Türkiye (Turkey) - Machinery Safety Regulation

​Türkiye (Turkey) Ministry of Industry and Technology announces the Machinery Safety Regulation.

Machinery or related products must meet the essential health and safety requirements when they are placed on the market or put into service, while also ensuring the free movement of these products within the Türkiye-EU customs union.

Regulation fosters harmonization by combining mandatory essential health and safety requirements with voluntary harmonized standards for machinery and related products. 

It applies to products introduced to the market for the first time or when existing machinery undergoes modifications significant enough to be considered new machinery.

Proposed date of adoption:
a) The provisions of Articles 27 to 42 regulating the notification of conformity assessment bodies, Article 47, Article 49 regulating administrative sanctions and the Provisional Article 1 on the date of publication,
b) Article 49 regulating administrative sanctions on October 20, 2026,
c) Other provisions on January 20, 2027​​

Proposed date of entry into force: January 20, 2027