Decree No. 287 of the Cabinet of Ministers validating Model Regulation for performance of social environmental audit. Country/Territory Uzbekistan Document type Regulation Date 2015 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Environment gen. Keyword Environmental audit Local government Non-governmental entity Monitoring Offences/penalties Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Access-to-information Geographical area Aral Sea, Asia, Asia and the Pacific, Central Asia, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Europe and Central Asia, Landlocked Developing Nations, North Asia Abstract This Decree establishes that social environmental audit shall be performed by local government, non-government non-commercial organizations and by citizens. Social environmental audit shall be based upon the following principles: (a) legality; (b) objectivity; (c) independence; (d) transparency; and (e) protection of rights and legal interests of individuals, society and the state. Social environmental audit shall perform the following functions: (a) prevention, identification and suppression of environmental offences; (b) environmental monitoring; (c) determination of compliance of projected or performed economic activity with ecological requirements; (d) protection of rights and legal interests of natural and legal persons in the sphere of environmental protection and rational nature management; and (e) and environmental information of public and other organizations, and citizens. Full text Russian Website www.lex.uz