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Workshop on Clean Fuel and Vehicles in South
Eastern Europe and Turkey 25-26 October 2005,
Szentendre Country PresentationClean Fuels
and Vehicles in Turkey Yunus ARIKANREC
Turkey Climate Change Project Manager
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• REC Turkey Mission and Portfolio of Activities
• Basic Findings of Questionnaire for Vehicle Fuels
  and Emissions
• Proposals for Future Work

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REC Turkey The Newest Country Office of REC

• RECs Extension to Turkey 2000-2002
• Feasibility Study
• Workplan
• REC Charter
• Signed in October 2002
• Ratified in January 2004
• Bilateral Agreement
• Signed in January 2004
• Ratified in August 2004
• Grants Agreement with EU (2.3 Million)
• Signed in April 2004
• Opening of REC Turkey Office
• 27 May 2004

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• REC Turkey - Aim
• To strengthen the capacity in legal,
  institutional, technical and investment terms
  related to EU accession process in the field of
  environment
• Project Beneficiaries
• The Ministry of Environment and Forestry
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• Local Administrations
• Environmental NGOs
• Businesses, media and academic institutions
• Programme Areas
• Capacity Development Programme
• Information Programme
• Grants Programme
• Special Programme

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Special Programmes

• Multiple Stakeholder Meetings
• Government Business NGO Dialogue
• Sustainable Development Initiatives
• European Business Awards for the Environment
  focal point
• (in partnership with Environmental Platform for
  Sustainable Development Platform of Turkey)
• Business and Environment
• Raising Awareness of Corporate Social
  Responsibility
• (building partnerships for sustainable
  development / on-line directory to promote
  companies)
• Providing Assistance for EU Environmental Acquis
  Compliance
• (assisting umbrella organizations for different
  sectors to establish EU environmental acquis
  assistance centers)
• Climate Change
• National Focal Point for UNFCCC Article 6
  Education, Training Public Awareness
• Designated by Ministry of Environment and
  Forestry in May 2005
• Related Partnerships and Projects
• REEEP, Clean Fuels and Vehicles, LIFE-Third
  Countries Project 2005 Promoting Climate Change
  in Turkey

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Turkey - general
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Turkey main institutions in air quality, clean
fuels and vehicles
Government Ministry of Environment and
Forestry Ministry of Energy and Natural
Resources Ministry of Trade and
Industry Ministry of Interior Ministry of
Health Municipalities
Business NGOs PETDER Petroleum
Association OSD The Association of
Automobile Manufacturers
Research Middle East Technical University
Petroleum Research Center (PAL)
Other Energy Markets Regulatory Authority
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Turkey technical assistance to air and fuel
quality
EC Developing Capacity in Implementation and
Enforcement through the AC IMPEL Network
component on air quality management,
Environmental Heavy-Cost Investment Planning in
Turkey MATRA Capacity Building for the
Implementation of the IPPC Directive Stregthenin
g of Implementation of 96/62/EC Directive and
97/101/Council Decision EU-Twinning Approximation
of Air Quality Management - 96/62/EC and
2001/80/EC World Bank Energy and Environment
Review, 2002
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Turkey air quality legislation

• Main Framework historical
• the Regulation on Protection of Air Quality
  (RPAQ) (OJ19269, 1986)
• The National Programme on Adoption of Acquis
  (NPAA) Section 22.2 13 regulations on Air
  Quality (OJ 24 March 2001, No24352)
• Law No4856 Establishment of Ministry of
  Environment and Forestry (2003)
• since 2001, 5 daughter directives of EC included
  in NPAA
• Progress
• Regulations on Emissions from Industrial Process
  (OJ25606 -2003) and on Emissions from Domestic
  Heating (OJ25699-2005)
• Regulation on Petrol and Diesel Quality,
  (OJ25489-2004), full transposition of 2003/17/EC
  (amanding 98/70/EC)
• Draft Regulation on Ambient Air Quality
  Assessment and Management (RAQAM), transposition
  of 96/62/EC

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Turkey fuel quality
TUPRAS notes that suitable capacity will be
available before that day
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Turkey fuel quality

• Main issues
• TUPRAS leading refinery group (biggest in CEE,
  7th in Europe)
• liberalization of energy markets as of 1.1.2005,
  decreasing market share of TUPRAS ( 85 in 2004,
  60 in 2005), privatization in 2005
• control of sales and quality
• 15 of liquid fuels in market are not accounted,
  illegal border trade
• METU-PAL (2004) compliance (2750 samples)
• 79 in diesel, 87 unleaded petrol
• Financial instruments
• cumulative tax on diesel price 60, on petrol
  price 75
• excise tax of unleaded petrol gt leaded petrol,
• diesel with 350 ppm S gt diesel
  with 7000 ppm S

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Turkey alternative fuels

• Bioethanol
• Regulated by Tobacco Markets Regulatory
  Agency. Tax exemptions that enable use of minimum
  2 bioethanol in petrol have been defined by
  Ministry of Finance.
• Additives
• (manganese and potassium) is recommended to
  replace lead in all fuels.
• Biodiesel
• Planned to be promoted within the scope of new
  regulations as Draft Energy Efficiency Law. The
  amendment defines biodiesel as an alternative
  fuel and enables distribution in the petrol
  markets. Tax exemptions enabling use of minimum
  2 of biodiesel (derived from domestically grown
  biomass) in diesel will be defined by Ministry of
  Finance.

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Turkey vehicles and emissions

• Vehicle exhaust emissions control
• OJ 25869, 2005.
• Privatization since 2003, 600 testing sites,
• Possibility of integrating with vehicle
  inpections

• Restrictions
• It is restricted to import used vehicles to
  Turkey. For M1 Class new vehicles, Type Approval
  Certificate is required

• Standards
• EUROIV will be applied for new cars after
  1.1.2007, all existing cars after 1.1.2008

Total vehicle production 562,148 Total vehicle
exports 346,830 Total vehicle imports 223,277
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Turkey vehicles and emissions incentives

• Accelarated retirement
• For cars older than 30 years. The incentive was
  implemented by the Ministry of Finance and 2,500
  - 4,000 YTL was paid for the banning of each car.
  As a result a total of 248,000 passenger cars
  which are heavily fuel consuming and emitting
  intensive pollutants were excluded from traffic.
• Tax Reductions
• Possibility of decreasing taxes for cars
  manufactured in compliance with EURO standard.
  Law No1318 on Vehicle Purchase Tax and Law No
  197 on Motor Vehicle Tax enables Cabinet of
  Ministers to have the flexibility of decreasing
  up to 50 of related taxes in case purchased cars
  meet.
• Alternative fuels
• The framework for certain exemptions for excise
  tax of bioethanol is completed and new products
  are in market since 2005. The framework for
  biodiesel is being regulated within the scope of
  draft Energy Efficiency Law and Petrol Markets
  Law.

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Turkey conclusions, proposals by REC Turkey - I

• capacity building in
• fuel quality control
• monitoring of enforcement of new regulations
  (transposition OK, Action Plan?)
• inventory and data collection (esp. vehicle
  park),
• effective use of IT technologies (online
  registry of all fuels consumed)
• Policy integration
• synergy with UNFCCC commitments
• more effective role of Ministry of Environment
  and Forestry in promotion of use of alternative
  (biofuels) (i.e introduction of 2003/30 EC on
  alternative fuels for transport) and 2003/96/EC
  on detaxation of energy

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Turkey conclusions, future prospects by REC
Turkey - II

• Stakeholders participation
• - raising awareness of industry with new
  regulations
• - putting the issue in the agenda of
  environmental NGOs
• - increasing cooperation with research community
• further steps in transposition of Acquis
• 94/63/EC (VOCs from petrol)
• 1999/13/EC (VOCs from solvents)
• 1999/32/EC (Sulfur content in liquid fuels)
• other components of fuel quality (e.g. Benzene)
• New public-private partnerships

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Turkey conclusions, future prospects by REC
Turkey-III

• Integrated policies instead of end-of-pipe
  solutions
• gt 95 of goods and human transportation is by
  roadway
• policies and measures for mass transportation
• energy security dependency of fuel market
  exports
• Role of REC Turkey (Based on the new scope of
  accession process between EU and Turkey after 3rd
  of October 2005)
• access to information
• raising awareness
• capacity building through training
• involvement in demonstration projects through
  partnerships

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• Thank you for your attention.
• Yunus ARIKAN
• REC Turkey Climate Change Project Manager
• Tel[phone] / 23 Fax [phone]
• E-mail yunus.arikan_at_rec.org.tr www.rec.org.tr
• REC Turkey extends sincere appreciations
• - to Ms. Fulya SOMUNKIRANOGLU from Ministry of
  Environment and Forestry and Ms. Hülya ERCAN from
  OSD Association of Car Manufacturers for their
  close and active collaboration in compiling the
  data for the workshop and questionnaire.
• to Dr. Erol METIN from PETDER Petroleum
  Association and Prof. Dr. Ender OKANDAN from
  METU-PAL (Petroleum Research Center) for their
  kind interest in this study and initative.