Article 15. Measures for the protection of flora

Protection of flora shall be carried out through:

establishing rules, norms and standards in the field of protection and use of flora, as well as norms for the use of objects of flora;

introducing restrictions and prohibitions on the use of objects of flora;

suspending, terminating and revoking the right of special use of objects of flora;

preventing unauthorized use of objects of flora and other violations of the established procedure for their use;

organizing protection of the environment in which flora grows;

including species of wild-growing plants that are rare and endangered in the Red Book of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

preventing harmful impacts on flora or its destruction in the course of economic or other activities;

establishing and developing protected natural territories;

establishing botanical gardens and dendrological gardens;

cultivating wild-growing plants under artificially created conditions;

conducting quarantine measures to protect flora, timely detect and eradicate quarantine and other dangerous pests, plant diseases and weeds;

taking objects of flora into state record and accounting for the volumes of their use;

maintaining the state cadastre of objects of flora and carrying out flora monitoring;

exercising control in the field of protection and use of flora;

regulating the import into and export from the Republic of Uzbekistan of objects of flora;

organizing and conducting scientific research in the field of protection and use of flora;

conducting state environmental expertise in the field of protection and use of flora;

conducting biotechnical and other measures for the protection and rational use of flora.