Implementing Regulations of The Agriculture Law

Agricultural licenses shall be classified as follows: 1. Construction license, authorizing a service provider/agricultural practitioner to engage in the activities of the agricultural or veterinary facility and have the equipment necessary for operation, but not to operate. In the event that this license expires without implementing the activities of the agricultural or veterinary facility, it shall be deemed canceled. The Ministry may extend this license for a one-year period as a final deadline, or as it deems appropriate, pursuant to the regulatory conditions and controls in this regard; 2. Operational license, authorizing a service provider/agricultural practitioner to operate an agricultural or veterinary facility, and to start actual production or operation; 3. Practice license, authorizing a natural person to engage in work at an agricultural or veterinary facility; 4. Activity practice license, authorizing a facility to practice an agricultural activity for a one-year period upon obtaining agricultural registration in which the type of activity, crop, and water duty shall be determined. This license shall be renewed upon updating facility data via electronic services specified by the Ministry, in accordance with controls to be determined as per the type and volume of activity and in line with the Ministry’s objectives and strategies; 5. License to grow restricted crops, authorizing an agricultural practitioner to grow said crops pursuant to controls specifying areas, crops and method of implementation thereof; 20| Implementing Regulations of the Agriculture Law 6. License to export or re-export prohibited fresh or processed agricultural products, pursuant to controls and methods specified by the Ministry; 7. Veterinary laboratory license, authorizing a person to open a private veterinary laboratory in accordance with the controls and requirements set out in the Guide to Licensing Conditions for Private Veterinary Laboratories issued by the Ministry. The Ministry may issue an immediate initial laboratory license, or an initial laboratory license, for completing the necessary procedures for a final license. The laboratory may not start operation prior to obtaining a final license; 8. License for laboratories of agro-processing industries, namely laboratories that convert original agricultural products into another form, such as oil extraction laboratories, laboratories for extracting solutions from agricultural products, laboratories for making molasses and pastes from agricultural products, laboratories for manufacturing spices and beverages, laboratories for leather manufacturing, and the like. These laboratories shall be licensed pursuant to the controls and requirements issued by the Ministry; 9. License for agricultural consultation activities practiced by a professional natural person or legal entity, based on accumulated practical experience and academic degrees in the agricultural sector which qualify their holder to provide the service to third parties in the fields of plant resources; animal resources, including animal production or health and veterinary control; living aquatic resources; supporting agricultural and administrative services; environmental agricultural systems; and financial and economic agricultural fields. Said license shall be issued pursuant to the controls and requirements issued by the Ministry; 10. License for sorting, grading, packing and packaging agricultural products, namely projects related to the agricultural sector’s supporting services which are located inside or outside a farm; and 11. License for rural tourism farms, namely existing farms which are restricted by controls and requirements issued by the Ministry and which receive tourists and picnickers to enjoy a number of activities related to agriculture and rural life.