)  Number of furnace:……..ocs.  
Internal Dimensions Determined for the Furnace:  
Width:……..Lenght:…… Height:………  
Dimensions in Annex -3 Document:  
Width:… …..Lenght:…… Height:………  
Inner Volume: Width x length x height ……m³  
Volume of Furnace that can be heat treated: Furnac Volume x 0.65 = …….m³  
4 Automatic nailing and 
marking line system:  Available   :  [ ]                                                 Number of automatic nailing and ISPM 15 marking 
lines:……………  
Not available  : [ ]                                          
Explanation:  
5 Temperature Meters 
and Data Recording 
Equipment Sensor 
Calibration Information  Temperature Meter Calibration Certificate Date:  
Highest Deviation Degree:  
Since it is the Highest Deviation Degree,  
Instead of 56 ° C, ……… ° C was taken.  Data Recording Equipment Calibration Certificate 
Date:  
Highest Deviation Degre e: 
Highest Deviation Degree:  
6 Wood Material 
Information Put in Heat 
Treatment Furnace  Type of Wood Material:  
Dimensions of Mounted Wood Material (meters): Width:……..Lenght:…… Height:………  
Assembled Wood Material Volume: Width x Length x Height = ……m³  
Quantity of Assembled Wood Material: Furnace Volume that Can Be Heat Treated/Volume of Assembled Wood 
Material=..…pcs  
Disassembled Wood Material Volume: Width x Length x Height = ……m³  
Quantity of Disassembled Wood Material: Furnace Volume that Can Be Heat Tr eated/Volume of Disassembled Wood 
Material=..…pcs  
7 Determination of the 
Latest Heating Sensors  1- T……………………….  
2- T……………………….  
3- T……………………….  
4- T……………………….  
8 Annex 3 Information  Heating System Capacity: …… .kk / h  
Fan:……………  Pcs  
Ventilator Piece  
Other Piece  
9 Name Surname or Title 
of the Firm Installing 
the Furnace  …………………………………………………………….…………………………………  
10 RESULT  As a result of the Inspection Main Test on wooden packaging material the main inspection of the business 
having title ...................... to the wooden packaging material marking permit IS /IS NOT in accordance with 
the above -mentioned determinations.  
ISPM 15 Control Officials  
Name, Surname:                                                                              Name, Surname:  
Title:                                                                                                Title:  
Signature                                                                                          Signature  48 
 Annex 8  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
REPUBLIC OF TÜRKİYE  
(REPUBLIC OF  TÜRKİYE ) 
THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY  
(MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY)  
WOOD PACKAGING MATERIAL MARKING PERMIT CERTIFICATE  
(WOOD PACKAGING MATERIAL MARKING PERMIT CERTIFICATE)  
 
 
 
 
(Certificate Date)                        : ...../...../.....  
(Certificate No)                   : .................  
(Certificate Renewal Date) :...../...../.....  
(Number of Furnaces)                   :…………..  
 
(Business  Details) ; 
 
Name and/or Title  
(Name and/or Title)  
Address  
(Address)  
Tax identifi cation number  
(Tax ID No)  
Marking Type  
(Marking Type)     
Marking Number  
(Marking No)  
 
  (Pursuant to the regulations of “Regulation on Heat Treatment and Marking of Wooden Packaging Materials”, due it has 
satisfied the ISPM 15 standard, this Wooden Packaging Material Marking Permit Certificate has been issued on behalf of the af orementioned 
business .) 
 
 
 
 
                                                                                                         Director/ Provincial Director  
                                                                                                                                                  - 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 49 
 Annex 9  
 
 
 
  
 
 
REPUBLIC OF TÜRKİYE  
                                                    (REPUBLIC OF TÜRKİYE ) 
THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY  
(MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY)  
                                  .........................................…………………. -  
……………………………………………  DIRECTORATE  
- 
HEAT TREATMENT OPERATOR CERTIFICATE  
 
 
 
Document Date       : ........./........./.........  
Document Number: ........./.........  
Renewal Date       :........./........./.........  
 
 
Heat Treatment Operator  
 
Name, Surname                  : ............................................................................................ .............  
Name Surname  
- 
Turkish ID Number1 
School  graduate   : .........................................................................................................  
- 
Notification Address     : .................................................................................................. ....... 
- 
                                      .........................................................................................................  
 
 
 
(The person whose ID is written above has successfully completed this training by participating in 'Heat Tre atment Operator Training’ 
organized by Directorate of …….....  on the date of ……..….... this document has been given to him.)  - 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                                                                                        DIRECTOR / 
PROVINCIAL DIRECTOR  
                                                                                                                                                                       - 50 
 ANNEX 10:  
 
INSPECTION REPORT FOR WOOD PACKAGING MATERIAL MARKING PERMITTED COMPANIES  
 
In the business whose ISPM 15 marking permit and wooden packaging material marking permit were issued by the 
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, in accordance with the regulation concerning the subjection of wooden package 
materials to heat treatment pro cess and their marking, control and the following determinations have been made by 
the ISPM 15 control officers and this “Inspection Report” has been issued in two copies. ...../...../20.....  
 
Business with Permission Certificate  
Name and/or Title  
........ ............................................................................................................................. ................................................  
Address  
.......................................................................... ...........................................................................................................  
ISPM 15 Marking Number  
1) Determinations for the company in cases not to be present at the address specified in the permit document, to change 
the title, its address changes due to the numbering work carried out by the authorized institution or organization, and 
the work is stopped:  
........................................................................................................................ .............................................................  
............................................................................................................................. ........................................................  
2) Determina tions as to whether the ISPM 15 control officials allowing inspection, providing all kinds of assistance 
and convenience to the ISPM 15 control officers, and providing the information and documents to the control officers 
completely and correctly.  
........ ............................................................................................................................. ................................................  
.................................................................................. ...................................................................................................  
3) Determinations for changes in the heat treatment furnace or computer -controlled automation system in the business, 
the location of the heat treatment fur nace, the number of heat treatment furnaces or increase in the number of 
computer -controlled automation systems:  
............................................................................................................................. .................. ......................................  
............................................................................................................................. ........................................................  
4) Determinations whether the busin ess has lost any of the conditions required to meet in the Article 6 of this 
Regulation  
............................................................................................................................. ........................................... .............  
............................................................................................................................. ........................................................  
5) Determinations whether or not the business has taken any action contrary to any of the principles stated in Annex -
1 and Articles 7 and 8 of this Regulation:  
............................................................................................................................. ............................... .........................  
............................................................................................................................. ........................................................  
6- Whether or not a heat treatment test is carried out in the business  and if so, the 
result:........................................................................  
............................................................................................................................. ........................................................  
.......................................................................... ...........................................................................................................  
7- Whether samples are taken from wooden packaging materials marked ISPM 15 in the business  
........................................................ .............................................................................................................................  
............................................................................................................................. ........................................................  
Remarks and Other Issues  
............................................................................................................................. ...................................................... .. 
............................................................................................................................. ........................................................  
....................................................................... ..............................................................................................................  
............................................................................................................................. .................... ....................................  
............................................................................................................................. ........................................................  
..................................... ............................................................................................................................. ...................  
............................................................................................................... ......................................................................  
 
ISPM 15 Control Officials                                   Business Officials or  
                                                                                                                          Heat treatment operator in the Business  
 
Name, Surname                                           Name, Surname                                                 Name, Surname  
Title:                                                            Title:                                                                  Title:  
Signature                                                     Signature                                                            Signature  
 51 
 ANNEX 11:  
 
INSPECTION DATA FOR WOOD PACKAGING MATERIAL MARKING PERMITTED COMPANIES  
Business  Loss of Any Conditions 
Required to be Met by the 
Business  Non-Conformity  
Status of  
The Operations  
Performed  Administrative  
Sanction  
Applied to  
Business  Name/Surname 
of ISPM 15 
Control 
Officers 
Performing the 
Audit  
Name and/or  
Title  
and Address  Marking  
Number  Inspection  
Date  Not Lost  Lost Complia
nt Complia
nt 
Not 
Complia
nt  
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
 
                                                  ISPM 15 Control Officials   
 
Name, SurnameName, Surname  
Title      : ........................................  Title       : ........................................  
Signature  Signature  
 52 
 ANNEX 12:  
 
 
 
 
 
                                     Control Officials                                                                            User/Supplier Business Officer  
Name and Surname: .........................................Nameand Surname: .......................................    Name, Surname  
Title       : ........................................ .................. Title        : .......................................                   Title:  
Signature       : ........................................ ........... Signature         : .......................................          Signature  
53 
 ANNEX 13:  
 
WOODEN PACKAGING MATERIAL USED IN EXPORT  
SUPPLIER REGISTRATION DOCUMENT APPLICATION AND STATEMENT  
 
 
TO DIRECTORATE / PROVINCIAL DIRECTORATE  
 
 
In my business , the information of which is declared below, wooden packaging materials marked 
with ISPM 15 and traceability mark after being subjected to heat treatment by businesses  licensed by the 
Ministry and wooden packaging material that comes with the product to o ur country through import, has a 
mark number belonging to foreign countries on it, enters into free circulation, is documented with official 
documents, and complies with the provisions of this regulation and ISPM 15 standard, are sold to users 
(exporters) and other suppliers, and I would like to request the registration of my business.  
 
………………………………………..................  
                                      Business owner:  
     Name, Surname, Signature, Stamp and Date  
 
Company's Business Name    
Name -Surname of the Operator/Business Authority    
Tax ID Number:   
TR ID Number of the Operator/Operating Official number   
 
 
The Address of the Business where Wooden Packaging Materials are Sold  
 
  
Phone Number     
Business and working license  Organization issuing the certificate   
Date    
Number    
 
 
ANNEXES:  
1-Turkey Trade Registry Gazette or Turkey Tradesmen and Craftsmen Registry Gazette (The registry 
gazette of the head office or branch, which is the same as the address where the wood packaging materials 
are sold)  
2- Business and working license  
3- Certificate of activity (Document to be obtained from the relevant chamber to which it is registered, 
indicating that it is active in this field)  
 
 
 
 54 
  
ANNEX 14:  
 
AUDIT REPORT FOR BUSİNESS  APPLYING FOR SUPPLIER REGISTRATION 
CERTIFICATE FOR WOOD PACKAGING MATERIAL USED IN EXPORT  
 
 
 According to the provisions of "Regulation on Heat Treatment and Marking of Wooden Packaging Materials”, 
following the inspection by ISPM 15 control officers at t he address of the business  applying for the supplier 
registration certificate of wooden packaging materials used in export and the determinations below, this "Audit 
Report" has been drawn up in two copies. ...../...../20.....   
 
 
Business  
Name and/or Title  
............................................................................................................................. ........................................................  
 
Address  
................................................................. ....................................................................................................................  
 
Tax Number  
 
Turkish ID Nr.  
 
 
 
1-Detections regarding the wooden packaging material taken from the businesses with 
permission................................................................................................................... ......................................................
............................................................................. ..............................................................................................................
............................................................................................................................. ..................... .........................................  
............................................................................................................................. ........................................................  
................................ ............................................................................................................................. ........................  
.......................................................................................................... ...........................................................................  
............................................................................................................................. ....................................................... . 
2- Detections regarding the wooden packaging material, which is in free circulation and in operation with the imported 
product;..................................................................................................................... .......... ..............................................
............................................................................................................................. ........................................  
............................................ ............................................................................................................................. ............  
...................................................................................................................... ...............................................................  
............................................................................................................................. ........................................................  
............................................................................................................................. ........................................................  
.......................................................................... ...........................................................................................................  
 
Remarks and Other Issues:  
......................................................................................................................... ............................................................  
............................................................................................................................. ........................................................  
............. ............................................................................................................................. ...........................................  
....................................................................................... ..............................................................................................  
............................................................................................................................. .................................... ....................  
............................................................................................................................. ........................................................  
..................................................... ............................................................................................................................. ... 
 
As a result of the audit carried out in the business  that applied for the supplier registration certificate of wooden 
packagin g materials used in export issuing a supplier registration certificate to the business  having title ....  is 
SUITABLE / NOT SUITABLE in line with the above -mentioned determinations  
 
ISPM 15 Control Officials  
 
Name, Surname                                                                                     Name, Surname  
Title:                                                                                                      Title:  
Signature                                                                                                Signature  55 
 ANNEX 15:  
 
Republic of Turkey  
THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY  
..........................................…………………. DIRECTORATE  
 
WOODEN PACKAGING MATERIAL USED IN EXPORT  
SUPPLIER REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE  
 
 
 
 
*Registration Number:  Provincial directorate/directorate code - province traffic code - five-digit registration number  
(1-Denizli, 2 -Kocaeli, 3 -Ağrı, 4 -Ankara, 5 -Antalya, 6 -Artvin, 7 -Bursa, 8 -Hatay, 9-İstanbul, 10 -İzmir, 11 -Mersin, 12 -Samsun,  
13-Şırnak, 14 -Trabzon)  
 
 
 
  
Document Date:  
Document Renewal Date:  
 
 
 
 
Business  
 
Name and/or Title  
 
Address  
 
Tax identification number  
 
Registration Number:  
 
 
 
 According to the provisions of "Regulation on Heat Treatment and Marking of Wooden 
Packaging Materials”, for wooden packaging materials marked with ISPM 15 and traceability mark 
after being subjected to heat treatment by licensed businesses  and wooden packaging material that 
comes with the product to our country through import and complies with the provisions of this 
regulation and ISPM 15 standard, the Wooden Packaging Material Used in Export Supplier Registration 
Certificate has been issue d on behalf of the above -mentioned business , which has made a request and 
declaration to sell them to users and other suppliers.  
 
 
 
 
 
                                                                                                      Director/ Provincial  Director  56 
 Annex -16: 
CANCELLATION OF HT/DH HEAT TREATMENT FURNACE INSTALLATİON PERMIT  
 
TO THE GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF FOOD AND CONTROL  
 
My business , whose information is stated below fo  heat treatment application on wooden packaging 
materials used with the product in export and traceability mark with ISPM 15 marking, in case the 
businesses  that will apply to the Ministry for a permit for the first time and the businesses  with a permit 
make changes in the existing heat treatment furnace, computer -controlled automation system, radio 
frequency, microwave and other heating systems,  these businesses  have the necessary infrastructure and 
sales/production opportunity to install the systems in q uestion, and I request the necessary procedures to be 
done in order to be granted the HT/DH heat treatment furnace installation permit certificate belonging to 
my business . 
………………………………………..................  
                                      Business ow ner: 
     Name, Surname, Signature, Stamp and Date  
 
Company's Business Name    
Name -Surname of the Operator/Business Authority    
Tax ID Number:   
TR ID Number of the Operator/Operating Official number   
HT/DH Heat treatment furnace:  
Computer aided automation system and  
Radio Frequency, Microwave and  
Other Heating System Sales/Manufacturing Address   
Heat treatment furnace:  HT DH 
Heat Treatment Furnace Name and Features   
Computer aided automation system Name and Features   
Heating System Name and Features   
Phone Number     
Business and working license  Organization issuing the certificate   
Date    
Number    
ANNEXES:  
1-Turkey Trade Registry Gazette or Turkey Tradesmen and Craftsmen Registry Gazette (registration gazette of the 
head office or branch, which is the same as the address of the business  where the heat treatment furnace, computer -
controlled automation system and heating system are produced)  
2- Business and working license  
3- Documents showing the name of the heat treatment furnace and its features  
4- Trademark registration certificate of computer -controlled automation system  
5- Documents showing that it has a computer aided automation system name and features  
6- Heating system name, features and documents showing its features  
7- One-minute sample numerical and graphic heat treatment output of the software of the computer -aided 
automation system  
8- Notary agree ment regarding the installation and use of the heat treatment furnace, computer -controlled 
automation system and heating systems, whose intellectual property rights are in other businesses , by our business    
9- A notary public undertaking that the heat tre atment furnace, computer -aided automation system and heating system 
to be installed will comply with CE standards.  57 
 Annex -17: 
AUDIT REPORT BASED ON HT/DH HEAT TREATMENT FURNACE INSTALLATION PERMISSION  
Issue Date of the Report :…..../……../20...….  
Business Owner Name Surname or Title : …………………………..……………………………………………….....  
1 Address Details   
Address:  
 
 
2 Heat treatment furnace 
information  
 Heat treatment application method: HT / DH  
 
Explanation:  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3 Computer aided 
automation system 
information  There is/no trademark registration certificate  
Explanation:  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4 Heating System 
Information  Explanation:  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10 RESULT  As a result of the inspection carried out in the business  that applied for the heat treatment 
furnace, computer -controlled automation system and heating system installation permit, 
issuing a supplier registration certificate to the business  having title ... is SUITABLE / NOT 
SUITABLE in line with the above -menti oned determinations  
 
 
ISPM 15 Control Officials  
 
Chairman of the Commission Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner          
Name, Surname Name, Surname Name, Surname   Name, Surname  
Title: Title        :  ........................Title       : ........................ Title:  
Signature  Signature         : .........................Sihnature      : .........................  Signature  
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 ANNEX 18:  
 
 
Republic of Turkey  
THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY  
GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF FOOD AND CONTROL  
 
HT/DH HEAT TREATMENT FURNACE INSTALLATION PERMISSION 
CERTIFICATE  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
Document Date:  
Document Renewal Date:  
Heat Treatment Application Type  : 
 
 
 
 
Business  
 
Name and/or Title  
 
Address  
 
Tax identification number  
 
The heat treatment application was approved and the installation permission was granted;  
 
Computer aided automation system  : ......................................................................  
 
 
 
 According to the provisions of the "Regulation on Heat Treatment and Marking of Wood 
Packaging Materials", in the name of the business  where heat treatment can be applied  to install for 
HT/DH heat treatment furnace this HT/DH Heat Treatment Furnace Instal lation Permit has been 
issued.”  
 
 
 
 
 
                                                                                                          Deputy Director General  59 
  
Annex -19 
AUDIT REPORT OF THE COMPANIES GETTING PERMISSION TO INSTALL 
HT/DH HEAT TREATMENT FURNACE  
 
In accordance with the provisions of the "Regulation on Heat Treatment and Marking of Wood Packaging Materials", 
after the inspection by ISPM 15 control officers at the address of the business  that received the HT/DH Heat Treatment 
Furnace Installation Permit and the following determinations, this "Audit Report" has been drawn up in two 
copies...../...../20.....   
 
 
Business  
Name and/or Title  
.......................... ............................................................................................................................. ..............................  
 
Address  
............................................................................................................................. ........................................................  
 
Tax Number  
 
Turkish ID Nr.  
 
 
 
1-Detections for the heat treatment 
furnace ;............................................................................................................................ .................................................
.................................................................................. .........................................................................................................
............................................................................................................................. .......................... ................................  
............................................................................................................................. ........................................................  
2-Detections for computer -aided automation system......................................................................  
............................................................................................................................. ........................................... .............  
............................................................................................................................. ........................................................  
 
3-Detections for the heating 
system;....................... ............................................................................................................................. ..........................
......................................................................................................... ...........................................................  
............................................................................................................................. ........................................................  
 
Remarks and O ther Issues:  
............................................................................................................................. ........................................................  
............................................................. ........................................................................................................................  
 
Within the scope of the determinations made as a result of the inspection made in the business  with the title ....., which 
has the HT/ DH heat treatment furnace installation permit, the activities of the business  are SUITABLE / NOT 
SUITABLE  
 
 
ISPM 15 Control Officials  
 
Name, Surname                                Name, Surname  
Title:                                Title:  
 
Name, Surname                                 Name, Surname  
Title:                                  Title:  
 
 
 
 
 
 60 
 Annex 20  
MAINTENANCE AND CONTROL REPORT OF HEAT TREATMENT FURNACE , 
COMPUTERIZED AUTOMATION SYSTEM, RADIO FREQUENCY, MICROWAVE 
AND OTHER HEATING SYSTEMS INSTALLED BY BUSİNESS S GETTING 
PERMISSION TO INSTALL HT/DH HEAT TREATMENT FURNACES  
 
Item 
Nr. Name/Title 
of Business 
with 
Permission 
Certificate  Marking 
Number  
(TR…HT)  
(TR….DH)  Heat treatment 
furnace  Computer aided 
automation 
system  Heating System   
 
EXPLANATION  
Compl
iant Non-
compli
ant Compl
iant Non-
compli
ant Compl
iant Non-
compli
ant 
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
 
      HT/DH Heat Treatment Furnace Installation                                        
         Authority of the Establishmnet with Permission Certificate    
                        
Name, Surname                                   
Title:                                   
Signature                                   
Stamp        : .......................................                                    
 
 
 61 
  
ANNEX 21  
 
MARKING APPARATUS S ALES PERMIT CERTIFICATE  
APPLICATION AND STATEMENT  
 
 
TO DIRECTORATE / PROVINCIAL DIRECTORATE  
 
 
In my business, whose information is stated below, after the wood packaging materials used with 
the product for export by the businesses  for which a permit certificate is issued by the Ministry, are 
subjected to heat treatment in accordance with the provisions of the "Regulation on Heat Treatment and 
Marking of Wooden Packaging Materials”, in accordance with the principles set forth in Ann ex-1, the 
marking apparatus needed to make traceability marks with ISPM 15 marking is manufactured/sales, and I 
request the necessary for the registration of my business.  
 
………………………………………..................  
                                      Business own er: 
     Name, Surname, Signature, Stamp and Date  
 
Company's Business Name    
Name -Surname of the Operator/Business Authority    
Tax ID Number:   
TR ID Number of the Operator/Operating Official number   
 
 
Marking Apparatus Manufacturing/Sales Address  
 
  
Phone Number     
Business and working license  Organization issuing the certificate   
Date    
Number    
 
 
ANNEXES:  
1-Turkey Trade Registry Gazette or Turkey Tradesmen and Craftsmen Registry Gazette (The registry 
gazette of the head office or branch, which is the same as the address where the wood packaging materials 
are sold)  
 
 
 
 
 
 62 
  
 
ANNEX 22  
 
MARKING APPARATUS SALES PERMIT CERTIFICATE  
AUDIT REPORT FOR APPLICANT BUSİNESS  
  
 
After heat treating the wooden packaging materials used with the product in export in accordance with the 
provisions of the "Regulation on Heat Treatment and Marking of Wooden Packaging Materials”, in 
accordance with the principles set forth in Annex -1, at the address of the business  that has applied for a 
Marking Apparatus Sales Permit to make a traceability mark with ISPM 15 marking, after the inspection 
by ISPM 15 control officers and the following determinations, this "Audit Report" has been drawn up in  
two copies...../...../20.....   
 
 
Business  
Name and/or Title  
............................................................................................................................. ........................................................  
 
Address  
............................................................................................................................. ........................................................  
 
Tax Number  
 
Turkish ID Nr.  
 
 
 
1-Detections for the manual (printed by han d and arm power) sign pattern that makes marking by 
burning;..................................................................................................................... ........................................................
....................... ............................................................................................................................. .......................................
............................................................................................ ...........................................................................................  
............................................................................................................................. ....................................... .................  
............................................................................................................................. ........................................................  
2- Detections for the device marking digitally (painting/laser) or manually (stamp, stamp, etc.) within a software 
program...................................................................................................................... .............................  
…………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………  
 
Remarks and Other Issues:  
............................................................................ .........................................................................................................  
............................................................................................................................. ......................... ...............................  
............................................................................................................................. ........................................................  
.......................................... ............................................................................................................................. ..............  
.................................................................................................................... .................................................................  
 
As a result of the inspection carried out in the business  that applied for the marking apparatus sales permit to make a 
traceability mark with ISPM 15 marking it is SUITABLE / NOT SUITABLE to issue a marking apparatus sales permit 
to an business  with the title ...  in line with the above -mentioned determinations.  
 
 
ISPM 15 Control Officials  
 
Name, Surname Name, Surname  
Title: Title:  
Signature Signature  
 
 63 
  
ANNEX 23  
 
Republic of Turkey  
THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY  
..........................................…………………. DIRECTORATE  
 
MARKING APPARATUS SALES PERMIT CERTIFICATE  
 
 
 
 
 
*Registration Number:  Provincial directorate/directorate code - province traffic code - five-digit registration number  
(1-Denizli, 2 -Kocaeli, 3 -Ağrı, 4 -Ankara, 5 -Antalya, 6 -Artvin, 7 -Bursa, 8 -Hatay, 9 -İstanbul, 10 -İzmir, 11 -Mersin, 12 -Samsun,  
13-Şırnak, 14 -Trabzon)  
 
 
 
 
 
  
Document Date:  
Document Renewal Date:  
 
 
 
 
Business  
 
Name and/or Title  
 
Address  
 
Tax identification number  
 
Registration Number:  
 
 
 
 According to the provisions of "Regulation on Heat Treatment and Marking of Wooden 
Packaging Materials”, on behalf of the above -mentioned business , which made a request and 
declaration to manufacture/sell the Marking apparatus nee ded to make traceability marks with ISPM 
15 marking, after it has been subjected to heat treatment by the licensed businesses , this Marking 
Apparatus Sales Permit has been issued.  
 
 
 
 
 
                                                                                                       Director/ Provincial Director  64 
  
ANNEX 24  
 
MAKING THE MARKING APPARATUS USED IN ISPM 15 MARKING BY 
PERMITTED BUSİNESS S  
CERTIFICATE OF CONFORMITY  
 
According to the provisions of "Regulation on Heat Treatment and Marking of Wooden Packaging 
Materials”, it has been deemed appropriate for the business , for which a permit is issued by our Ministry, 
and whose mark number is given below, to have the marking apparatus(s) needed to make a traceability 
mark with ISPM 15 marking, after heat treatment by the businesses  with the permit certificate. Your 
busines s can sell the marking apparatus(s) to the licensed business  by specifying the characteristics and the 
number of the marking apparatus that you manufacture/sell as the business  with the Marking Apparatus 
Sales Permit, as requested by the authorized busines s from the logos, examples of which are listed below, 
as specified in the Annex -1 document.  
 
 
Business  
 
Name and/or Title:  
 
 
Tax identification number  
 
ISPM 15 Marking Number  
 
 
 
No other marking can be made other than the signs whose shape is specified below.  
   
 
                   ILLUSTRATIVE ISPM 15 MARKINGS                                             ILLUSTRATIVE TRACEABILITY 
MARKINGS  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
ISPM 15 controlling officer  
 
Name, Surname  
Title:  
Signature  
 
 
Note: The transaction is made with the original signed original of this document. No copies are accepted, including 
color photocopies.  
65 
  
ANNEX 25  
 
LETTER OF COMMITMENT  
NUMBER OF MARKING APPARATUS AND FEATURES USED BY PERMITTED 
BUSİNESS  TO MAKE ISPM 15 MARKING  
 
 
 
Our business  with HT or TR …… ..DH marking number does not have any other marking apparatus for the 
permit certificate issued by the Ministry on behalf of us other than the marking apparatus whose features 
and total number are specified below. In case of wear or deterioration of the ma rking apparatus specified 
in this undertaking, before having a new one replaced or other than the marking apparatus specified in this 
undertaking, before making an additional new marking apparatus, no marking apparatus will be made 
without our permission b y the provincial directorate or directorate.  
 
 
 
 
 
REMARKS  MARKING APPARATUS OWNED BY OUR PERMITTED BUSİNESS  
Mode of Use  MANUAL  DIGITAL  AUTOMATIC NAILING AND 
MARKING LINE  
Feature:  Burning  Painting  Lasers  Painting  Burning  Painting  Lasers  
Electric/
Tube  Stamp/Seal  Scraping/
Electrical  Spray/Battery/Ele
ctric Electric/
Tube  Stamp/Seal  Scraping/
Electrical  
Number         
Total Number       
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Business  Authority  
 
Name, Surname  
Title:  
Signature  
Stamp        : .......................................