Government Resolution No. 737 of September 2019 on Improvement of the environmental monitoring system in Uzbekistan.

The Government, in order to improve and increase the efficiency of the environmental monitoring system and prevention of negative impact by forecasting its occurrence, as well as the implementation of systematic monitoring of the use of natural resources, assessment, information support of state control in the field of environmental protection, targeted and rational use of natural resources, decrees that beginning from January 1, 2021, automatic stations for the selection and analysis of samples at sources of atmospheric air pollution of newly commissioned business entities of high risk of impact on the environment, as well as stationary observation points (posts) in the adjacent territory shall be obligatorily established at the expense of business entities. Unified geoinformation database of the environmental monitoring system natural environment - an electronic system for collecting, analyzing and storing information about the state environment and pollution sources, including atmospheric air, surface water and groundwater, and land. State monitoring of the natural environment consists of: (a) monitoring of sources of pollution (emission) of atmospheric air, surface water and soil; (b) monitoring of atmospheric air pollution; (c) monitoring of surface water pollution; (d) monitoring of the qualitative composition of collector-drainage waters; (e) monitoring of groundwater pollution; (f) monitoring of dangerous geological processes; (g) monitoring of soil pollution; (h) monitoring of flora and fauna; (i) sanitary and hygienic monitoring of the natural environment; and (j) background monitoring. Objects of observation during monitoring of pollution sources shall be: (a) emissions of pollutants into the atmospheric air from stationary sources; (b) wastewater discharges into surface waterbodies; (c) surface water in the area of wastewater discharge sources; (d) groundwater in the vicinity of identified or potential sources their pollution; and (e) soil in the area of location of identified or potential pollution sources.