Environmental Control Law as Amended

Country / jurisdiction: Uzbekistan · Year: 2013 · Status: In force · Level: National · Type: Voluntary

The law regulates relations in the field of environmental control.

The main objectives of this legislation are the prevention, detection and suppression of violation of the requirements of legislation in the field of environmental protection and monitoring the state of the environment, identifying situations that can lead to environmental pollution (Art.4).

The objects of environmental control are earth, its subsoil, water, flora and fauna, atmospheric air; natural and man-made sources of environmental impact (Art. 7).

The State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan for Ecology and Environmental Protection coordinates the activities of other specially authorized state bodies in the field of state environmental control.

The State Committee for Industrial Safety of the Republic of Uzbekistan implement state environmental control over compliance with industrial, radiation and nuclear safety, safety of work when using subsoil (Art. 11).

In order to exercise public environmental control, citizens' self-government bodies and non-state non-profit organizations can form a system of public environmental control inspectors, which have the right to enter facilities as observers (Art. 18)

Official source: https://www.lex.uz/acts/7065