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E
QUATOR 
P
RINCIPLES 
IV
 
(2020) 
Equator Principles IV (2020) require the E&S assessment and due diligence processes to 
evaluate the specific risks of projects and to apply the IFC Performance Standards under 
Principle 3. Due to the economic and physical displacement of the impacted herders as a 
result of the Project development, IFC Performance Standard 5: Land Acquisition and 
Involuntary Resettlement requirements are applicable to the Project.
PS 5 recognizes that project-related land acquisition and restrictions on land use can have 
adverse impacts on communities and persons that use this land. Involuntary resettlement refers 
both to physical displacement (relocation or loss of shelter) and to economic displacement 
(loss of assets or access to assets that leads to loss of income sources or other means of 
livelihood) as a result of project-related land acquisition and/or restrictions on land use. Where 
involuntary resettlement is unavoidable, it should be minimized and appropriate measures to 
mitigate adverse impacts on displaced persons and host communities should be carefully 
planned and implemented. 
The preparation of the Project specific Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) will also utilise the IFC 
PS Guidance Note 5: Land Acquisition and Involuntary Resettlement and the IFC’s Handbook 
on Preparing a Resettlement Action Plan. 
5.14
Community Health, Safety and Security 
5.14.1 
National Requirements 
 
Resolution of Cabinet of Ministers of Republic of Uzbekistan No.95 “On approval of 
general technical regulations of environmental safety” (2020). 
Requires the implementation of environmental safety measures for the 
protection of flora and fauna. This includes the prevention of death of wildlife 
species due to magnetic fields of power transmission lines and sanitary 
protection zones. 
Requires transformer substations in power transmission lines, their grids to have 
equipment (barriers, fences etc.,) to prevent animals from entering the territory 
of the substation. 
 
Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan No.1050 “On 
approval of Rules for Protection of Power Grid Facilities, 2018”. 
This determines the procedure for establishing protected zones for power grid 
facilities, as well as special conditions for using land located within the 
protected zones and ensure the functioning and operation of the said facilities. 
Construction of power grid facilities with 110, 220 or 500kV in protected areas of 
state nature reserves, protected areas of nature parks and state biosphere 
reserves etc shall be allowed with the permission of the Cabinet of Ministers of 
the Republic of Uzbekistan. 

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Protected zones of power grid facilities shall be established on both sides of the 
power transmission line from the outermost wires and along the perimeter of 
substations at the following distances for voltages; 
110kV: 20 meters; 
220kV: 25 meters; and
500kV: 30 meters. 
 
San Rules & Norms No. 0236-
07 “Sanitary norms and rules to ensure safety for 
people living near high voltage power transmission lines, 2007”. 
This regulation sets the requirements for ensuring public safety when overhead 
power lines pass over populated, unpopulated or inaccessible territories.
It requires sanitary norms and rules to be followed in the design, construction 
and operation of overhead power lines. 
The distances corresponding to the projection onto the ground of the outer 
phase wires in a direction perpendicular to the overhead line as follows: 
Up to 110kV/m: 10 meters; 
Up to 220kV/m: 15 meters;
Up to 330kV/m: 20 meters; 
Up to 500kV/m: 30 meters; and
Up to 570kV/m: 40 meters. 
 
Article 18 of the Air Code for the Republic of Uzbekistan 
This provides the details on the procedures to obtain permission to carry out 
activities that may pose a threat to flight safety. Chapter III sets out the 
necessary documents to obtain from the developer for constructing facilities 
located near civil aviation aerodromes. 
 
Aviation Regulation AP RUz -150 No.73 of 31.07.2006 
According to Chapter IV, clause d, AP RUz-150, stationary objects with a height 
of 50m or more, regardless of their location, must be marked. 
Chapter V states that “ White lights operating in flashing mode can be used to 
illuminate freestanding obstacles located outside the airfield zones that do not 
have extraneous lights around them. The flash strength of the obstruction light 
must be at least 10 candelas (cd) and the flash rate must be at least 60 per 
minute.” 
Other requirements for equipping objects with light-shielding lights will be 
provided by CAA specialists study the coordinates of the objects (in the WGS-
84 system) and their technical characteristics. 
5.14.2 
Lenders Requirements 
EBRD 
Performance Requirement 4 establishes the importance of avoiding or mitigating adverse 
health and safety impacts and issues associated with project activities on workers, project 
affected communities and consumers. The objectives of EBRD PR4 are: 

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To protect and promote the safety & health of workers by ensuring safe and 
healthy working conditions and implementing a health and safety management 
system, appropriate to the relevant issues and risks associated with the Project. 
 
To anticipate, assess and prevent or minimise adverse impacts on the health and 
safety of project affected communities and consumers during the project lifecycle 
from both routine and non-routine circumstances. 
ADB 
Under ADB Safeguard Requirement 1: Environment, the assessment of community health and 
safety is required in ESIA. 
Specifically, ‘The borrower/client will identify and assess the risks to, and potential impacts on, 
the safety of affected communities during the design, construction, operation, and 
decommissioning of the project, and will establish preventive measures and plans to address 
them in a manner commensurate with the identified risks and impacts.’ 
This includes reasonably foreseeable incidents, accidents and natural impacts (due to the 
Project) and requires affected communities to be informed. Preparation are also required to 
be made to plan for such events.