Uzbekistan is rebuilding lifting-equipment safety around registration, examination and certificates

▌  INDUSTRY BRIEFING  ·  SEPTEMBER 2026  ·  UZBEKISTAN

Uzbekistan is rebuilding lifting-equipment safety around registration, examination and certificates

Three documents set the pace for anyone running cranes in Uzbekistan. Cabinet Resolution No. 53 of 12 February 2026 put mandatory technical examination on load-lifting devices, from tower cranes to electric hoists, and tied it to a label fixed inside the operator’s cab. Cabinet Resolution No. 325 of 25 June 2026, effective 26 June 2026, rebuilt how the expert organisations that carry that examination out are accredited. And a new edition of the Industrial Safety Law, passed by the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis on 21 April 2026, was still before the Senate when this briefing went to press.

The dates do not conflict; they stack. A crane can pass its examination under one resolution while the organisation that signed the conclusion is being re-accredited under another, and while the law that defines what a hazardous facility is sits in the upper chamber. The registration file, not the condition of the machine, is where most site teams first come unstuck.

▌  01  THE TWO DATES

▌  IN FORCE SINCE 12 FEBRUARY AND 26 JUNE 2026  Two Cabinet resolutions already apply. Resolution No. 53 of 12 February 2026 introduced mandatory technical examination for load-lifting devices, and Resolution No. 325 of 25 June 2026, effective 26 June 2026, reworked the accreditation of the expert organisations that perform that examination. Neither waits for the new law. If you are operating in Uzbekistan now, these two are the operative texts.

▌  PASSED 21 APRIL 2026, STILL IN THE SENATE  A new edition of the Industrial Safety Law was passed by the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis on 21 April 2026, and the Senate’s Committee on Defence and Security took it up on 19 June 2026. The text had not been published as a signed law at the time of writing, so its effective date is not fixed. Treat what follows from that draft as direction, not as a deadline.

▌  02  THE BASE LAW AND WHO IT CATCHES

▌  LAW NO. 57 OF 28 SEPTEMBER 2006  The Industrial Safety of Hazardous Production Facilities Act was passed by the Legislative Chamber on 29 June 2006, approved by the Senate on 25 August 2006 and signed on 28 September 2006. Article 4 is the hinge: a facility is hazardous when it uses stationary lifting machines, escalators or cableways. A tower crane on a fixed base therefore falls inside the regime from the day it is erected, not from the day something goes wrong with it.

▌  THE SUPERVISING BODY  Day-to-day responsibility sits with the Committee for Industrial, Radiation and Nuclear Safety under the Cabinet of Ministers. The Committee enters cranes into a state register before commissioning, supervises the timeliness of technical examinations and the condition of safety devices such as limiters and brakes, and takes part in knowledge testing for crane operators, repair staff and the appointed responsible person. It can also suspend a crane from use.

▌  HOW MANY SITES ARE IN SCOPE  The Committee puts the number of industrial enterprises in the country above 59,000, and its inspections of the oil and gas sector in the first half of 2026 alone recorded 985 violations and tested 1,241 employees, of whom 78 did not pass. This is not a regime aimed at a handful of flagship plants; it reaches ordinary sites with ordinary lifting equipment.

▌  03  REGISTRATION BEFORE THE FIRST LIFT

▌  THE FILE THE COMMITTEE ASKS FOR  Guidance the Committee published on 14 November 2025 lists what has to be in place before a tower crane is allowed to work: the crane passport; a conformity certificate; installation records; static and dynamic load-test records taken after erection; foundation levelling records; the lifting works plan; earthing records; an order appointing a trained responsible person; the operator’s certificate; and the slinger’s certificate. A crane kept past its design service life additionally needs a conclusion from an industrial safety expert.

▌  THE FINE FOR SKIPPING IT  Those permits are issued through the single electronic system set up under Annex No. 32 to Cabinet Resolution No. 86 of 22 February 2022. Operating without the required permit carries an administrative fine of up to 200 times the base calculation value, a unit that is re-indexed each year. It is the kind of figure that reaches a project budget rather than a petty-cash tin.

▌  04  THE EXAMINATION AND THE LABEL

▌  THREE KINDS OF EXAMINATION  Resolution No. 53 of 12 February 2026 applies mandatory technical examination to load-lifting devices — tower cranes, mobile lifting platforms, electric hoists and hoists among them. It separates an initial examination, a periodic examination and an examination for equipment kept past its due date, and allows either a full or a partial scope depending on the device. Responsibility for the regime sits with the Committee.

▌  THE LABEL IN THE CAB  On a pass, a label is fixed in the operator’s cab or on the main girder showing the registration number, the rated capacity in tonnes and the date of the next examination. That label is the most checkable item on any Uzbek site: it compresses the whole registration chain into something an inspector can read in ten seconds.

▌  READ THE ORDER, NOT ONLY THE PRESS SUMMARY  Coverage of Resolution No. 53 has come largely through Uzbek national media rather than the consolidated legal database. Where the examination interval for a specific device matters to a contract, confirm it against the resolution text and the Committee’s own guidance before relying on a news summary of it.

▌  05  EXPERT ORGANISATIONS GO DIGITAL

▌  RESOLUTION NO. 325 OF 25 JUNE 2026  Effective 26 June 2026, this resolution approved a new administrative regulation for accrediting expert organisations in industrial safety, framed as an improvement of public services and a digitalisation of the sector. Accreditation is handled fully electronically and the certificate carries a QR code. An organisation that is not accredited may not carry out industrial safety expertise at all.

▌  AND THE CONCLUSION ALREADY SIGNED  Resolution No. 325 also amended paragraph 41 of Cabinet Resolution No. 784 of 2 October 2018, which sets the procedure for industrial safety expertise and the issuing of conclusions. If the organisation that signed your crane’s conclusion is not re-accredited, the paper does not evaporate on the day the certificate lapses — but the audit trail behind it becomes harder to defend.

▌  06  IMPORTS, CERTIFICATION AND THE EAEU QUESTION

▌  UZBEKISTAN IS NOT IN THE EAEU  This is the point most often got wrong in supplier paperwork. Uzbekistan is not a member of the Eurasian Economic Union; it has held observer status since 11 December 2020. TR CU 010/2011, the customs-union technical regulation on machinery safety that importers cite for Russia and Kazakhstan, does not apply to goods placed on the Uzbek market. A certificate issued against TR CU 010/2011 is not an Uzbek certificate.

▌  THE NATIONAL SYSTEM IS O’ZDST AND UZSTANDARD  Conformity in Uzbekistan runs through the national standards and technical regulations administered by the Uzbek Agency for Technical Regulation, known as UzStandard. The framework was refreshed by the Law on Technical Regulation adopted on 27 February 2023, and by Presidential Decree UP-41 and Presidential Resolution PQ-91 of late February 2024, which brought technical regulation under the Cabinet and pointed the system toward WTO-consistent practice. A title for equipment used in explosive atmospheres followed in Cabinet Resolution No. 2 of 6 January 2025. For a lifting product, plan on Uzbek national certification, with documentation and marking to match.

▌  WHAT AN IMPORTER SHOULD PUT IN THE FILE  In practice that means a certificate traceable to an Uzbek technical regulation, instructions and markings in the state language where the applicable regulation requires it, and a declaration that names the standards relied on. A file built only around a European declaration leaves a gap that the registration stage will find.

▌  07  PEOPLE AND CERTIFICATES

▌  RESOLUTION NO. 819 OF 24 DECEMBER 2025  Training, testing and retraining in labour protection were re-based by Cabinet Resolution No. 819 of 24 December 2025, sitting alongside the Labour Protection Law. For lifting work the practical consequence is unchanged: the operator, the slinger and the appointed responsible person each need a current certificate, and those certificates are re-tested on a cycle rather than held for life.

▌  GOST 34466-2018 IS THE COMPETENCE BENCHMARK  The regional standard GOST 34466-2018, adopted by the Interstate Council for Standardisation on 28 September 2018 under protocol No. 112-P and voted through by Uzbekistan’s standards body, sets competency requirements for crane operators, slingers and signallers. It is the clearest published statement of what a certificate is meant to prove, and a useful reference when reviewing a subcontractor’s crew list.

▌  08  WHAT IT MEANS WHEN YOU SPECIFY OR BUY

●  If the crane is imported, is the certificate an Uzbek national certificate, or a TR CU document with no standing in Tashkent?

●  Does the machine arrive with the documents the 14 November 2025 checklist names — passport, conformity certificate, installation and load-test records — or only with a generic European-style file?

●  Who is the appointed responsible person on the project, and is their certificate current?

●  For a crane kept past its design life, has an accredited organisation issued the industrial safety conclusion?

●  Does the safety equipment on the crane carry the same registration number and rated capacity that the label shows?

●  Can you name the next examination date, not just the last one?

▌  09  WHAT TO WATCH

●  The Senate’s handling of the Industrial Safety Law passed on 21 April 2026 — the move to bring “potentially hazardous facilities”, independent audit, mandatory insurance and higher minimum insurance limits into the regime all sit in that text.

●  Whether the examination intervals of Resolution No. 53 are consolidated in the legal database, and whether the cab label format is standardised further.

●  Accreditation under Resolution No. 325: the short list of organisations entitled to sign an industrial safety conclusion is now the practical bottleneck, not the rule itself.

●  The technical regulation on lifts and lift equipment under Cabinet Resolution No. 430 of 12 July 2025, effective 1 July 2026, as a preview of how the Committee will run market surveillance and the national conformity mark.

●  Certification practice at UzStandard. The pace at which national technical regulations displace inherited standards will show up first in lead times for imported lifting hardware.

This briefing summarises Uzbekistani national rules. It is not legal advice, and local rules still govern your site.

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SOURCES

Committee for Industrial, Radiation and Nuclear Safety under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan — gov.uz

Industrial Safety of Hazardous Production Facilities Act, Law No. 57 of 28 September 2006 — natlex.ilo.org

Cabinet Resolution No. 86 of 22 February 2022, Annex No. 32, on permit documents — lex.uz

Cabinet Resolution No. 325 of 25 June 2026 on accreditation of expert organisations — lex.uz

Cabinet Resolution No. 784 of 2 October 2018 on industrial safety expertise — lex.uz

Cabinet Resolution No. 53 of 12 February 2026 on technical examination of lifting devices — upl.uz

Law on Technical Regulation of 27 February 2023 and Presidential Decree UP-41 of 27 February 2024 — hukumat.uz

Eurasian Economic Commission, list of observer states — eec.eaeunion.org

Uzbek Agency for Technical Regulation (UzStandard) — standart.uz

Interstate standard GOST 34466-2018 on crane operator competence — standart.uz