Representatives of Ferghana regional administration, State Committee on nature protection, Ministry of Healthcare, regional state bodies and enterprises, as well as others participated at the session.

It was that that the region carried out some work to ensure implementation of the law, decreasing emissions to environment, and waste placement in line with set norms and standards. Over 10,350 companies were registered in the region, which impact to environment, of which 1,200 are industrial enterprises. These enterprises’ emission reaches 145,000 tonnes of harmful gases a year.

Ferghana regional administration developed a joint action plan on protection of environment and rational use of natural resources for 2011, which is directed at protecting health of population and environment.

Participants also underlined about shortages in this direction in Ferghana region. In particular, 133 of 834 enterprises, which should develop ecologic criteria, regulating maximum emission volume, have no such normative documents or they already expired. Margilan city and Quva city, as well as Tashlaq, Beshariq and Sokh districts are not paying attention to mandatory and voluntary ecologic certification of some products and services.

Participants also underlined that the Regional center for sanitary-epidemiologic supervision has shortages in its work. For example, it used old standards at analyzing sewage and the center has no necessary norms or equipment to analyze some types of products.

At the end of the session, the committee adopted recommendations on eliminating existing shortages.