diff --git a/modules/dnn/test/test_common.hpp b/modules/dnn/test/test_common.hpp
index e98fbf4f91..5fc7447705 100644
--- a/modules/dnn/test/test_common.hpp
+++ b/modules/dnn/test/test_common.hpp
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 #define CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_2019R1_1         "dnn_skip_ie_2019r1_1"
 #define CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_2019R2           "dnn_skip_ie_2019r2"
 #define CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_2019R3           "dnn_skip_ie_2019r3"
+#define CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_CPU              "dnn_skip_ie_cpu"
 #define CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_OPENCL           "dnn_skip_ie_ocl"
 #define CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_OPENCL_FP16      "dnn_skip_ie_ocl_fp16"
 #define CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_MYRIAD_2         "dnn_skip_ie_myriad2"
diff --git a/modules/dnn/test/test_common.impl.hpp b/modules/dnn/test/test_common.impl.hpp
index e55e6cb7b3..a11c6641b2 100644
--- a/modules/dnn/test/test_common.impl.hpp
+++ b/modules/dnn/test/test_common.impl.hpp
@@ -385,13 +385,13 @@ void initDNNTests()
 #ifdef HAVE_DNN_IE_NN_BUILDER_2019
         CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_NN_BUILDER,
 #endif
-        ""
+        CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_CPU
     );
-#endif
     registerGlobalSkipTag(
         // see validateVPUType(): CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_MYRIAD_2, CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_MYRIAD_X
         CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_OPENCL, CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_OPENCL_FP16
     );
+#endif
 }
 
 } // namespace
diff --git a/modules/dnn/test/test_darknet_importer.cpp b/modules/dnn/test/test_darknet_importer.cpp
index 8a633fa566..9983d99ef5 100644
--- a/modules/dnn/test/test_darknet_importer.cpp
+++ b/modules/dnn/test/test_darknet_importer.cpp
@@ -694,6 +694,10 @@ TEST_P(Test_Darknet_layers, shortcut)
 
 TEST_P(Test_Darknet_layers, upsample)
 {
+#if defined(INF_ENGINE_RELEASE) && INF_ENGINE_VER_MAJOR_EQ(2021030000)
+    if (backend == DNN_BACKEND_INFERENCE_ENGINE_NGRAPH && target == DNN_TARGET_MYRIAD)
+        applyTestTag(CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_MYRIAD, CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_NGRAPH);  // exception
+#endif
     testDarknetLayer("upsample");
 }
 
diff --git a/modules/dnn/test/test_layers.cpp b/modules/dnn/test/test_layers.cpp
index 73491fcf25..53b555a56b 100644
--- a/modules/dnn/test/test_layers.cpp
+++ b/modules/dnn/test/test_layers.cpp
@@ -1553,6 +1553,11 @@ TEST_P(Test_Caffe_layers, Interp)
 TEST_P(Test_Caffe_layers, DISABLED_Interp)  // requires patched protobuf (available in OpenCV source tree only)
 #endif
 {
+#if defined(INF_ENGINE_RELEASE) && INF_ENGINE_VER_MAJOR_EQ(2021030000)
+    if (backend == DNN_BACKEND_INFERENCE_ENGINE_NGRAPH && target == DNN_TARGET_MYRIAD)
+        applyTestTag(CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_MYRIAD, CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_NGRAPH);  // exception
+#endif
+
     if (backend == DNN_BACKEND_INFERENCE_ENGINE_NN_BUILDER_2019 && target == DNN_TARGET_MYRIAD)
         applyTestTag(CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_MYRIAD);
 
diff --git a/modules/dnn/test/test_onnx_importer.cpp b/modules/dnn/test/test_onnx_importer.cpp
index ad28cad61a..acc88c9713 100644
--- a/modules/dnn/test/test_onnx_importer.cpp
+++ b/modules/dnn/test/test_onnx_importer.cpp
@@ -406,11 +406,19 @@ TEST_P(Test_ONNX_layers, BatchNormalization3D)
 
 TEST_P(Test_ONNX_layers, BatchNormalizationUnfused)
 {
+#if defined(INF_ENGINE_RELEASE) && INF_ENGINE_VER_MAJOR_EQ(2021030000)
+    if (backend == DNN_BACKEND_INFERENCE_ENGINE_NGRAPH && target == DNN_TARGET_CPU)
+        applyTestTag(CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_CPU, CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_NGRAPH);  // exception
+#endif
     testONNXModels("frozenBatchNorm2d");
 }
 
 TEST_P(Test_ONNX_layers, BatchNormalizationSubgraph)
 {
+#if defined(INF_ENGINE_RELEASE) && INF_ENGINE_VER_MAJOR_EQ(2021030000)
+    if (backend == DNN_BACKEND_INFERENCE_ENGINE_NGRAPH && target == DNN_TARGET_CPU)
+        applyTestTag(CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_CPU, CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_NGRAPH);  // exception
+#endif
     testONNXModels("batch_norm_subgraph");
 }
 
@@ -746,6 +754,13 @@ TEST_P(Test_ONNX_layers, Conv1d_variable_weight_bias)
 
 TEST_P(Test_ONNX_layers, GatherMultiOutput)
 {
+#if defined(INF_ENGINE_RELEASE) && INF_ENGINE_VER_MAJOR_EQ(2021030000)
+    if (backend == DNN_BACKEND_INFERENCE_ENGINE_NGRAPH && target == DNN_TARGET_OPENCL)
+        applyTestTag(CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_OPENCL, CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_NGRAPH);  // exception
+    if (backend == DNN_BACKEND_INFERENCE_ENGINE_NGRAPH && target == DNN_TARGET_OPENCL_FP16)
+        applyTestTag(CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_OPENCL_FP16, CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_NGRAPH);  // exception
+#endif
+
 #if defined(INF_ENGINE_RELEASE)
     if (target == DNN_TARGET_MYRIAD)
         applyTestTag(CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_MYRIAD, CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE);
@@ -842,6 +857,7 @@ TEST_P(Test_ONNX_layers, PoolConv1d)
 
 TEST_P(Test_ONNX_layers, ConvResizePool1d)
 {
+#if defined(INF_ENGINE_RELEASE)
     if (backend == DNN_BACKEND_INFERENCE_ENGINE_NN_BUILDER_2019)
     {
         if (target == DNN_TARGET_MYRIAD) applyTestTag(CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_MYRIAD, CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_NN_BUILDER);
@@ -849,7 +865,12 @@ TEST_P(Test_ONNX_layers, ConvResizePool1d)
     if (backend == DNN_BACKEND_INFERENCE_ENGINE_NGRAPH)
     {
         if (target == DNN_TARGET_MYRIAD) applyTestTag(CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_MYRIAD, CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_NGRAPH);
+#if INF_ENGINE_VER_MAJOR_EQ(2021030000)
+        if (target == DNN_TARGET_OPENCL) applyTestTag(CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_OPENCL, CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_NGRAPH);  // exception
+        if (target == DNN_TARGET_OPENCL_FP16) applyTestTag(CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_OPENCL_FP16, CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_NGRAPH);  // exception
+#endif
     }
+#endif
     testONNXModels("conv_resize_pool_1d");
 }
 
diff --git a/modules/dnn/test/test_tf_importer.cpp b/modules/dnn/test/test_tf_importer.cpp
index cbf2c60ccb..ff9360c600 100644
--- a/modules/dnn/test/test_tf_importer.cpp
+++ b/modules/dnn/test/test_tf_importer.cpp
@@ -230,6 +230,12 @@ TEST_P(Test_TensorFlow_layers, pad_and_concat)
 
 TEST_P(Test_TensorFlow_layers, concat_axis_1)
 {
+#if defined(INF_ENGINE_RELEASE) && INF_ENGINE_VER_MAJOR_EQ(2021030000)
+    if (backend == DNN_BACKEND_INFERENCE_ENGINE_NGRAPH && target == DNN_TARGET_OPENCL)
+        applyTestTag(CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_OPENCL, CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_NGRAPH);  // exception
+    if (backend == DNN_BACKEND_INFERENCE_ENGINE_NGRAPH && target == DNN_TARGET_OPENCL_FP16)
+        applyTestTag(CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_OPENCL_FP16, CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_NGRAPH);  // exception
+#endif
     runTensorFlowNet("concat_axis_1");
 }
 
@@ -290,6 +296,10 @@ TEST_P(Test_TensorFlow_layers, batch_norm_10)
 }
 TEST_P(Test_TensorFlow_layers, batch_norm_11)
 {
+#if defined(INF_ENGINE_RELEASE) && INF_ENGINE_VER_MAJOR_EQ(2021030000)
+    if (backend == DNN_BACKEND_INFERENCE_ENGINE_NGRAPH && target == DNN_TARGET_CPU)
+        applyTestTag(CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_CPU, CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_NGRAPH);  // nan
+#endif
     if (backend == DNN_BACKEND_INFERENCE_ENGINE_NGRAPH && target == DNN_TARGET_MYRIAD)
         applyTestTag(CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_MYRIAD, CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_NGRAPH);
     runTensorFlowNet("mvn_batch_norm_1x1");
@@ -1018,12 +1028,20 @@ TEST_P(Test_TensorFlow_layers, keras_mobilenet_head)
 // TF case: align_corners=False, half_pixel_centers=False
 TEST_P(Test_TensorFlow_layers, resize_bilinear)
 {
+#if defined(INF_ENGINE_RELEASE) && INF_ENGINE_VER_MAJOR_EQ(2021030000)
+    if (backend == DNN_BACKEND_INFERENCE_ENGINE_NGRAPH && target == DNN_TARGET_MYRIAD)
+        applyTestTag(CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_MYRIAD, CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_NGRAPH);  // exception
+#endif
     runTensorFlowNet("resize_bilinear");
 }
 
 // TF case: align_corners=True, half_pixel_centers=False
 TEST_P(Test_TensorFlow_layers, resize_bilinear_align_corners)
 {
+#if defined(INF_ENGINE_RELEASE) && INF_ENGINE_VER_MAJOR_EQ(2021030000)
+    if (backend == DNN_BACKEND_INFERENCE_ENGINE_NGRAPH && target == DNN_TARGET_MYRIAD)
+        applyTestTag(CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_MYRIAD, CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_NGRAPH);  // exception
+#endif
     runTensorFlowNet("resize_bilinear",
                      false, 0.0, 0.0, false, // default parameters
                      "_align_corners");
diff --git a/modules/dnn/test/test_torch_importer.cpp b/modules/dnn/test/test_torch_importer.cpp
index 9eb89f3d78..eb608b52e5 100644
--- a/modules/dnn/test/test_torch_importer.cpp
+++ b/modules/dnn/test/test_torch_importer.cpp
@@ -242,6 +242,15 @@ TEST_P(Test_Torch_layers, net_padding)
 
 TEST_P(Test_Torch_layers, net_non_spatial)
 {
+#if defined(INF_ENGINE_RELEASE) && INF_ENGINE_VER_MAJOR_EQ(2021030000)
+    if (backend == DNN_BACKEND_INFERENCE_ENGINE_NGRAPH && target == DNN_TARGET_MYRIAD)
+        applyTestTag(CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_MYRIAD, CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_NGRAPH);  // crash
+    if (backend == DNN_BACKEND_INFERENCE_ENGINE_NGRAPH && target == DNN_TARGET_OPENCL)
+        applyTestTag(CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_OPENCL, CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_NGRAPH);  // exception
+    if (backend == DNN_BACKEND_INFERENCE_ENGINE_NGRAPH && target == DNN_TARGET_OPENCL_FP16)
+        applyTestTag(CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_OPENCL_FP16, CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_NGRAPH);  // exception
+#endif
+
     if (backend == DNN_BACKEND_INFERENCE_ENGINE_NN_BUILDER_2019 &&
         (target == DNN_TARGET_OPENCL || target == DNN_TARGET_OPENCL_FP16))
         applyTestTag(target == DNN_TARGET_OPENCL ? CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_OPENCL : CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_OPENCL_FP16,
@@ -537,6 +546,11 @@ private:
 
 TEST_P(Test_Torch_layers, upsampling_nearest)
 {
+#if defined(INF_ENGINE_RELEASE) && INF_ENGINE_VER_MAJOR_EQ(2021030000)
+    if (backend == DNN_BACKEND_INFERENCE_ENGINE_NGRAPH && target == DNN_TARGET_MYRIAD)
+        applyTestTag(CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_MYRIAD, CV_TEST_TAG_DNN_SKIP_IE_NGRAPH);  // TODO
+#endif
+
     // Test a custom layer.
     CV_DNN_REGISTER_LAYER_CLASS(SpatialUpSamplingNearest, SpatialUpSamplingNearestLayer);
     try