Planning Department for Marmara and Mediterranean Basins

For the provinces of Adana, Ağrı, Antalya, Ardahan, Balıkesir, Batman, Bilecik, Burdur, Bolu, Bursa, Çanakkale, Düzce, Edirne, Eskişehir, Hatay, Hakkâri, Isparta, Iğdır, İstanbul, Kars, Kahramanmaraş, Kırklareli, Kocaeli, Mardin, Mersin, Osmaniye, Sakarya, Siirt, Şırnak, Tekirdağ, and Yalova:

1. Prepare, coordinate with relevant institutions, and ensure the preparation, submission for approval, and implementation of environmental plans that guide settlement, construction, and land use at all scales and types, forming the basis for physical plans and practices.

2. Define the principles and procedures for preparing environmental plans at basin, regional, or provincial levels, including basin and regional environmental plans, preparing them, commissioning them, and preparing them for approval.

3. Ensure that sectoral plans are prepared in compliance with basin or regional level environmental plans.

4. Take necessary measures to ensure the coherence of all scales of physical plans with spatial strategy plan objectives and decisions. Prepare, commission, and prepare for approval provincial environmental plans not completed within the specified time by relevant authorities as stipulated by the Ministry.

5. Ensure that environmental plans comply with spatial strategy plans and, in case of discrepancies between zoning plans and environmental plans, ensure that relevant authorities rectify discrepancies within the timeframe provided by the Ministry.

6. Perform similar tasks as assigned by the Department Head.