Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Starting from 1 October 2020, the practice of issuing a "Sign of Sanitary and Epidemiological Wellbeing" to business entities is being introduced on the basis of studying the compliance of their activities with sanitary rules, norms and hygienic standards and test results.

The badge is issued by the Sanitary and Epidemiological Service for three types of categories "green", "yellow" and "red" for up to 12 months.

It is not allowed to study and check by the bodies of the Sanitary and Epidemiological Service of the activities of business entities that have a "green" category mark (with the exception of registered cases of mass poisoning and group diseases).

The badge is issued on the initiative of business entities (voluntarily) or on the initiative of state bodies in cases stipulated by law (on a mandatory basis).