Turkish Standards Institution

The Turkish Standards Institution (Turkish: Türk Standardları Enstitüsü, TSE) is a public standards organization whose mission is to increase the competitiveness of Turkey, facilitating trade on national and international levels and develop society's standard of living by providing standardization and conformity assessment in diverse fields.

TSE Headquarters in Ankara
Turkish Standards Institution
AbbreviationTSE
Formation1954
PurposeNational standards, conformity assessment
HeadquartersAnkara
Region served
Worldwide
Official language
Turkish
President
Dr. Adem Şahin
Staff
2716 employees (as of 2020)
Websitetse.org.tr

History and Structure

TSE was established in 1954 within the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB). With the passage of Turkish Law No. 132 in Turkish Parliament on November 18, 1960, TSE gained a separate legal entity and completed its establishment process. TSE is recognized by the Turkish government as the only national standards body of the country and represents Turkish interests at international standardization platforms.[1] TSE headquarters is based in Ankara while its has 10 regional coordination departments in major metropolitan areas of Turkey. In addition to regional departments, TSE has a large campus in Gebze hosting most of TSE's quality testing laboratories in a close proximity to main industrial and commercial hubs around Istanbul.[2] Furthermore, TSE is based abroad through its representation and coordination offices in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Northern Cyprus and Saudi Arabia.[3]

Activities

TSE publishes and adopts standards in order to enable industrialists to produce goods and services in compliance with rules, laws, codes and standards applicable in global markets. Other than its main role as a standards organization, TSE conducts training programs, and it has operations in various fields of conformity assessment such as inspection and surveillance, product certification, management systems certification, personnel certification, testing and calibration.

As a notified body of several international schemes, TSE enables clients based in Turkey and other countries to gain access into the European and Gulf markets by ensuring that their products meet all CE mark requirements according to European Directives/Regulations and G-mark requirements according to GSO regulations, as well as by providing Halal certificates in compliance with SMIIC standards.[4][5]

Turkish Standards Institution cooperates with other public bodies in Turkey over inspection and surveillance activities concerning consumer safety. Under the authorization of the Ministry of Trade in Turkey, TSE is the sole body that performs import controls of fertilizers as well as a large group of mechanical and electronic items before the release into Turkish market.[6] Likewise, as authorized by the Ministry of Industry and Technology, TSE performs the country-wide inspections of measuring devices such as dispensers, counters, volumetric meters of petroleum products and scales weighing above 2000 kg.[7] Under a similar authorization of the Ministry of Industry and Technology, TSE inspects the projects related to production, modification and assembling of vehicles as it has vehicle inspection centers in 69 provinces of Turkey.[8]

International membership

TSE is an active member of the world standardization community; with its full membership of:

References
  1. "About Us". TURKISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION. 2021-10-28. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
  2. "Birimler Harita Görünümleri". TÜRK STANDARDLARI ENSTİTÜSÜ. 2021-10-28. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
  3. "TSE Foreign Representation Offices". TURKISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION. 2021-10-28. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
  4. "Turkey to build stronger trade diplomacy with Africa in 2020". Daily Sabah. No. 16 January 2020. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  5. "Hizmetlerimiz". 25 November 2021.
  6. "İthalat - İthalat Merkezi Başkanlığı Görev ve Sorumlulukları". 25 November 2021.
  7. "ÖLÇÜ ALETLERİ MUAYENELERİ - Genel Bilgi". 25 November 2021.
  8. "Hakkımızda - ARAÇ KONTROL MERKEZLERİ". 25 November 2021.
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