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out on a voluntary form by businesses with low or insignificant
(local) risk of environmental 
impact and on a mandatory form on an annual basis for businesses with high and medium risk 
of environmental impac
t’.
An environmental audit is not a substitute for environmental control; however, in case of a 
positive conclusion of the audit, an business entity is not subject to an inspection by the State 
Committee on Ecology and Environmental Protection for one year, except for accidents and 
emergencies, as well as in connection with the investigation of criminal cases or by order of 
the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan or the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of 
Uzbekistan. The environmental audit is carried out on the basis of a contract concluded 

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between the environmental auditing organisation and the client of the environmental audit. 
The Law comes into force on March, 2022.” 
3.1.7 
Law on the Rational Use of Energy, 1997 
This law is fundamental to the development and functioning of the whole energy sector, 
including renewable energy. It defines a general legal framework to ensure the conservation 
of national energy resources and the efficient use of the available production capacity, fuel 
and energy. The law provisions are applicable to legal entities and individuals whose activities 
are related to the extraction, production, processing, storage, transportation, distribution and 
consumption of fuel and energy. 
The law is aimed at achieving the following objectives: 
 
Ensuring efficient and environmentally friendly use of energy in its production and 
consumption; 
 
Ensure reliability, uniformity of measurements and metering of quantity and quality 
of energy production and consumption 
 
Governmental control and supervision over efficient energy production and 
consumption, its quality, the technical condition of energy equipment, energy 
supply systems and energy consumption. 
The law has a particular article that defines the framework conditions for the use of renewable 
energy sources and aims to stimulate the development of renewable energy in Uzbekistan. 
The law authorises independent producers of electricity and heat from renewable energy 
sources to supply energy to the energy networks of energy supply organisations, which are 
obliged to accept energy from these producers at prices formed according to the established 
procedure. The prices are formed by an authorised body, currently the Ministry of Finance of 
the Republic of Uzbekistan. 
3.1.8 
Presidential Decree No. 5863 on Environmental Protection Strategy 
(30th October 2019) 
The Strategy contains measures to preserve the environment (atmospheric air, water, land, 
soil, subsoil, biodiversity, protected areas) from anthropogenic impact and other negative 
factors, expand protected areas, and improve the environmentally safe system of waste 
management. 
The Strategy approved 24 target tasks until 2030, which aim to increase the area of forest 
plantations, restoration and reclamation of disturbed lands, rational use of water resources, 
reduction of emissions into the air, protection and reproduction of biological resources, and 
improvement of the waste management system. 
Through the implementation of the Strategy, the followings are expected to be achieved: 

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 
Increasing the area of forest plantations on the Uzbek part of the dried Aral Sea 
bed from 28% (0.9 million ha) to 60% (2 million ha); 
 
Reduction of pollutant emissions by 10% (from 2.492 million to 2.243 million tonnes); 
 
Converting 80% (about 6,500) of public transport to natural gas and electric 
propulsion; 
 
Increasing the area covered by forest from 3.2 million to 4.5 million hectares; 
 
Increasing the area of protected areas from 3.5 percent (1.5 million hectares) to 12 
percent (5.4 million) 
 
Increasing the coverage of solid domestic waste collection and transportation 
services from 48% (16 million people) to 100%; 
 
Increasing solid domestic waste processing from 18% (1.3 million tonnes) to 65% (4.6 
million tonnes). 
Other relevant national laws and regulations to the Dzhankeldy Wind Farm project include: