Extensive work on environmental protection and mitigation of negative effects of climate change was carried out

• There was no such legal basis

• Presidential Decree No. 5024 of April 21, 2017, “On Improving the System of Public Administration in the Sphere of Ecology and Environmental Protection”, was adopted
• Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated April 21, 2017 No. 2915 “On measures to ensure the organization of the activities of the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Ecology and Environmental Protection” was adopted
• Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated April 21, 2017 No. 2916 “On measures for the radical improvement and development of the waste management system for 2017 — 2021” was adopted
• Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated October 3, 2018 No. 3956 “On additional measures to improve the public administration system in the field of ecology and environmental protection” was adopted
• Presidential Decree No. 4247 of March 20 2019, “On Measures to Improve the System of Public Administration in the Sphere of Protected Natural Areas”, was adopted
• By these documents, the State Committee for Nature Protection of the Republic of Uzbekistan is reorganized into the State Committee for Ecology and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Uzbekistan. It now reports to the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan
• The Committee's system includes the Committee on Ecology and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, the regional departments of ecology and environmental protection, and the department of ecology and environmental protection of Tashkent
• Subsidiaries have been established based on the state unitary enterprises "Toza Hudud" and sites for the provision of services for removing household waste of landscaping departments under district khokimiyats in districts and cities of the Republic
• The National Inspectorate for the Protection and Rational Use of Fauna and Flora of the State Committee for Nature Protection of the Republic of Uzbekistan has been transformed into an inspectorate for the protection and control of the use of biodiversity and protected natural areas under the State Committee for Ecology and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and its territorial inspectorates have been created
• Chatkal biosphere, Zaamin, Surkhon, Nuratinsk and Kyzylkum State reserves, as well as the Nizhne-Amudarya State Biosphere Reserve, have been transferred to the system of the State Committee on Ecology

• The negative consequences have increased dramatically; this has continued to cause many discontents among the population.

• To strengthen environmental control over the activities of cement production organizations, Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 223, "On Strengthening Environmental Control over the Activities of Cement Production Organizations," was adopted on April 14, 2020. It is established that from January 1, 2022, automatic sampling and analysis stations, stationary observation points (posts) will be installed on the sources of air pollution at the expense of organizations. they will also be equipped with remote transmitters to monitor the level of air pollution.

• The level of equipment (of analytical laboratories) of the territorial departments for monitoring environmental pollution in the Committee's system of control and measuring equipment was unsatisfactory; out of 523 control and measuring devices, 65% (340) are obsolete (1979-2000 years of production), 16% (83) are out of date. There were no mobile laboratories, automatic measuring equipment.

• 79 billion soums

• There were no mobile laboratories, automatic measuring equipment.

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• 1 law ("On Protected Natural Areas" of 2004) and 5 government decrees were adopted.

Resolution No. 4247 of March 20, 2019, “On Measures to Improve the System of Public Administration in the Sphere of Protected Natural Areas”, and 11 Government Resolutions were adopted.

• The statutes of protected areas of protected natural areas have been approved
• Activities of protected natural areas are regulated
• The regime established in them, etc., have acquired a legal basis
• Procedures for entry and exit to protected natural areas have been approved
• Based on the above, the procedure and methods for monitoring and research work in protected natural areas, the procedure for the activities of Scientific Councils have been developed and approved
• Besides, the Procedure for Maintaining the State Cadastre of Protected Natural Areas has been approved

• “Tudakul”
• “Kuyimozor”

• The powers of the state body for nature protection were not enough.

• The Concept of environmental protection of the Republic of Uzbekistan until 2030 was approved, and the "Roadmap" for its implementation in 2019-2021 was approved. (Following the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated October 30, 2019, No. UP-5863).

Within the framework of this “Roadmap”, a number of tasks have been defined:

• Mitigation of consequences of Aral tragedy
• Protection of land, water, biological resources and subsoil, atmospheric air
• Improvement of the waste management system
• Greening the economy and improving economic mechanisms of nature management
• Improvement of environmental control and public administration in the field of environmental protection
• Development of scientific support for environmental protection
• Activation of civil society institutions in the field of environmental protection and the establishment of a system of continuing education
• Development of international cooperation in the field of environmental protection

• -

• Memorandum of Cooperation with the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) signed

• -

• 529

• Not existed

• A multi-partner trust fund has been established for the Aral region

• Not existed

• The International Innovation Centre of the Aral Sea region under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan was established

• Not existed

• The UN General Assembly adopted a special resolution declaring the Aral Sea the territory of ecological innovations and technologies