The Cabinet of Ministers' resolution dated 06.12.2024 No. 816 "On measures to establish a notification procedure for World Trade Organization member states regarding sanitary and phytosanitary conditions in the Republic of Uzbekistan".
The Committee for Sanitary and Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health has been assigned additional tasks:
- ensuring regular communication with WTO member states about adopted regulatory documents, provisions, and rules to ensure food safety;
- sending projects related to sanitary and phytosanitary measures to WTO member states for feedback and suggestions;
- submitting project measures to initiating competent state bodies for refinement based on comments or suggestions and objections from WTO member states;
- providing responses to substantiated requests from WTO member states and interested parties.
In accordance with the Presidential Decree dated 03.06.2024 No. UP-85, and based on the requirements of the World Trade Organization's Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement), an Information Center for sanitary and phytosanitary measures has been established within the central apparatus of the Committee for Sanitary and Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health under the Ministry of Health, consisting of 3 staff positions.
The document has been published in the National database of legislation in the state language and came into effect on 07.12.2024.
Lola Abduazimova