2010 ilerleme raporu - Avrupa Birliği Bakanlığı

assessment covers progress achieved during the reporting period and summarises thecountry's overall level of preparations.4.1. Chapter 1: Free movement of goodsNo progress can be reported towards alignment with the general principles applicable to freemovement of goods. The legislation on standardisation in foreign trade marginally reducedthe list of items subject to conformity assessment upon import in 2010. Restrictions applicablesince 2009 on goods from non-EU countries in free circulation in the EU were not abolishedin 2010. Such goods are still subject to conformity assessment procedures based ondocumentation accompanied, if necessary, by physical checks at the customs posts, thusdelaying and sometimes inhibiting access to the Turkish market.Technical barriers to trade have increased in certain areas, such as pharmaceuticals. A newrequirement calling for good manufacturing practice certificates for registration ofpharmaceutical products for human use resulted in a de facto ban on imports from Europe bycausing long delays in the registration process. The registration requirements for imports oftextiles and clothing are still in force. The mutual recognition principle has not beenintroduced into the Turkish legal order, thus limiting free movement of goods in the nonharmonisedarea. Licences are still required for the import of goods considered old, renovatedor faulty, for second-hand motor vehicles and for alcoholic beverages. Furthermore, exportsof copper scrap have also been subjected to a licence which introduces a ban to exportscontrary to the Customs Union provisions.As regards horizontal measures, further progress can be reported on standardisation. Overthe reporting period the Turkish Standards Institute (TSE) continued to adopt Europeanstandards. So far it has adopted a total of 16,194 standards of the European Committee forStandardisation (CEN) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation(CENELEC). Harmonisation with the European Telecommunication Standards Institute’s(ETSI) standards remained at around 350. The overall rate of harmonisation with Europeanstandards rose to 99.7%. The TSE is running 67 operational mirror committees, showing adecline in interest in voluntary standardisation activities since last year, when it had 86operational committees. The revised law reflecting the new structure of the TSE meeting therequirements for full membership of CEN-CENELEC has not yet been adopted.In terms of conformity assessment, further progress was achieved on notified bodies. Thereare now 14 Turkish notified bodies, compared with 12 in 2009, operating in the areas of toys,personal protective equipment, lifts, hot-water boilers, appliances burning gaseous fuels,construction products (cement), simple pressure vessels, pressure equipment, medical devices,recreational craft and machinery.Some progress can be reported on accreditation. TURKAK (the Turkish AccreditationAgency) is also the monitoring authority over good laboratory practice. The number ofTURKAK accreditations increased by 17% compared with last year and reached the numberof 465. Although TURKAK is already a member of the European Accreditation Cooperation(EA) and a signatory of seven EA multilateral agreements, the revised law aiming at furtherharmonising TURKAK's structure with the European accreditation system has not yet beenadopted.Some progress can be reported in the area of legal metrology. The Ministry of Industry andTrade issued new and amending legislation on non-automatic weighing instruments, typeapproval of measures and measuring instruments and their inspection, metrological controlEN 45 EN