Uzbekistan Country Commercial Guide
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Overview

The Uzbek Agency for Technical Regulation (ATR) was established in 2021. Presidential Decree #41 issued in 2024, transferred subordination of ATR from the Ministry of Investments, Industry and Trade to the Cabinet of Ministers and defined main areas of its activity. The new edition of the Law “On technical regulation” was adopted in 2023. Standards for imported goods are subject to state registration through branches of ATR. A new edition of the Law “On standardization” was adopted in 2022. The national system includes 97 groups of standards and 42 groups of technical guidelines. Most of them are still based on outdated Soviet-era methodology, but the country is in the process of transition to international methods, such as Global G.A.P. and ORGANIC. More than 25,000 standards and 41 technical regulations in force in the country do not comply with international requirements.

Standards and Technical Regulations

The Uzbek Agency for Technical Regulation is responsible for certification and standardization policy. According to Uzbekistan’s legislation, the following standard normative documents are applied in the country:

  • International (interstate, regional) standards
  • Uzbekistan’s national standards
  • Standards of the enterprise
  • National standards of foreign countries.

Foreign entities that do not have a manufacturing presence cannot participate in national standards development.

Testing, Inspection and Certification

By law, Uzbek officials may apply nine certification procedures:

  • Procedures 1 – 5 include testing of standard samples in an accredited laboratory (AL)
  • Procedures 3 – 5 also include inspection of production
  • Procedure 6 is based on the assessment of the quality management system
  • Procedure 7 tests pack samples in the AL
  • Procedure 8 tests each sample product in the AL
  • Procedure 9 reviews the declaration.

Procedures 3 and 7 are the most applicable in Uzbekistan. After testing, an accredited body issues a certificate of conformity for a period of up to three years.

Publication of Technical Regulations

ATR publishes technical regulations and the list of proposed technical regulations on its website. On February 27, 2025, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the Regulation on the procedure for developing, approving, amending and canceling technical regulations. Drafts of technical regulations are developed by developers of technical regulations who are appointed as responsible for their development. During the development of a technical regulation, the developers of the technical regulation organize a two-month discussion of the draft technical regulation on their website. Information on the technical regulations development program for 2024-2028 is published on the ATR’s website. 

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Use ePing to review proposed technical regulations and conformity assessment procedures. 

The ePing SPS&TBT platform (https://epingalert.org/), or “ePing”, provides access to notifications made by Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) under the Agreements on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) and Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT), distributed by the WTO from January 16, 1995, to present. ePing is available to all stakeholders free of charge and is a versatile tool that can be used to:  

  • Follow and review current and past notifications concerning regulatory actions on products, packaging, labeling, food safety and animal and plant health measures in markets of interest,
  • Receive customized e-mail alerts when new notifications are distributed,
  • Find information on trade concerns discussed in the WTO SPS and TBT Committees. 
     

Per obligation under the TBT Agreement, each WTO Member operates an Enquiry Point. National TBT Enquiry Points are authorized to accept comments and official communications from other national TBT Enquiry Points, which are NOT part of the WTO or the WTO Secretariat. All comment submissions from U.S. stakeholders, including businesses, trade associations, U.S domiciled standards development organizations and conformity assessment bodies, consumers, or U.S. government agencies on notifications to the WTO TBT Committee should be sent directly to the USA WTO TBT Enquiry Point. Refer to the comment guidance at https://www.nist.gov/notifyus/commenting for further information. This guidance is provided to assist U.S. stakeholders in the preparation and submission of comments in response to notifications of proposed foreign technical regulations and conformity assessment procedures.

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