NATURE PROTECTION TECHNOLOGIES DO NOT STAND IDLING

A Center for retraining and qualification improvement of personnel of the sphere of nature protection is being set up under the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the protection of nature.

Mandatory training of specialists of organizations authorized to carry out the government, departmental, and industrial environmental control, as well as developing environmental regulations projects will undergo compulsory training at the courses in the Center.

Re-training of specialists will be conducted in the course of their professional activities, while their qualification improvement will be organized once in five years on a chargeable basis in compliance with the terms and conditions of a contract agreed between the center and the customer. Specialists of the State Committee on the protection of nature will be trained for free at the Center’s courses and on a paid basis – at the refresher courses.

Specialists carrying out public ecological control and such other persons shall have the right to take training at the Center’s courses on a voluntary contract basis for a fee.

For the time of training period experts retain their positions at the principal place of their employment and their average wages. Duration of study at the training courses will make up 10 weeks, and that at the qualification improvement courses – minimum two weeks.

After completion of training courses the specialists shall defend their graduation project papers. The attestation commission will take a decision on the results of interviews with the graduates, as well as with consideration of their professional activity indicators. A relevant diploma or a certificate is issued on the basis of the attestations commission’s decision. Those specialists who fail to pass the attestation exams will have to take another course on a contract basis within one year and take another exam.

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