EU – Turkey Chamber Forum Partnership ProjectsMid Term Conference

1-2 July 2009, Trabzon

How Green is My Firm Project

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 €

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

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)

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

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

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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.

Promotion of the project by seminar (continued)

• Three speakers made presentations on

– The Experience of Industry During the Adaptation Process of EU’s Environmental Acquis

– Prevention of Pollution: IPPC and Its Implementation

– Turkish Chemical Industry and Turkish Environmental Legislation

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

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.

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.

Thanks for your attention

Erbil BüyükbayProject Coordinator

ebuyukbay@iso.org.tr

Ömer İnanLocal Expert

oinan@iso.org.tr