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