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Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

Author ORCID Identifier

ÜNAL YILDIZ: 0000-0003-4737-8302

ÖZGÜR TEMİZ: 0000-0002-0808-8153

KAMİL HALİLOĞLU: 0000-0002-4014-491X

NESRİN YILDIZ: 0000-0002-8179-6228

DOI

10.55730/1300-011X.3198

Abstract

In Turkiye, in accordance with EU harmonization laws, Biosafety Act No. 5977 entered into force on 18.09.2010. The basic legislation regarding the application process is composed of the Biosafety Act, Regulations on Genetically Modified Organisms and Their Products, and Regulations on Working Procedures and Principles of Biosafety Board and Committees. Biosafety legislation foresees a special application procedure for GMO food, food products, feed, and other products. The application regulated in the Biosafety Law is a special administrative procedure in nature. The primary objective of this study is to explain the legal regime of this application procedure. While explaining this issue, relevant limitations will be discussed in detail, and solutions will be presented for such limitations. This study was divided into two parts. In the first part, basic concepts related to the application will be examined. This section includes the scope and nature of the application, the prohibitions, and exceptions related to the application, the applicant, and the relevant authorities. In the second part, the application process will be examined. Under this heading, there are notifications to the applicant and reasons for rejection of the application, evaluation of the application, final decision stage, and simplified procedure.

Keywords

Administrative Application Procedure, Risk Assessment, Biosafety Board, GMO, TAGEM

First Page

519

Last Page

530

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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