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Uzbekistan: Law No. ZRU-565 on the Use of Atomic Energy for Peaceful Purposes (2019)

Uzbekistan's 2019 Law on the Use of Atomic Energy for Peaceful Purposes requires licences from the Committee for Industrial, Radiation and Nuclear Safety for building and operating nuclear installations, reserves the construction decision to the President and the site choice to the Cabinet of Ministers, and requires a regulator permit to use the site. It was last amended in April 2026. It is a framework statute, not a project permission.

Category
Laws, rules and executive directives
Status
In effect
Instrument
statute · Закон Республики Узбекистан от 09.09.2019 г. № ЗРУ-565 «Об использовании атомной энергии в мирных целях»; in force 10 September 2019; amended by Law No. ZRU-1140 of 21 April 2026
Issued by
Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan; signed by the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Jurisdiction
Uzbekistan
Affects
National reactor licensing, Siting, State programme administration
In effect from
10 Sep 2019 · actual · day
Expiry or completion
None recorded
Operative text
LexUz: Law No. ZRU-565 of 09.09.2019 'On the Use of Atomic Energy for Peaceful Purposes' (current edition, Russian) (LexUz current Russian edition of 21 April 2026 (amended parts marked as unofficial translation of the Uzbek text))
Record reviewed · next review
2026-10-18 · 2027-04-18 (dates our review of this record; not a statement of the measure's present legal effect)

Legal and geographic scope

National framework statute (ten chapters, 59 articles). Article 16, as amended in 2026, names the Committee for Industrial, Radiation and Nuclear Safety under the Cabinet of Ministers as the specially authorised state safety regulation body. Article 20 has that body issue licences to operating organisations; licensed activities include construction and operation of nuclear installations and storage facilities. Article 25 provides that the decision to build a nuclear installation is taken by the President on the Cabinet of Ministers' proposal, that the site is chosen by the Cabinet of Ministers, and that the regulator organises a state review of the site safety case and issues a permit to use the site. Article 27 requires a sanitary protection zone, an observation zone and a safety zone, and bars housing, public buildings and children's institutions from the sanitary protection zone. Article 12, as amended, names the Atomic Energy Agency under the Cabinet of Ministers as the authorised state body.

Not approved or still pending

The Russian text of the 2026 amendments is marked as an unofficial translation; the Uzbek official text was not compared. The 2021 amendment was not opened. No presidential construction decision, Cabinet site decision or site permit for a specific project is established here.

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