The Sea Breeze Uzbekistan project at Charvak has not yet undergone a full environmental impact assessment — only the land-selection stage has received approval so far. Gairat Muhamedov, director of the State Center for Ecological Expertise said at a press conference Wednesday.
According to Muhamedov, environmental review is carried out in two stages. The first evaluates the land selected for construction; the second examines the project's full impact on the environment. For Sea Breeze Uzbekistan, only the first-stage documentation — covering land allocation — has been reviewed so far.
"We were given the project's first-stage documents, and an opinion was issued only on the land-allocation question. The second-stage project documents have not yet been submitted. That means the materials needed to assess the issues currently being raised by the public haven't been presented yet," he said.
Muhamedov stressed that the second stage will evaluate the project's impact on plant and animal life, wastewater treatment facilities, the general layout, the buildings to be constructed, and all other relevant data.
"This requires scientific studies spanning autumn, winter and spring, carried out with the involvement of the Institute of Botany and the Institute of Zoology. Those institutes have already reached out to us about this work, and the studies are currently underway. Once complete, they'll submit their findings. Only after these requirements are met will a decision be made on the second stage," the center's director said.
He noted that once the second-stage documents are submitted to the center, they will be reviewed within the legally mandated 25 working days. According to Muhamedov, Sea Breeze Uzbekistan's overall project design is not yet complete, which is why no environmental opinion has been issued for it.
"The project hasn't been finalized. For example, we still haven't been given any design details on what the wastewater treatment facility will look like, its capacity, how many people it will serve, or how many cottages and houses will be built. Developing the project will take about two more years. Right now, work is limited to shoreline reinforcement, tree planting and site preparation. No other construction is underway," he said.
Muhamedov said that as soon as the environmental review's findings are signed, they will be published on the open government portal and on the center's website.
About the Sea Breeze Uzbekistan project
On August 1, 2025, the Cabinet of Ministers adopted a resolution on measures to implement the large-scale Sea Breeze Uzbekistan investment project to build a year-round resort complex. Under the resolution, the government commission on attracting investment, industrial development and trade regulation approved, as the winning bid, a proposal from Azerbaijan's Agalarov Development LLC and its joint venture, Sea Breeze Uzbekistan LLC, to build the year-round resort complex on 577 hectares in the Bostanliq district of Tashkent province.
Among Sea Breeze Uzbekistan LLC's core obligations is carrying out the project in compliance with environmental requirements — including preventing waste and wastewater discharge into the Charvak reservoir and the Chirchiq River both during construction and after the complex becomes operational, and instead directing wastewater to Chirchiq city's wastewater treatment facility.
The Tashkent province administration has said all stages of the project's implementation will be subject to systematic oversight by province bodies responsible for ecology, construction, land cadastre and sanitation.
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