The Development
Aid and Cooperation Office of the European Commission has given  Mongolia 2.5 million euro to implement a
3-year project together with Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
and Uzbekistan. The project will cover the following issues related to uranium
exploitation in Central Asia:

–Formulation
of parameters of a common legislation

–Establishing
a structure to monitor use of radioactive substances and chemical pollution of
water used in production

–Improvement
of technology to determine emission of alpha, beta, gamma and radon

–Training
of specialists for radioactive protection, recovery of environment, and to
prepare monitoring plans and methods

–Establishment
of a database on exploited uranium in the region.