Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Government Resolution approved the Regulation on the procedure for mandatory environmental certification of environmentally hazardous products and waste for import into the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan and export from the territory of the state.

According to the Regulation, the import and export of environmentally hazardous products and wastes to Uzbekistan will be conducted on the basis of an environmental certificate issued by an environmental certification body accredited by the State Committee on Ecology and Environmental Protection.

To obtain a certificate, the applicant applies with an application through the customs information system "Single Window" or directly to the environmental certification body in the system of the State Committee on Environment.

Within 1 working day, the environmental certification body analyzes the submitted documents and, if the submitted documents are complete, makes a decision on certification of environmentally hazardous products and waste.

An environmental certificate is provided for the period:

in accordance with a copy of one foreign trade agreement (contract) and an agreement (agreements) concluded between the supplier and the receiving party, which indicate the exact volume (amount) of imported environmentally hazardous products and waste (excluding vehicles) - for a period not exceeding one calendar year;

for each batch of environmentally hazardous products and waste - for a period not exceeding one year;

for batch production processes - for a period of 3 years.

This procedure comes into force on 1 May 2021.