Environmental issues, especially air quality, have recently been a public concern. One of the main reasons is harmful gases emitted by vehicles that do not meet environmental requirements, as well as traffic jams. In this regard, at the initiative of the Head of state, comprehensive measures are being taken to improve the environmental situation.

In particular, to solve environmental problems associated with harmful emissions from vehicles, the registration and examination department of the Tashkent city road safety department in “Fayzobod” mahalla of Mirabad district of the capital was transformed into a modern diagnostic center working using a completely new methodology.

Today, the Head of state got acquainted with the center’s activities.

When organizing the center’s work, the best practices in the environmental protection of cities in developed countries, such as Germany, Belgium, and France, were considered.

Here, issuing state license plates and vehicle registration certificates are freed from various bureaucratic obstacles and red tape, and the human factor is minimized. If previously the process of registering a vehicle was carried out in six to seven stages, now the number of stages has been reduced to three.

The main thing is that now the center checks the amount of harmful substances emitted by the car, and depending on the results of the environmental check, a red, yellow, or green sticker with an RFID chip is affixed to the car’s windshield.

Based on the current environmental situation, the city’s territory will be divided into several ecological zones. It is proposed to gradually limit entry into these ecological zones in accordance with the level of pollutants emitted by vehicles, that is, the color of their sticker. At the same time, access to environmental zones for vehicles without permission will be controlled automatically. Fines received for violations will finance measures to improve the ecological situation.

For the system to fully operate, it is planned to install about 100 automatic air monitoring stations throughout the country and equip 84 registration and diagnostic centers, as well as 216 Road Safety Service district offices with modern diagnostic equipment.

In turn, practical measures will be taken to encourage the population to purchase electric vehicles, including reducing the fee for issuing state license plates for this category of cars.