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EPD Consultant in Uzbekistan

For manufacturers in Uzbekistan that export to the EU, and for Turkish and international suppliers delivering to projects in Tashkent — what an EPD does here today, and what it does not.

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Uzbekistan is an early-stage EPD market. As of October 2026 we could not identify a national EPD programme operator, a national PCR or a published EPD from a manufacturer based in Uzbekistan. That is not a reason to wait. Demand for verified product data is arriving from outside: from the EU border, where CBAM applies to fertilisers, iron and steel, aluminium and cement; from international investors and lenders; and from green building projects in and around Tashkent that specify LEED, BREEAM or EDGE.

This page is written for two readers. Manufacturers in Uzbekistan who export to the EU, and who will meet embedded-emissions reporting before they meet an EPD request. And suppliers from Türkiye and elsewhere who already hold an EPD and want to use it in Uzbek projects. EPDlogy prepares EPDs and independently verifies EPDs prepared by others, as separate services, and works with factory teams in Turkish and English.

New to EPDs? Start with our main guide, the EPD guide — this page focuses on what is specific to Uzbekistan.

Why manufacturers in Uzbekistan are starting to need EPDs and product carbon data

Four drivers — three of them external, one of them a regulatory base that is still being built.

CBAM at the EU border

Uzbekistan exports to the EU under GSP+ and signed an Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement with the EU in October 2025. Chemicals — above all nitrogen fertilisers — are the largest export group; EU countries imported USD 233.5 million of Uzbek fertiliser in 2025 and the government aims at USD 500 million a year. Fertilisers are a CBAM sector: EU importers need embedded-emissions data for them and, from 2027, CBAM certificates. Without verified actual data, the Commission’s default values apply. CBAM reporting is not an EPD — but it stands on the same production data, and a factory that organises that data once can serve both.

Green building projects

New Tashkent — the roughly 20,000-hectare city project started in March 2023 and planned through 2045 — is being designed to LEED, BREEAM and EDGE standards, and the IFC runs a green building programme with the Ministry of Construction. These schemes reward products with verified EPDs in their materials credits. This is why the first EPD requests in Uzbekistan reach suppliers through project specifications, not through regulation.

International investors and lenders

Projects financed by development banks, and developers leasing to international tenants, increasingly ask suppliers for environmental documentation. Local construction-sector commentary already notes that investors ask for international conformity and EPDs that go beyond conventional product certification.

A regulatory base that is still Type I, not Type III

Uzbekistan has started to build the framework. ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 have been adopted as national standards, and Cabinet Resolution No. 474 of 25 August 2022 required their implementation at mining and metallurgy enterprises. The voluntary “Yashil belgi” eco-label — a life-cycle-based, Type I-style mark with a three-year certificate — was established in 2025. A law limiting greenhouse gas emissions entered into force in January 2026. None of these is an EPD scheme: an EPD (Type III, ISO 14025) remains an export instrument in Uzbekistan for now.

Publication routes for manufacturers in Uzbekistan

With no national programme, a manufacturer in Uzbekistan publishes through an international programme operator. The International EPD® System already carries EPDs from Central Asia: a Kazakh ferrochrome producer published an EN 15804+A2 EPD there in March 2026 (PCR 2019:14), valid to 2031 — a useful precedent for the region’s metallurgy and chemical exporters. The standards are the same everywhere — ISO 14025 and EN 15804+A2 for construction products, ISO 14067 for a product carbon footprint — so what you decide is the programme, the PCR and the language, not the method.

For EU-facing exporters the sensible default is an English EN 15804+A2 EPD — or an ISO 14067 product carbon footprint for products outside the construction scope — published where EU buyers look for it. A Russian or Uzbek summary can be added for the home market; the verified document stays in English.

The programme operator should not be selected only by country or publication fee. The product category, target market, PCR availability, recognition, database visibility, verification route and publication process must be assessed together.
The decision method: which programme operator should I use? →

Which programme operators are relevant?

There is no programme operator based in Uzbekistan. Manufacturers here publish through international programmes. EPDlogy is an approved individual verifier in four international EPD programmes, including the one below.

The International EPD® System (IES)

Broad international scope, a public EPD library and a large PCR set. The programme through which the first Central Asian metallurgy EPD was published in 2026 — and the one most EU buyers of Uzbek products will already know.

The choice of programme follows the buyer: if a European customer or a certification scheme expects a specific database, the decision starts there. EPDlogy is not tied to any programme and recommends product by product.

The decision method: how to choose a programme operator →

How the EPD process works

Ten steps, whoever your consultant is. The difference is how much of it survives verification unchanged.

  1. 1

    Goal and scope definition

  2. 2

    PCR and programme operator selection

  3. 3

    Data collection structure and workshop

  4. 4

    Data validation

  5. 5

    Mass and energy balance

  6. 6

    LCA modelling

  7. 7

    LCA report and EPD drafting

  8. 8

    Independent verification

  9. 9

    Comment resolution

  10. 10

    Publication and update planning

EPD preparation and independent verification are different jobs

The independent verifier must not have taken part in preparing the EPD it verifies. EPDlogy therefore never holds both roles for the same EPD. Who does what:

The party that builds the study

EPD preparation (consultancy)

  • Scope and declared unit, selection of the right PCR
  • Data collection structure at the factory and compilation of the data
  • LCA modelling to EN 15804+A2 (or ISO 14067) and PCR rules
  • Impact assessment, interpretation and sensitivity analysis
  • LCA report and EPD document
  • Responses to verification comments and revision
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The party that checks the study

Independent verification

  • Conformity of model, data and assumptions with the PCR and EN 15804+A2
  • Traceability and representativeness of primary data
  • Justification of allocation, cut-off and scenarios
  • Consistency of module coverage with the system boundary
  • Verification comments with reasons
  • Verification report and approval
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If EPDlogy prepares an EPD, its independent verification is done by another approved verifier; if EPDlogy verifies, it has taken no part in the preparation. This is a programme rule, not a preference.

What an exporter in Uzbekistan should settle first

Five questions that save the most rework when answered before the project starts.

CBAM first, EPD second — or both from one dataset

If your product is a CBAM good (fertilisers, iron and steel, aluminium, cement, hydrogen), your EU importer needs installation-level embedded-emissions data now. Build the production data structure so that the same inventory feeds the CBAM calculation and the LCA.

Who will read the EPD

A project specification in Tashkent, a European contractor, a certification scheme, a bank? Fix the reader first; the publication route follows.

Electricity and natural gas data

Gas-based processes and grid electricity dominate the footprint of most products made in Uzbekistan. Metered site data and the source and year of the emission factors must be defined and documented — a verifier will ask.

Standard versions

EN 15804+A2 for construction products, ISO 14067 for a product carbon footprint, ISO 14040/44 underneath both. Uzbekistan has adopted ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 as national standards, which helps factory teams, but the EPD itself follows the programme operator’s rules.

Language of the evidence

Factory records in Uzbek or Russian are fine. The LCA report and the EPD are written in English, and the source documents stay available for the verifier.

Decisions to make before starting

These determine cost, timeline and how usable the EPD will be. They are cheaper to make on day one than in verification round two.

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Verification readiness: what a verifier checks first

“From a verifier’s perspective, the first question is not which software will be used. The first question is whether the production data, system boundary, assumptions and intended market have been defined consistently.”

For factories in Uzbekistan — often large, gas-fired, multi-product sites — these are the points we expect to take the most time:

  • Traceability of primary factory data back to records
  • Product mass balance that closes
  • Natural gas and electricity consumption allocated to the declared product line, not to the whole site
  • Grid electricity factor with a stated source and year — Uzbekistan-specific, not a regional proxy
  • Allocation in multi-output plants (fertiliser, metallurgy, cement) that is justified, not inherited
  • Background dataset and version consistency across the model
  • Transport assumptions for long export routes, including empty returns
  • A5 and end-of-life scenarios that can be traced to the model
  • Module C and Module D consistency, without double-counted recycling benefits
  • Alignment between the LCA model, the LCA report and the public EPD

Which industries in Uzbekistan need EPDs or product carbon data first

Demand follows exports and project specifications, not regulation.

Nitrogen fertilisers and chemicals (CBAM)Steel and rebar (CBAM)Cement and clinker (CBAM)Copper and non-ferrous metals (investor and customer ESG requests)GlassCeramics and tilesInsulation materialsConstruction chemicals and coatingsTextiles for the EU market (product carbon footprint)

How long does an EPD project take in practice?

It depends on product complexity, the number of sites and products, data readiness, PCR availability, the programme operator’s process and how quickly questions are answered on both sides.

In a market without local EPD history, the data structure is usually the long step: deciding what is measured where, and how site-level gas and electricity are split between product lines. Once that exists, each verification round typically takes one to two weeks and two to three rounds are common. A realistic overall window for a well-prepared single-site study is around two months; the first EPD at a site that has never done an LCA is longer. None of this is a guaranteed deadline.

The general process model: how long does an EPD take? →

Mistakes we expect to see in first EPD projects in Uzbekistan

  • Treating the “Yashil belgi” eco-label or a management-system certificate as an EPD
  • Collecting data before selecting the PCR — then collecting it again
  • Site-wide gas and electricity divided by tonnes, without product-line allocation
  • Grid electricity modelled with a regional or Russian proxy instead of an Uzbekistan-specific factor
  • Building a CBAM dataset and an LCA dataset separately, with different boundaries
  • Ignoring empty transport returns on export routes
  • Mixing Module C flows with Module D benefits
  • Publishing results that do not match the LCA report

Why work with EPDlogy for Uzbekistan

Frequently asked questions

Is there an EPD programme operator in Uzbekistan?

Not that we could identify as of October 2026 — no national programme operator, no national PCR and no published EPD from an Uzbekistan-based manufacturer. Manufacturers publish through international programmes such as The International EPD® System, which already lists EPDs from Central Asia.

Is an EPD mandatory in Uzbekistan?

No. There is no legal requirement for manufacturers to publish an EPD. Demand comes from EU importers (CBAM), from green building projects specifying LEED, BREEAM or EDGE, and from international investors. The voluntary “Yashil belgi” eco-label and the 2026 greenhouse gas law are separate instruments and do not create an EPD requirement.

Is the “Yashil belgi” eco-label the same as an EPD?

No. “Yashil belgi” is a voluntary eco-label awarded against national eco-labelling standards over the product’s life cycle — a Type I-style mark that says a product meets criteria. An EPD is a Type III declaration under ISO 14025: it reports verified quantitative results (for example global warming potential per declared unit) and makes no claim that the product is better. A product can have both; neither replaces the other.

We export fertiliser or steel to the EU. Do we need an EPD or CBAM data?

CBAM data first — your EU importer is legally required to report embedded emissions for CBAM goods and, from 2027, to surrender certificates; without verified actual data, default values apply. An EPD is not required for CBAM. But both are built from the same production inventory, so the efficient path is one data structure that serves the CBAM calculation now and an EPD or ISO 14067 carbon footprint when a customer asks.

We are a Turkish manufacturer with an existing EPD. Can we use it in projects in Uzbekistan?

In principle yes: an EN 15804+A2 EPD published through an international programme is what LEED, BREEAM and EDGE materials credits look for, and project specifications in New Tashkent refer to those schemes. Check three things before quoting: that the EPD is still valid, that it covers the product and factory actually supplied, and what the specific project specification asks for — scheme rules decide acceptance, not the country.

Which programme operator should a manufacturer in Uzbekistan choose?

It depends on the product category and where your customers look for data. With no national programme, the question is which international programme has a PCR for your product and recognition with your buyers. EPDlogy is not tied to any programme and assesses this product by product.

Does an EPD prove a product is environmentally friendly?

No. An EPD reports verified environmental information according to defined rules. It does not certify that a product is green, sustainable or better than alternatives — and marketing it that way creates risk. Its value is that buyers, certifiers and regulators can trust the numbers.

Manufacturing in Uzbekistan — or supplying projects there?

EPDlogy can map the route: which of your products face CBAM, which need an EPD for a project, what data the factory has to prepare, and which programme fits. EPD preparation and independent verification are provided as separate services, in accordance with independence requirements.

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Sources

Country-specific statements on this page are based on the following sources, checked in October 2026. Regulations evolve — always confirm current requirements for your product and market.