Dear Members,

The Ministry of Trade announced the Responsible® Program, which provides consultancy services to ensure compliance with the Green Deal. 

The Program, which aims to guide exporters in the green and digital transformation process, will be implemented within the scope of the Green Deal Compliance Project Support regulated in Article 14 of the Decree No. 5973 on Export Supports.

Under the Responsible® Program, which is carried out within the scope of the Circular on Green Deal Compliance Project Support, projects involving green transformation practices and sustainability consultancy expenses of industrial companies can be supported for 5 years, at a rate of 50 percent and up to a total of 10.000.000 TL.

Within the scope of the Green Consensus Compliance Project support, the program consists of current situation analysis for the needs analysis of companies and the creation of a sustainability roadmap (Phase 1), implementation consultancy for the projects specified in the sustainability roadmap (Phase 2), and monitoring and verification of project outputs (Phase 3).

Manufacturing and exporting companies that have exported a total of USD 300,000 or more in the last three calendar years can apply to the Responsible® Program through the Support Management System.

For detailed information, you may access the Responsible® Portal here.

What is Responsible®?

Responsible® is a consultancy support program implemented by the Ministry of Trade to comply with the Green Deal. Among the companies within the scope of the support, companies that are determined to be above a certain level according to sustainability parameters can earn the right to use the Responsible® label in addition to the consultancy support. The Responsible® label is a trademark owned by the Ministry of Trade, created to raise awareness on sustainability among consumers and producers. The Responsible® label indicates that the company has a capacity and maturity level above a certain level according to sustainability parameters.