Licensed activities

Certain commercial activities in Uzbekistan require a license, which should be obtained before engaging in such activities. Below is the list of licensed activities.

Financial sector:

• Commercial banks
• Banking operations in foreign currency
• Microcredit organizations
• Credit bureaus
• Professional activity in the securities market
• Insurance activities of insurers and insurance brokers
• Payments system operator
• Payment processing entities

Manufacturing:

• Production of edible and technical ethyl alcohol, alcoholic beverages (excluding natural wine)
• Production of tobacco products

Construction:

• Design, construction, operation and repair of main gas pipelines, oil pipelines
• Design, construction and operation of high-risk facilities and potentially hazardous manufactures
• Development of architectural and urban planning documentation
• Expertise of construction projects
• Repair, construction and installation works at heights by methods of industrial alpinism
• Design, construction, operation and provision of telecommunication networks
• Preservation of immovable objects of tangible cultural heritage

Education:

• Private educational services
• Religious educational institutions

Healthcare:

• Medical services
• Pharmaceuticals
• Veterinary
• Import (export), storage, sale, use and production of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, as well as cultivation of narcotic plants for scientific purposes
• Cultivation, import (export), processing, storage, sale, purchase and transportation of cannabis plant for industrial purposes

Carrier services:

• Transportation of passengers and cargo by domestic and international rail transport
• Urban, suburban, intercity and international transportation of passengers by road transport
• International transportation of goods by road transport

Customs:

• Establishment of a customs warehouse
• Establishment of a free warehouse
• Establishment of a duty-free shop

Extraction of minerals:

• Extraction, processing and sale of oil, gas and gas condensate
• Mining of precious and rare metals, precious stones

Hazardous activities:

• Activities related to use of atomic energy
• Development, production, transportation, storage and sale of explosives, explosive and poisonous substances, materials and products made thereof
• Activities related to sources of ionizing radiation
• Development, production, transportation, storage, sale, use, destruction and disposal of pyrotechnic products (other than for military purposes)

Military:

• Development, production, repair and sale of weapons and ammunition, protective equipment, military equipment, spare parts, components and devices for them
• Elimination (destruction, utilization, burial) and processing of released military-technical items
• Production, repair and sale of civilian weapons and service weapons, and ammunition

Other activities:

• Lawyers
• Private notaries
• Tourist activities
• Publishing activities
• Private employment agencies catering persons looking for work outside Uzbekistan
• Design, development, production, sale, repair and use of products of cryptographic protection
• Organization of lotteries
• Concert and entertainment activities
• Exchange houses
• Wholesale of alcoholic beverages