Article 28. State control over the transportation of transit passengers, baggage, cargo luggage, cargo, postal and courier items

State control over the transportation of transit passengers, baggage, cargo luggage, cargo, postal and courier items is carried out at checkpoints across the State Border of the Republic of Uzbekistan by officials of the relevant authorized state bodies.

In the course of state control, the compliance of transit passengers, baggage, cargo luggage, cargo, postal and courier items and means of transit with the requirements of customs, sanitary, veterinary, phytosanitary, radiological, environmental and other types of control established by the legislation and international treaties of the Republic of Uzbekistan is checked.

Mandatory conditions for the implementation of state control over the transportation of transit passengers, baggage, cargo luggage, cargo, postal and courier items are:

comprehensive, simultaneous implementation of all types of state control by authorized state bodies within their powers;

regulation of state control and actions of officials of authorized state bodies;

performance of state control functions by officials of authorized state bodies within the time limits established by law;

use of measuring instruments that have passed the state metrological control;

accelerated and priority procedure for state control during the transportation of live animals, perishable products, transplants, biomaterials, special medical preparations.

Officials of the relevant authorized state bodies cannot transfer their powers of state control to other persons.