• Environmental Management of Maritime Activities Branch Office

• Risk Management and Emergency Response Branch Office

• Marine Environment Management Branch Office

• Marine and Coastal Water Quality Branch Office

Duties

1. To determine the relevant objectives, principles and policies in line with the purpose of using, protecting, preventing or eliminating the pollution of sea and coastal waters, To draw up action plans for the elimination and control of pollution, to determine the relevant procedures and principles, and to ensure that they are put into practice accordingly,

2. To monitor national and international developments regarding the prevention and protection of the pollution of the sea and coastal waters and its environment, to carry out negotiations, to evaluate, to carry out and make studies for determining and implementing relevant policies and strategies, to fulfill the duties of national focal point before relevant international organizations,

3.To determine and implement the procedures, principles and measures for the elimination and control of pollutants and pollution in order to ensure the conservation of the use of sea waters, to prevent marine pollution with an integrated and ecosystem-oriented approach, and to establish the good environment of the sea,

4. To determine the principles and policies, to identify the principles and procedures for the removal and control of pollution for preventing the marine pollution caused by ships on the seas of Turkey, as well as making efforts to implement, to create a decision support system, to prepare action plans to prepare,

5. To prepare and establish the marine environment national and regional environmental management strategy and action plans within this scope,

6. Considering the ecological structures of sea and coastal waters, to make quality classification in line with the principles of conservation-use, to determine the pressures on these areas, to create a program of measures to achieve the determined environmental quality targets, to develop technologies, to draw risk maps, to ensure that they are put into practice accordingly, to determine the procedures and principles to control the discharges made, to establish a monitoring policy and strategy,

7.To determine the policies, strategies, procedures and principles regarding the management of coastal waters, prevention of pollution within the river basin management plans,

8. To determine the procedures and principles for emergency response and compensation for damages in the pollution of the marine environment with oil and other harmful substances, to be prepared against such problems, to take or contract a third party to take the necessary measures to increase the response and combat capacity, to draw up and contract a third party to draw up emergency response plans, restoration and rehabilitation plans and management plans of the wastes generated as a result of accidents,

9. To determine the procedures and principles regarding the dredging activities to be carried out in coastal and sea waters and the dredging materials to be generated as a result of these dredging activities,

10. To determine  the procedures and principles for environmental management of activities that may pose a pollution risk in the sea and coastal waters, especially aquaculture, oil exploration and removal of sunken ships, to reveal the effects of such activities on the marine environment, to have the risk analyses done accordingly, to identify risky areas, as well as fulfilling the necessary works,

11. To protect water used for swimming and recreation and to prevent its pollution,

12. To determine the standards of wastewater discharges to be made in sea and coastal waters, design principles and criteria for sea discharge and deep sea discharge, to carry out approval procedures,

13. To prepare/establish strategic action plans for marine litter/debris, as well as determining, implementing, enforcing the procedures and principles,

14. To carry out research and projects for the protection and improvement of sea and coastal waters,

15. To fulfill the duties assigned by the General Manager.