A new paragraph (c) was added to Article 2(2) of the Regulation on Special Equipment to be Used in the Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs by the Official Gazette of 21 February 2025 (no. 32820): urban carriage of perishable food is outside the regulation's scope. A vehicle whose round starts and ends in the city is not asked, under this regulation, for an ATP Certificate of Compliance or for the Perishable Food Transport Certificate that replaces it domestically.
Under Article 4(1)(v), urban means a city's boundary together with the adjacent area of the same municipality. Because the yardstick is an administrative border rather than kilometres, the map draws the line; a single stop in a neighbouring municipality may take that trip outside the urban definition, which is why the route has to be planned before the paperwork.
Not being asked for the certificate does not lift the temperature duty. Article 13(7) of the Food Hygiene Regulation requires vehicles and containers carrying food to keep it at suitable temperatures where necessary and to allow those temperatures to be monitored; Article 22 of Law No. 5996 requires the operator to meet the conditions at every stage of its activity, verify that it has, and produce its records on request. With no inspection certificate, the proof sits in the insulation of the box, the cold source inside it and the temperature record kept through the delivery.
Since the equipment is the only evidence a city operator has left, choosing a container for urban cold distribution turns into a food safety decision of its own.
