Law On Transformation Of Areas Under Disaster Risk

This Law determines the principles and procedures for establishing healthy and safe built living environments.

 

Under the Law, experts (defined under the regulations) are able to determine whether buildings have completed their economic life, risk collapse or have suffered from heavy damage, and can therefore recommend destruction or renovation.

 

The law includes low-interest loans for making building improvements that comply with regulations.

 

The Law On Transformation Of Areas Under Disaster Risk numbered 6306 was published in the Official Gazette No. 28309 of 31 December 2012. Regulations were finalised in 2016 under Cabinet Decision number 2016/9654.