The Uzbek government has set standards that regulate the maximum levels of certain radioactive contaminants in food and building materials. Specifically these are Cs-137 (caesium), Sr-90 (strontium) in food and Ra-226 (radon), Th-232 (thallium), and K-40 (potassium) in building materials. There is, therefore, a demand to set up regional laboratories, equipped with suitable measuring equipment (including gamma spectrometers) and skilled staff to screen such materials and provide "Hygienic certificates on the contents of radio-nuclides". These services were offered in Tashkent by the radio-analytical centre of INP and the State Centre of Sanitary and Epidemiologic Inspection (SCSEI). Similar laboratories have not been set up in the other regions of Uzbekistan due to the lack of facilities and staff skilled in the use of nuclear measuring techniques.

The operations by establishing remote measuring laboratories in six of the fourteen regions of Uzbekistan, namely, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khorezm, Termez and Ferghana, as well as Tashkent. These are all equipped with modern measuring equipment. They are managed by staff skilled in nuclear spectrometry, based in Tashkent (INP) and Samarkand (Nuclear Physics laboratory of Samarkand State University). A computer network is established so that data from the remote laboratories can be accessed in Tashkent and Samarkand to provide quality control of the measurements. This network of laboratories could also be used to assist SCSEI to carry out other environmental monitoring programmes, such as monitoring of Be-7 (beryllium) in air and Rn-222 in water supplies. INP estimated that this network of laboratories would be able to carry out at least 6,000 analyses per year, providing an annual income in excess of £ 90,000. It took 1 year to set up the network of laboratories.

Beneficiary has overfulfilled its obligations. Job creation was over fulfilled: 24 jobs /9 for former employees of INP created (vs.15/9 planned).