Article​​​​​​​ 25. Powers of the Sanitary-Epidemiological Well-being and Public Health Committee under the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the Field of Regulating Water Relations

The powers of the Sanitary-Epidemiological Well-being and Public Health Committee (hereinafter referred to as the Sanitary-Epidemiological Well-being and Public Health Committee) under the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the field of regulating water relations include:

exercising sanitary-epidemiological control over compliance with sanitary norms, rules, and hygiene standards in the use and protection of surface and underground waters, as well as exercising state control over the implementation of sanitary-hygienic and anti-epidemic measures;

conducting sanitary-hygienic monitoring;

participating in the assessment and selection of sources of drinking and domestic water supply;

coordinating the siting, designing, construction, reconstruction, and commissioning of drinking and domestic water supply facilities, wastewater disposal facilities, enterprises, installations, and other objects that affect the state of groundwater;

ensuring state sanitary-epidemiological regulation of surface and underground waters in order to prevent harmful effects on the human body;

participating in the activities of the Republican Water Council, submitting proposals to the Council on compliance with sanitary norms, rules, and hygiene standards in the use of surface and underground waters, on existing problems, and on ways of their resolution.

The powers of the Sanitary-Epidemiological Well-being and Public Health Committee may also include other matters in accordance with legislation.