EU

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EU Turkey Chamber Forum Partnership
ProjectsMid Term Conference1-2 July 2009,
Trabzon

• How Green is My Firm Project

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Project at a glance

• Title How Green is my Firm?
• Partners
• Chamber of Commerce of Valencia (COCINV) - Spain
• Mersin Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) -
  Turkey
• Duration 12 months
• Budget 139.765

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Objectives

• The overall objectives are creating awareness
  among the Turkish industrial sectors about the EU
  Environmental Acquis contributing to the EU
  negotiation process on the chapter on
  environment disseminating environment-related
  know-how of Istanbul Chamber of Industry (ICI) to
  other Turkish regional chambers.
• The specific objective is enhancing the
  environment-related service capacity and adding
  to the analytical tools of Istanbul Chamber of
  Industry and Mersin Chamber of Commerce and
  Industry in cooperation with EU Chamber from
  Spain

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Activities

• Establishing the cooperation with partner
  Chambers
• Assessment of the EU and Turkish environmental
  legislation for the chemical sector
• Finalization of gap analysis preparing the
  checklist
• Promotion of the Project by press conference and
  seminar
• Selection of companies from chemical sector to be
  visited
• Visiting selected companies in Istanbul and
  Mersin)

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Activities (continued)

• Preparing evaluation report and making the need
  analysis
• Organizing 2 training seminars on the identified
  need areas
• Preparing the published materials (guideline on
  identify topic a result of need analysis)
• Preparing training visit program
• Organizing the training trip to partner country
• Managing the visibility of the Project
• Reporting

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Results

• Sustainable partnership between ICI and COCINV
• Checklist of "How Green is My Firm"
• Evaluation report and need analysis for chemical
  sector
• Guideline on identify topic a result of need
  analysis
• Increased knowledge of representatives of
  chemical sector on EU environmental acquis
• Increased capacity of MCCI on EU environmental
  acquis
• Increased capacity of Environment Department of
  ICI
• Increased knowledge of COCINV on Turkish
  industry's environmental alignment

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Establishing the cooperation with partner Chamber

• Kick-Off Meeting was organized on 5th of February
  2009
• Work plan and responsibilities of team members
  were organized, partnership statement was
  prepared.

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Assessment of the EU and Turkish Environmental
Legislation

• Assessment of the EU and Turkish Environmental
  Legislation related to the chemical sector were
  carried out by Spanish and Turkish experts
  individually.
• The objective is to compare the EU and Turkish
  Environmental Legislation, find out the
  similarities and differences between them and to
  establish the necessary knowledge structure to be
  able to prepare the checklist which will be one
  of the most important results of the project.

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Finalization of gap analysis preparing the
checklist

• Workshop was hold between 24 and 27 of March 2009
• How Green is My Firm Control List was prepared by
  project team and external experts based on the
  assessment of EU and Turkish Environmental
  Legislation .

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Promotion of the project by press conference

• Press conference was organized on 16 of April
  2009.
• Representatives of Istanbul Chamber of Industry,
  Valencia Chamber of Commerce and Mersin Chamber
  of Commerce and Industry attended to the press
  conference.

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Promotion of the project by seminar

• Promotion seminar was hold on 16 of April 2009.
• 49 participants attended to the promotion
  seminar.
• According to the seminar assessment forms, action
  was 86 successful in general.

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Promotion of the project by seminar (continued)

• Three speakers made presentations on
• The Experience of Industry During the Adaptation
  Process of EUs Environmental Acquis
• Prevention of Pollution IPPC and Its
  Implementation
• Turkish Chemical Industry and Turkish
  Environmental Legislation

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Selection of companies to be visited company
visits

• To implement the control list face to face,
  company visits were arranged.

• 42 companies in Istanbul and 12 companies in
  Mersin were visited in May and June 2009

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Activities to be implemented

• Based on the results of the How Green is My Firm
  Control List implemented during company visits,
  the evaluation report and need analysis will be
  prepared.
• 2 Training Seminars, one in Istanbul and one in
  Mersin, will be organized on the identified need
  areas.
• One guideline on Turkish Chemicals Management
  Legislation will be prepared by local project
  team.
• A Training Trip will be organized to Valencia for
  project team and the representatives of the
  companies visited in order to see European
  environmental practices on site.

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Sustainability of the Project

• All the work done under the How Green is My Firm
  Project will be available on our web site.
  (www.iso.org.tr)
• The objective is to be able to spread the
  knowledge gained during the project as wide as
  possible and be a reference point for future
  similar project.
• The documents that will be on our web site
• Presentations of promotion/training seminars
• How Green is My Firm Control List
• Evaluation Report
• Guideline etc.

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Thanks for your attention

• Erbil Büyükbay
• Project Coordinator
• ebuyukbay_at_iso.org.tr

Ömer Inan Local Expert oinan_at_iso.org.tr