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Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan

On Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Adopted by the Legislative Chamber on November 7, 2014 Approved by the Senate on November 14, 2014

Article 1. In Part 5, Article 11 of Law No. 223-XII of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On Public Associations in the Republic of Uzbekistan" adopted on February 15, 1991 (Bulletin of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 1991, No. 4, Article 76; 1992, No. 9, Article 363; Bulletin of the Supreme Assembly of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 1997, No. 4-5, Article 126; 1998, No. 3, Article 38; 2004, No. 1-2, Article 18, No. 5, Article 90; 2005, No. 1, Article 18; Bulletin of the Chambers of the Supreme Assembly of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2008, No. 12, Article 640; 2009, No. 9, Article 330), the words "within two months" shall be replaced with the words "within one month". See previous edition. (Article 2 has lost its force on the basis of Law No. URQ-393 of the Republic of Uzbekistan of August 26, 2015 — UR QT, 2015, No. 34, Article 451)

Article 3. The following amendments shall be made to the Air Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 863-XII adopted on May 7, 1993 (Bulletin of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 1993, No. 6, Article 247; Bulletin of the Supreme Assembly of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 1998, No. 3, Article 38; 2000, No. 5-6, Article 153; 2003, No. 5, Article 67; Bulletin of the Chambers of the Supreme Assembly of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2008, No. 7, Article 350; 2012, No. 9/2, Article 246; 2013, No. 4, Article 98; 2014, No. 5, Article 130, No. 9, Article 244):

1. In Part 2, Article 36, the words "Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan" shall be replaced with the words "Interstate Aviation Committee";

2. In Article 38:

Part 1 shall be stated in the following wording:

"A certificate of the type of aircraft is a document issued by the Interstate Aviation Committee, which defines the design of the type of aircraft and confirms its compliance with the airworthiness standards for civil aircraft";

Part 2 shall be deleted;

Part 3 shall be considered Part 2.

Article 4. The following amendments and additions shall be made to the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 1004-XII "On Metrology" adopted on December 28, 1993 (Bulletin of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 1994, No. 2, Article 48; Bulletin of the Supreme Assembly of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2000, No. 5-6, Article 153; 2003, No. 5, Article 67; Bulletin of the Chambers of the Supreme Assembly of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2013, No. 4, Article 98):

1. Article 1:

In the fifth bullet point, the word "physical" shall be deleted;

The tenth bullet point shall be supplemented with the word "(center)" after the words "calibration laboratory";

The twelfth and thirteenth bullet points shall be stated in the following wording:

"accreditation of metrology services, centers, laboratories" — official confirmation of the authority of metrology services, centers, and laboratories to perform work on ensuring the unity of measurements in the specified field of accreditation;

"accreditation of metrology services of legal entities, calibration laboratories (centers) for calibration of measuring instruments" — official confirmation of the authority of metrology services of legal entities, calibration laboratories (centers) to perform work on calibration of measuring instruments in the specified field";

It shall be supplemented with the following fourteenth and fifteenth bullet points:

"metrological attestation of test instruments" — determination of compliance of normalized technical characteristics of test instruments with the requirements of normative documents in the field of technical regulation;

"test instrument" — a technical device, substance and (or) material intended for conducting tests, having normalized technical characteristics";

2. The sixth bullet point of Part 2 of Article 4 shall be stated in the following wording:

"adoption of normative-legal documents and normative documents on metrology issues, including in cooperation with other state management bodies";

3. The word "PHYSICAL" in the name of Section II shall be deleted;

4. The word "Physical", "physical" in the name of Article 5, in the first and third parts shall be deleted;

5. The word "Physical" in the name of Article 6 and in the first part shall be deleted;

6. In Article 7:

The name shall be supplemented with the words "and test instruments";

Part 1 shall be supplemented with the words "and test instruments" after the words "measuring instruments";

Part 2 shall be stated in the following wording:

"The criteria for including technical devices in the category of measuring instruments and test instruments are determined by the Uzstandart Agency";

7. Article 13:

It shall be supplemented with the following fourth bullet point:

"test instruments";

The fourth to seventh bullet points shall be considered respectively the fifth to eighth bullet points;

8. In Part 2 of Article 14, the words "normative documents of the Republic of Uzbekistan" shall be replaced with the words "legislative acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan";

9. Article 15:

In Part 1:

The third bullet point shall be stated in the following wording:

"metrological attestation of measuring instruments, test instruments, and methods of measurement execution";

The fifth bullet point shall be supplemented with the words "test instruments" after the words "measuring instruments";

The sixth bullet point shall be supplemented with the word "tests" after the word "measurements";

In Part 2, the word "physical" in the second bullet point shall be deleted;

10. Part 4 of Article 16 shall be stated in the following wording:

"Recognition in the Republic of Uzbekistan of the results of testing and metrological attestation of measuring instruments carried out outside the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan is carried out in the manner established by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan, taking into account the international treaties of the Republic of Uzbekistan";

11. Part 3 of Article 17 shall be stated in the following wording:

"Recognition in the Republic of Uzbekistan of the results of verification of measuring instruments carried out outside the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan is carried out in the manner established by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan, taking into account the international treaties of the Republic of Uzbekistan";

12. Article 17-1:

In Part 2, the words "accredited metrology services of legal entities" shall be replaced with the words "accredited metrology services of legal entities, accredited calibration laboratories (centers)";

Part 3 shall be stated in the following wording:

"The procedure for accrediting metrology services of legal entities, calibration laboratories (centers) for the performance of work on calibration of measuring instruments and the procedure for conducting calibration are determined by the Uzstandart Agency";

It shall be supplemented with the following Part 4:

"Recognition in the Republic of Uzbekistan of the results of calibration of measuring instruments carried out outside the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan is carried out in the manner established by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan, taking into account the international treaties of the Republic of Uzbekistan";

13. Article 18-1 shall be stated in the following wording:

"Article 18-1. Accreditation of legal entities for the right to carry out metrology work and services

Accreditation of legal entities for the right to carry out metrological expertise of normative documents in the field of technical regulation, metrological attestation of measuring instruments, test instruments, and methods of measurement execution that may be applied and used in the field provided for in Article 14 of this Law, verification, calibration, and testing of measuring instruments is carried out by the Uzstandart Agency in the established manner.

Inspection control of the activities of accredited metrology services, centers, and laboratories carrying out metrological expertise of normative documents in the field of technical regulation, metrological attestation of measuring instruments, test instruments, and methods of measurement execution that may be applied and used in the field provided for in Article 14 of this Law, verification, calibration, and testing of measuring instruments is carried out by the Uzstandart Agency in the established manner";

14. In Article 20:

In the sixth bullet point, the words "normative documents" shall be replaced with the words "normative-legal documents and normative documents";

In the ninth bullet point, the word "physical" shall be deleted;

15. The text of Article 21 shall be stated in the following wording:

"Fees are paid by interested persons in accordance with the terms of contracts established for metrology work and services provided to legal and physical persons, including testing, verification, and metrological attestation of methods of measurement execution, metrological expertise of normative documents in the field of technical regulation, assessment of their technical justification and compliance with established metrology norms and rules, assessment of the quality of measurements and tests, as well as for other types not included in the state financing of metrology activities". See previous edition. (Article 5 will lose its force from August 29, 2023 on the basis of Law No. URQ-819 of the Republic of Uzbekistan of February 27, 2023 — , 28.02.2023, No. 03/23/819/0113) See previous edition. (Article 6 has lost its force on the basis of Law No. URQ-763 of the Republic of Uzbekistan of April 12, 2022 — , 13.04.2022, No. 03/22/763/0306)

Article 7. Article 144 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan, approved by Law No. 2012-XII of the Republic of Uzbekistan of September 22, 1994 (Bulletin of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 1995, No. 1, Article 3; Bulletin of the Supreme Assembly of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 1996, No. 9, Article 144; 1997, No. 2, Article 56, No. 9, Article 241; 1998, No. 5-6, Article 102, No. 9, Article 181; 1999, No. 1, Article 20, No. 5, Article 124, No. 9, Article 229; 2000, No. 5-6, Article 153; 2001, No. 1-2, Article 23, No. 9-10, Article 165; 2002, No. 9, Article 165; 2003, No. 1, Article 8, No. 9-10, Article 149; 2004, No. 1-2, Article 18, No. 9, Article 171; Bulletin of the Chambers of the Supreme Assembly of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2005, No. 9, Article 314, No. 12, Articles 417, 418; 2006, No. 6, Article 261, No. 12, Article 656; 2007, No. 4, Articles 158, 166, No. 6, Article 248, No. 9, Articles 416, 422, No. 12, Article 607; 2008, No. 4, Articles 187, 188, 189, No. 7, Article 352, No. 9, Articles 485, 487, 488, No. 12, Articles 640, 641; 2009, No. 1, Article 1, No. 4, Article 128, No. 9, Articles 329, 334, 335, 337, No. 12, Article 470; 2010, No. 5, Articles 176, 179, No. 9, Article 341, No. 12, Articles 471, 477; 2011, No. 1, Article 1; 2012, No. 4, Article 108, No. 9/1, Article 242, No. 12, Article 336; 2013, No. 4, Article 98, No. 10, Article 263; 2014, No. 1, Article 2, No. 5, Article 130, No. 9, Article 244) shall be stated in the following wording:

"Article 144. Violation of legislative acts on appeals of physical and legal persons

Illegal refusal to accept and consider appeals of physical and legal persons, violation of the deadlines for their consideration without valid reasons, failure to send a response in written or electronic form, adoption of a decision contrary to legislative acts on appeals of physical and legal persons, failure to ensure the restoration of violated rights of physical and legal persons, the execution of the decision adopted in relation to the appeal, or disclosure of information about the private life of physical persons or the activities of legal persons without their consent, as well as other violations of legislative acts on appeals of physical and legal persons, if they caused serious harm to the rights, freedoms or legally protected interests of physical and legal persons, or to the interests of society and the state, –

shall be punished by a fine of up to twenty-five times the minimum monthly wage, or by corrective labor for up to two years, or by imprisonment for up to six months.

Persecution by a должностное лицо (official) of a physical person, their representative, their family members, a legal entity, their representative, and the family members of the representative of a legal entity for the fact that they addressed a state body, state institution, or bodies of self-government, or for the opinion and criticism expressed in the appeal, as well as for criticizing in another form, –

shall be punished by a fine of from twenty-five to fifty times the minimum monthly wage, or by corrective labor for from two to three years, or by deprivation of liberty for up to three years".

Article 8. The following amendments shall be made to the Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Administrative Liability, approved by Law No. 2015-XII of the Republic of Uzbekistan of September 22, 1994 (Bulletin of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 1995, No. 3, Article 6; Bulletin of the Supreme Assembly of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 1995, No. 9, Article 193, No. 12, Article 269; 1996, No. 5-6, Article 69, No. 9, Article 144; 1997, No. 2, Article 56, No. 4-5, Article 126, No. 9, Article 241; 1998, No. 3, Article 38, No. 5-6, Article 102, No. 9, Article 181; 1999, No. 1, Article 20, No. 5, Article 124, No. 9, Article 229; 2000, No. 5-6, Article 153, No. 7-8, Article 217; 2001, No. 1-2, Article 23, No. 9-10, Articles 165, 182; 2002, No. 1, Article 20, No. 9, Article 165; 2003, No. 1, Article 8, No. 5, Article 67, No. 9-10, Article 149; 2004, No. 1-2, Article 18, No. 5, Article 90, No. 9, Article 171; 2005, No. 1, Article 18; Bulletin of the Chambers of the Supreme Assembly of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2005, No. 9, Article 312, No. 12, Articles 413, 417, 418; 2006, No. 6, Article 261, No. 9, Article 498, No. 10, Article 536, No. 12, Articles 656, 659; 2007, No. 4, Articles 158, 159, 164, 165, No. 9, Articles 416, 421, No. 12, Articles 596, 604, 607; 2008, No. 4, Articles 181, 189, 192, No. 9, Articles 486, 488, No. 12, Articles 640, 641; 2009, No. 1, Article 1, No. 9, Articles 334, 335, 337, No. 10, Article 380, No. 12, Articles 462, 468, 470, 472, 474; 2010, No. 5, Articles 175, 179, No. 6, Article 231, No. 9, Articles 335, 339, 341, No. 10, Article 380, No. 12, Articles 468, 473, 474; 2011, No. 1, Article 1, No. 4, Articles 104, 105, No. 9, Articles 247, 252, No. 12/2, Article 365; 2012, No. 4, Article 108, No. 9/1, Article 242, No. 12, Article 336; 2013, No. 4, Article 98, No. 10, Article 263; 2014, No. 1, Article 2, No. 5, Article 130, No. 9, Article 244):

1. Article 43 shall be stated in the following wording:

"Article 43. Violation of legislative acts on appeals of physical and legal persons

Illegal refusal to accept and consider appeals of physical and legal persons, violation of the deadlines for their consideration without valid reasons, failure to send a response in written or electronic form, adoption of a decision contrary to legislative acts on appeals of physical and legal persons, failure to ensure the restoration of violated rights of physical and legal persons, the execution of the decision adopted in relation to the appeal –

shall entail the imposition of a fine on officials from one to three times the minimum monthly wage";

2. The text of Article 241-1 shall be stated in the following wording:

"Obstruction of lawful entrepreneurial activity, that is, violation of the procedure and deadlines for state registration of subjects of entrepreneurial activity, provision of state services established by legislative acts, illegal refusal to register a subject of entrepreneurial activity in the state register or evasion from such registration, illegal refusal to provide a state service or evasion from providing it, violation of the established procedure for checking and inspecting the financial and economic activities of business entities, restriction of the rights and legitimate interests of subjects of entrepreneurial activity, demand for statistics, financial, tax reports and other reports not provided for by legislative acts, or demand for the submission of the specified reports in violation of the established deadlines and procedures, as well as other unlawful interference in their independence or activities, –

shall entail the imposition of a fine on officials from ten to twenty times the minimum monthly wage.

If the same offense is repeated within one year after administrative punishment measures have been applied, –

shall entail the imposition of a fine on officials from twenty to thirty times the minimum monthly wage";

3. The sanction of Article 241-2 shall be stated in the following wording:

"shall entail the imposition of a fine on citizens from two to five times the minimum monthly wage, and on officials from twenty to sixty times the minimum monthly wage".

Article 9. In Part 2, Article 40 of Law No. 154-I of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On the Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan" adopted on December 21, 1995 (Bulletin of the Supreme Assembly of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 1995, No. 12, Article 247; 1998, No. 9, Article 181; 1999, No. 5, Article 124; 2001, No. 1-2, Article 23; 2003, No. 1, Article 8; 2005, No. 1, Article 18; Bulletin of the Chambers of the Supreme Assembly of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2006, No. 9, Article 496; 2007, No. 12, Article 608; 2009, No. 4, Article 133, No. 9, Articles 330, 337, No. 12, Article 470; 2012, No. 4, Article 105, No. 12, Article 336; 2014, No. 5, Article 130), the words "banks, other legal and physical persons" in the third bullet point shall be replaced with the word "banks".

Article 10. In Part 2, Article 53 of the Civil Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan, approved by Laws No. 163-I of the Republic of Uzbekistan of December 21, 1995 and No. 256-I of the Republic of Uzbekistan of August 29, 1996 (Bulletin of the Supreme Assembly of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 1996, Supplement to No. 2, No. 11-12; 1997, No. 2, Article 56, No. 9, Article 241; 1998, No. 5-6, Article 102; 1999, No. 1, Article 20, No. 9, Article 229; 2001, No. 1-2, Article 23, No. 9-10, Article 182; 2002, No. 1, Article 20, No. 9, Article 165; 2003, No. 1, Article 8, No. 5, Article 67; 2004, No. 1-2, Article 18, No. 5, Article 90, No. 9, Article 171; Bulletin of the Chambers of the Supreme Assembly of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2006, No. 4, Article 154, No. 9, Articles 494, 498; 2007, No. 1, Articles 3, 5, No. 4, Articles 156, 164, No. 8, Article 367, No. 9, Article 416, No. 12, Articles 598, 608; 2008, No. 4, Article 192, No. 12, Article 640; 2009, No. 9, Article 337; 2010, No. 9, Articles 335, 337, 340; 2011, No. 12/2, Articles 363, 364, 365; 2012, No. 4, Articles 106, 109, No. 12, Article 336; 2013, No. 10, Article 263; 2014, No. 5, Article 130), the third bullet point shall be supplemented with the words "non-profit organizations" after the words "peasant and farmer farms". See previous edition. (Article 11 will lose its force from October 4, 2023 on the basis of Law No. URQ-850 of the Republic of Uzbekistan of July 3, 2023 — , 03.07.2023, No. 03/23/850/0439) See previous edition. (Article 12 has lost its force from April 1, 2018 on the basis of Law No. URQ-463 of the Republic of Uzbekistan of January 29, 2018 — National Database of Legislative Acts, 30.01.2018, No. 03/18/463/0634) See previous edition. (Article 13 has lost its force on the basis of Law No. URQ-401 of the Republic of Uzbekistan of January 20, 2016 — 2016, No. 3(I), Article 32)

Article 14. The following amendments shall be made to the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 763-I "On Non-Profit Organizations" adopted on April 14, 1999 (Bulletin of the Supreme Assembly of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 1999, No. 5, Article 115; 2004, No. 5, Article 90; Bulletin of the Chambers of the Supreme Assembly of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2007, No. 12, Article 608; 2008, No. 12, Article 640; 2012, No. 4, Article 106):

1. In Part 4 of Article 22, the words "notarially certified" shall be deleted;

2. In the text of Article 23, the words "two-month period" shall be replaced with the words "one-month period".

Article 15. The following amendments and additions shall be made to the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 69-II "On Guarantees of Freedom of Entrepreneurial Activity" adopted on May 25, 2000 (in the edition of Law No. URQ-328 of the Republic of Uzbekistan of May 2, 2012) (Bulletin of the Chambers of the Supreme Assembly of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2012, No. 5, Article 133; 2013, No. 4, Article 98, No. 10, Article 263):

1. In Part 1, Article 5, Clause 3:

The second bullet point shall be replaced with the following second and third bullet points:

"light industry, food industry, and construction materials industry, with an average annual number of employed employees not exceeding two hundred persons;

metalworking and instrument making, woodworking, furniture industry, as well as other industrial and production sectors provided for by legislative acts, with an average annual number of employed employees not exceeding one hundred persons";

The third and fourth bullet points shall be considered respectively the fourth and fifth bullet points;

2. It shall be supplemented with Article 18-1 of the following content:

"Article 18-1. Guarantees from changes in legislative acts unfavorable to subjects of entrepreneurial activity

Legislative acts that entail the complication of the procedure for carrying out entrepreneurial activity, impose new obligations on subjects of entrepreneurial activity, and also establish new measures of responsibility shall enter into force no earlier than three months from the date of their official publication.

The legislative acts provided for in Part 1 of this Article must indicate the deadline for their (or their parts) entry into force";

3. Article 30:

It shall be supplemented with the following Part 2:

"No measures of liability shall be applied to subjects of entrepreneurial activity for violation of the requirements of normative-legal documents and other documents adopted by ministries, state committees, and departments, local state authority bodies, regulating issues of interaction with subjects of entrepreneurial activity, which have not been published on their official websites via the Internet global information network";

The second, third and fourth parts shall be considered the third, fourth and fifth parts, respectively. See previous edition. (Article 16 lost its force on the basis of Law No. URQ-701 of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated July 14, 2021 — , July 15, 2021, No. 03/21/701/0674) See previous edition. (Article 17 will lose its force from February 11, 2024 on the basis of Law No. URQ-877 of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated November 9, 2023 — , November 10, 2023, No. 03/23/877/0841) See previous edition. (Article 18 lost its force on the basis of Law No. URQ-682 of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated April 20, 2021 — Legislative Acts Information National Database, April 20, 2021, No. 03/21/682/0354) See previous edition. (Article 19 lost its force on the basis of Law No. URQ-701 of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated July 14, 2021 — , July 15, 2021, No. 03/21/701/0674) See previous edition. (Article 20 lost its force on the basis of Law No. URQ-1162 of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated August 5, 2026 — , August 6, 2026, No. 03/26/1162/0821) See previous edition. (Article 21 lost its force on the basis of Law No. URQ-601 of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated January 7, 2020 — Legislative Acts Information National Database, January 8, 2020, No. 03/20/601/0025) See previous edition. (Article 22 lost its force on the basis of Law No. URQ-701 of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated July 14, 2021 — , July 15, 2021, No. 03/21/701/0674)

Article 23. This Law enters into force from the day of its official publication.

Article 6 of this Law shall be applied from January 1, 2015.

This Law was published in the newspaper 'Xalq so'zi' issue No. 240 (6170) dated December 12, 2014.

President of the Republic of Uzbekistan I. KARIMOV

Tashkent city,

December 11, 2014,

No. URQ-381 (Collected Legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2014, No. 50, Article 588; 2015, No. 34, Article 451; 2016, No. 3(I), Article 32; Legislative Acts Information National Database, January 30, 2018, No. 03/18/463/0634; January 8, 2020, No. 03/20/601/0025; April 20, 2021, No. 03/21/682/0354 ; , July 15, 2021, No. 03/21/701/0674, April 13, 2022, No. 03/22/763/0306; February 28, 2023, No. 03/23/819/0113; July 3, 2023, No. 03/23/850/0439; November 10, 2023, No. 03/23/877/0841; August 6, 2026, No. 03/26/1162/0821)