About the Turkish Goods Certificate

Turkish Goods Certificate

At the meetings held since October 2009 by the Joint Monitoring Committee, which monitors the Türkiye – European Union (EU) financial cooperation relationship, reference was made to the problems encountered in the implementation of Article 23, concerning the certification of the origin of goods, of the Framework Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Türkiye and the Commission of the European Communities on the Rules for Cooperation Concerning EC Financial Assistance to the Republic of Türkiye in the Framework of the Implementation of Assistance under the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA), and it was stated that the requirements of the relevant regulation were envisaged to be fulfilled.

​In this context, meetings were held under the coordination of the Ministry for EU Affairs, with the participation of representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Undersecretariat of Customs (as they were named at the time), the Central Finance and Contracts Unit and our Union.

It was emphasised to the relevant authorities that, in order to document that all goods and materials purchased under tender contracts related to IPA projects are of Turkish origin or have acquired Turkish origin according to the “non-preferential rules of origin”, a design for a new document needed to be prepared, modelled on the Certificate of Origin issued on the basis of the provisions of the Customs Regulation relating to the “non-preferential rules of origin”, to replace the “Domestic Goods Certificate”, which is currently in use for this purpose but which the Ministry considers does not meet the needs, and that the procedures and principles for the issuance and approval of the document also needed to be determined. The said Ministry and institutions decided that, pursuant to our founding law, the printing of the said document and the procedures and principles for its issuance and approval would be prepared by our Union, taking into account the provisions of the existing legislation. Taking into account the matters envisaged by the Ministry for EU Affairs, the Ministry of Customs and Trade, the Central Finance and Contracts Unit and other institutions, our Union prepared the “Procedures and Principles for the Issuance and Approval of the Turkish Goods Certificate Printed by the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye under the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA)” and the “Turkish Goods Certificate”, which were approved by the Board of Directors of our Union. In addition, the document printing process has been completed, and the printed documents have been prepared by our Union to be sent to our Chambers.

The Turkish Goods Certificate printed by our Union will begin to be used as of Thursday, 1 November 2012. Our Chambers must submit their document requests for the Turkish Goods Certificate to our Union by 1 November 2012 and be ready to start selling the document on 1 November 2012. Our Chambers may also continue to use the Domestic Goods Certificate from 1 November 2012 until 1 February 2013. Depending on the requests of companies or the preferences of the Chambers, either the Domestic Goods Certificate or the Turkish Goods Certificate may be issued. During the transition period between 1 November 2012 and 1 February 2013, with the final decision to be made by the Ministry for EU Affairs regarding problems that may arise from the use of both documents and in the use of the Turkish Goods Certificate, both our Union and the Ministry for EU Affairs aim to find quick solutions to problems without causing our companies to suffer. For this reason, any problems that may arise during the use of the Turkish Goods Certificate must be notified to our Union in writing without delay.

As of 1 November 2012, during the approval of the Domestic Goods Certificate currently in force, the provisions specifying the documents that may be submitted during approval, contained in the first five subparagraphs of paragraph 8 and the second, third and fourth subparagraphs of paragraph 9 of Article 9, concerning Document Approval, of the attached Procedures and Principles for the Issuance and Approval of the Turkish Goods Certificate Printed by the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye under the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA)”, will also be applied. As of 1 February 2013, the Domestic Goods Certificate will not be used for IPA Fund Tenders; only the Turkish Goods Certificate will be used. After this date, even if a Domestic Goods Certificate is submitted, it will not be accepted by the institution opening the tender.

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