On Measures for Fundamental Improvement of Urbanization Processes

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[ OKOZ: 1. 09.00.00.00 Entrepreneurship and Economic Activity / 09.13.00.00 Urban Planning and Architecture / 09.13.03.00 Main Directions of Urban Planning Activity. Planning the Use of Populated Area Territories] [ TSZ: 1. Economy / Architecture and Construction]

Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan

On Measures for Fundamental Improvement of Urbanization Processes

Within the framework of ongoing structural reforms, the urbanization process has not been taken into account to the appropriate extent as a leading factor in increasing the well-being of the urban population and sustainable development, alongside the implementation of major strategic investment projects. As a result, a downward trend in the level of urbanization has been observed in recent years, and the number of urban populated areas has increased from only 1,065 to 1,071.

Despite the measures taken to transform large rural populated areas into urban-type settlements, the current level of urbanization does not meet modern requirements for the comprehensive development of cities and lags significantly behind global trends. In this regard, the level of urbanization remains unstable.

To ensure effective state regulation of urbanization processes and to introduce modern market mechanisms in the turnover and use of land plots: [ OKOZ: 1. 01.00.00.00 Constitutional System / 01.05.00.00 Population / 01.05.09.00 Migration (see 05.01.09.00); 2. 08.00.00.00 Housing Legislation. Municipal Economy / 08.01.00.00 Housing Fund / 08.01.02.00 Management of the Housing Fund; 3. 08.00.00.00 Housing Legislation. Municipal Economy / 08.04.00.00 Costs of Housing Construction, Maintenance and Repair (loans, compensation, subsidies, benefits); 4. 09.00.00.00 Entrepreneurship and Economic Activity / 09.13.00.00 Urban Planning and Architecture / 09.13.03.00 Main Directions of Urban Planning Activity. Planning the Use of Populated Area Territories]

1. The following are established as the main directions for the fundamental improvement of urbanization processes in the country:

• activation of urbanization processes based on the implementation of an absolutely new housing policy, including the provision of special measures to support investments aimed at constructing affordable housing for low- and middle-income families, using mechanisms for engineering, transport and social infrastructure provision, mortgage lending, and attracting financial resources of business entities;

• guaranteeing the right of physical and legal persons to exercise ownership rights over land plots under residential and non-residential buildings and structures, and creating conditions for bringing land plots into civil circulation;

• creating conditions for the free movement of the population from rural areas to cities by improving the system of administrative regulation of migration processes;

• assisting in ensuring full and effective employment of the population of these cities by ensuring the well-being of the population of large cities and expanding the use of economic and industrial resources, as well as organizing and strengthening the system of technoparks based on higher education institutions and research institutes in the regions;

• wide introduction of advanced international experience in managing medium-sized cities, including district centers, taking into account the use of the advantages of agglomerations, primarily by increasing the income of the population and creating sustainable jobs in the industrial, service and sectors;

• expanding the network of satellite cities adjacent to large cities and having convenient transport links, while reducing the territories of industrial and other zones in the central part of large cities and expanding the territories of socio-business zones.

See previous edition.

[ OKOZ: 1. 02.00.00.00 Fundamentals of State Management / 02.08.00.00 General Issues of State Management in the Sphere of Economy, Socio-Cultural Construction / 02.08.06.00 Administrative Procedures / 02.08.06.04 Provision of State Services; 2. 09.00.00.00 Entrepreneurship and Economic Activity / 09.13.00.00 Urban Planning and Architecture / 09.13.03.00 Main Directions of Urban Planning Activity. Planning the Use of Populated Area Territories; 3. 11.00.00.00 Environment and Natural Resources / 11.03.00.00 Land Use and Protection / 11.03.08.00 Property and Other Rights to Land / 11.03.08.02 Lifetime Ownership Right Inherited by Land Plot (also see 03.08.07.03)]

2. The following procedure is established, according to which:

• legal and physical persons have the right to privatize the relevant land plots in accordance with the legislation on the basis of permanent use (ownership), lease, or lifetime ownership rights inherited;

• the privatization of the specified land plots is carried out on the basis of applications from physical and legal persons through State Service Centers or the Unified Interactive State Services Portal;

• privatized land plots are objects of private property and civil circulation, the right of private ownership to which is inviolable and is protected by the state in accordance with the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On Protection of Private Property and Guarantees of Property Owners' Rights";

• the privatization of land plots is carried out only if the right to them is registered in the state register and the purchase price of the land plot to be privatized is paid in the amounts determined by the Cabinet of Ministers. (The first - sixth paragraphs of paragraph 2 were replaced by the first - fifth paragraphs on the basis of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated June 19, 2023 No. PF-99 -, 20.06.2023, No. 06/23/99/0403)

The Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan:

• within two months, submit to the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan the draft Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On Privatization of Land Plots Not Intended for Agriculture";

See: Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On Privatization of Land Plots Not Intended for Agriculture".

• adopt a government decision establishing the amounts of tiered payments for land plots to be privatized, as well as the procedure for their payment, by June 1, 2019. See previous edition.

3. The Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction of the Republic of Uzbekistan, together with interested ministries and departments, and also involving local and foreign experts, shall submit to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan a draft decree on the approval of the Concept of Development of Urbanization in the Republic of Uzbekistan until July 1, 2019, in the established order, which envisages the organization of new cities and satellite cities, including through the construction of complex housing, by July 1, 2019. (Paragraph 3 in the edition of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated March 26, 2020 No. PF-5975 - Legislative Information Database of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 27.03.2020, No. 06/20/5975/0377) [ OKOZ:

09.00.00.00 Entrepreneurship and Economic Activity / 09.10.00.00 Industry / 09.10.02.00 Management in the Industrial Sector / 09.10.02.02 Management in the Industrial Sector; 2. 09.00.00.00 Entrepreneurship and Economic Activity / 09.13.00.00 Urban Planning and Architecture / 09.13.03.00 Main Directions of Urban Planning Activity. Planning the Use of Populated Area Territories]

4. The following:

See previous edition.

a) The following are established as the main tasks of the Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction of the Republic of Uzbekistan: (The first paragraph of sub-paragraph "a" of paragraph 4 in the edition of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated March 26, 2020 No. PF-5975 - Legislative Information Database of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 27.03.2020, No. 06/20/5975/0377)

• implementation of a unified state policy in the field of urbanization regulation;

• long-term planning of the pace, stages and results of industrialization policy, analysis of long-term demographic trends in cities and villages, and calculation of the demographic capacity of cities and their need for labor force under conditions of rapid industrialization;

• identification of "growth poles", selection of management centers, coordination of policies in the fields of education, labor market formation, internal and external migration;

• development of a comprehensive program of measures to encourage the movement of the labor force from villages to cities, which envisages the establishment of a number of institutional and organizational measures aimed at training and retraining the rural population in new industrial specialties;

• management of the formation of city agglomerations, taking into account the construction of satellite cities that cover social, engineering-communicational and road-transport infrastructure, based on the introduction of advanced, energy-saving, ecologically clean technologies and materials;

• regulation of the comprehensive development of the system of urban population settlement, taking into world practice, and the formation of an effective ratio of small, medium, large and major cities. See previous edition. (Sub-paragraph "b" of paragraph 4 was excluded on the basis of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated June 19, 2023 No. PF-99 -, 20.06.2023, No. 06/23/99/0403) See previous edition.

5. The Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction of the Republic of Uzbekistan, together with the Ministry of Construction, "UzbekgorodstroyLITI" CJSC, "TashkentGorplanLITI" CJSC and "QishloqQurilishloyiha" LLC, shall ensure the inventory of populated areas adjacent to large cities for the purpose of identifying natural and economic potential, and on the basis of the results of the work carried out, form a list of populated areas to be transformed into satellite cities in the medium term, taking into account the implementation of a systematic urbanization process by November 1, 2019, and the comprehensive settlement of new industrial enterprises with social and production infrastructure objects. (Paragraph 5 in the edition of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated March 26, 2020 No. PF-5975 - Legislative Information Database of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 27.03.2020, No. 06/20/5975/0377) See previous edition.

6. The State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Statistics and the Agency shall ensure the improvement of accounting of the urban population and statistical reporting, based on the results of the planned census work and the methodology for calculating the level of urbanization according to international requirements. (Paragraph 6 in the edition of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated February 24, 2025 No. PF-27 -, 01.03.2025, No. 06/25/27/0196)

7. The Ministry of Construction of the Republic of Uzbekistan, together with the Agency, the Cabinet of Ministers of the Karakalpakstan Republic, regional and Tashkent city Khokimiyats, and interested departments, shall submit in the established order a draft decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the approval of the main forecast parameters of state programs for complex housing construction for 2020 - 2025 by June 1, 2019, which shall envisage:

• conducting an inventory with the subsequent transfer to the Fund of vacant land plots, territories of residential buildings unsuitable for living, as well as unused or inefficiently used buildings and structures, for their subsequent infrastructural development and sale;

• gradual approval of existing state programs for housing construction being implemented in accordance with previously adopted decisions of the President and Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan, directing freed funds within the framework of state programs for complex housing construction to the construction of relevant housing;

• financing state programs for complex housing construction with appropriate sources of funding, construction material resources, and the capacity of contracting construction organizations;

• establishing a mandatory requirement to equip and supply a certain part of the buildings and structures being constructed only with alternative energy sources. [ OKOZ:

11.00.00.00 Environment and Natural Resources / 11.03.00.00 Land Use and Protection / 11.03.09.00 Emergence of Rights to Land Plots / 11.03.09.02 Transfer of Ownership and Permanent Use Rights to Land Plots]

It is established that vacant land plots, territories of residential buildings unsuitable for living, as well as unused or inefficiently used buildings and structures transferred to the Fund are considered privatized and may be sold to builders in the future in the established order. [ OKOZ: 1. 11.00.00.00 Environment and Natural Resources / 11.03.00.00 Land Use and Protection / 11.03.03.00 Supervision over Compliance with Land Legislation; 2. 11.00.00.00 Environment and Natural Resources / 11.03.00.00 Land Use and Protection / 11.03.04.00 State Accounting of Land. State Land Cadastre. Land Monitoring]

8. It is established that the Agency:

• together with the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Land Resources, Geodesy, Cartography and State Cadastre, identifies land plots not intended for agriculture in accordance with the master plans of relevant territories and populated areas for the implementation of the Concept;

• together with interested ministries and departments, ensures control over the placement of necessary engineering, transport and social infrastructure on land plots specified within the framework of the Concept. [ OKOZ:

09.00.00.00 Entrepreneurship and Economic Activity / 09.13.00.00 Urban Planning and Architecture / 09.13.03.00 Main Directions of Urban Planning Activity. Planning the Use of Populated Area Territories]

9. The "Roadmap" for ensuring the regulation of urbanization in the Republic of Uzbekistan is approved in accordance with the Appendix.

The Cabinet of Ministers shall regularly submit information on the implementation status of this "Roadmap" to the departments of the Advisor to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Coordinating Legal Support of Reforms and Law Enforcement Activities every quarter.

10. The Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan, together with commercial banks, shall develop and introduce a new lending system by April 1, 2019, which abolishes the requirement for mandatory registration at the place of applying to the bank for business, consumer, mortgage and other loans. See previous edition.

11. The Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction of the Republic of Uzbekistan, together with interested ministries and departments, shall ensure a deep study of the indicators of the most important international ratings and indicators in the field of urbanization, their formation methodologies, and submit proposals for improving the position of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the specified ratings, by attracting independent consultants and experts on a contractual basis, technical assistance funds and grants within three months. (Paragraph 11 in the edition of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated March 26, 2020 No. PF-5975 - Legislative Information Database of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 27.03.2020, No. 06/20/5975/0377)

12. The Ministry of Economy and Industry of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Ministry of Justice shall, within two months, submit to the Cabinet of Ministers:

• a draft government decision on the establishment of the Activity of the Urbanization Development Fund under the Ministry of Economy and Industry of the Republic of Uzbekistan, including the sources of formation of its funds and the procedure for their use;

• proposals on amendments and additions to legislative acts arising from this Decree.

13. It is recommended that the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Company of Uzbekistan, the Press and Information Agency of Uzbekistan, and mass media widely cover the essence of this Decree and the implementation of the measures established therein.

14. Control over the implementation of this Decree is entrusted to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan A.N. Aripov, the Head of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Z.Sh. Nizomiddinov, and the First Deputy Advisor to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan B.M. Mavlonov.

President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Sh. MIRZIYOYEV

Tashkent city,

January 10, 2019,

No. PF-5623

APPENDIX

to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan

No. PF-5623 dated January 10, 2019

"Roadmap"

for ensuring the regulation of urbanization in the Republic of Uzbekistan

See previous edition.

No.	Name of Measure	Implementation Deadline	Form of Implementation	Sources of Financing	Responsible Executors
I. Improving the normative and legal framework in the field of regulating urbanization and improving state housing policy
1.	Development of the draft Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On Privatization of Land Plots Not Intended for Agriculture".	By April 1, 2019	Draft Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan	–	Cabinet of Ministers, ministries and departments
2.	Development of the draft new edition of the Housing Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan, providing for a long-term strategy of housing policy.	By August 1, 2019	Draft Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan	–	Ministry of Housing and Communal Services, Ministry of Economy and Industry, Ministry of Construction, Supreme Court, Ergogeodezkadrast
3.	Development of the draft new edition of the Land Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan, taking into account the privatization of land plots not intended for agriculture.	By July 1, 2019	Draft Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan	–	Ergogeodezkadrast, State Committee for Competition, Ministry of Economy and Industry
4.	Increasing land tax rates and establishing preferential property tax rates for privatized and owned land plots.	Annually	Draft Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan	–	Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction, State Tax Committee
5.	Introducing amendments to the Urban Planning Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan that clearly define criteria for distinguishing cities and rural settlements and provide for the comprehensive development of cities of various categories.	By May 1, 2019	Draft Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan	–	Ministry of Construction, Ministry of Economy and Industry
6.	Development of the draft Regulation on the privatization of land plots occupied by buildings and structures belonging to legal entities and the procedure for determining their market value.	By June 1, 2019	Draft Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers	–	State Committee for Competition, Ministry of Economy and Industry, Ministry of Finance, Ergogeodezkadrast, Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, Khokimliks of regions and Tashkent city
7.	Development of the draft Regulation on the procedure for determining the boundaries of land plots occupied by buildings and structures, as well as adjacent plots necessary for carrying out production activities.	By June 1, 2019	Draft Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers	–	Ergogeodezkadrast, Ministry of Economy and Industry, ministries and departments, Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, Khokimliks of regions and Tashkent city
8.	Development of the draft Regulation on the privatization of land plots allocated for individual housing construction and residential services and the procedure for determining their market value.	By June 1, 2019	Draft Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers	–	State Committee for Competition, Ministry of Economy and Industry, Ergogeodezkadrast, Ministry of Construction, Ministry of Housing and Communal Services
9.	Development of the draft Regulation on the procedure for leasing land plots.	By June 1, 2019	Draft Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers	–	Ergogeodezkadrast, Ministry of Finance, State Committee for Competition, Ministry of Economy and Industry, Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, Khokimliks of regions and Tashkent city
10.	Development and approval of the main forecast parameters of state programs for comprehensive housing construction for 2020–2025, highlighting the most important cities in urban and rural areas.	By June 1, 2019	Draft Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan	–	Ministry of Construction, Ministry of Economy and Industry, Ministry of Finance, Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, Khokimliks of regions and Tashkent city
11.	Development and approval of norms for determining the necessary engineering, transport, and social infrastructure capacities for a settlement within the framework of comprehensive construction, based on the area and number of housing and social objects in territories.	By July 1, 2019	Draft normative and legal documents, draft regulatory documents in the field of technical regulation	–	Ministry of Construction, Ministry of Housing and Communal Services, Ministry of Economy and Industry, State Committee for Automobile Roads, Ergogeodezkadrast
II. Organizing the regulation of urbanization processes
12.	Conducting a census of settlements to determine prospects for the formation of satellite cities.	By June 1, 2019	Complex measures	–	Ministry of Economy and Industry, Ministry of Construction, Ergogeodezkadrast, Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, Khokimliks of regions and Tashkent city
13.	Formation of a list of prospective rural settlements, urban-type settlements, and small cities for the placement of first-priority small industrial enterprises, along with extending the status of the most favorable conditions for implementing investment projects.	By June 1, 2019	Complex measures	–	Ministry of Economy and Industry, Ministry of Construction, Ministry of Agriculture, Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, Khokimliks of regions and Tashkent city
14.	Development of the Concept for the Development of Urbanization in the Republic of Uzbekistan until 2030.	By July 1, 2019	Draft Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan	Technical assistance funds and others	Ministry of Economy and Industry, Ministry of Construction, international financial institutions
15.	Improving the accounting and statistical reporting of the urban population by specific categories of cities and regions, taking into account planned population counting work and the international ranking of the level of urbanization.	Annually	Draft departmental normative and legal documents	–	State Committee of Statistics, Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction, international financial institutions
16.	Development of proposals providing for the granting of a special status to specific categories of cities covered by the urbanization process, specifically:
increasing the number of tax types by the amount exceeding forecast revenues remaining in the city budget;
increasing the share of funds received from land auctions transferred to the city budget;
introducing additional financial incentives aimed at the efficient use of property existing in the city budget.	By June 1, 2019	Draft Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan	–	Ministry of Economy and Industry, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Justice
III. Organizational measures for regulating urbanization and comprehensive development of cities
17.	Optimization of state programs for housing construction implemented in accordance with previously adopted decrees of the President and Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan, while preserving their sources and procedures for financing, as well as directing freed funds within the framework of state programs for comprehensive housing construction to relevant construction projects.	By August 1, 2019	Complex measures	–	Ministry of Economy and Industry, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Construction
18.	Establishment of an architectural council consisting of leading local and foreign cultural figures, architects, historians, archaeologists, including compatriots abroad, for the purpose of restoring the historical and national appearance of built and under-construction buildings and structures.	By June 1, 2019	Draft normative and legal document	–	Ministry of Construction, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Economy and Industry, Academy of Sciences, Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, Khokimliks of regions and Tashkent city
19.	Parallel provision of capacities of contracting construction organizations, construction material resources, and sources of financing for state programs for comprehensive housing construction.	By June 1, 2019	Plan of measures	–	Ministry of Construction, Ministry of Economy and Industry, Ministry of Finance, "Uzkurilishmateriallari" JSC
20.	Step-by-step development of the Master Scheme for Population Placement in the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Planning Scheme for the territories of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and the sectoral schemes for the development of the territories of the Republic of Uzbekistan.	According to the schedule	Draft normative and legal documents	Based on justified calculations	Ministry of Construction, Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction, Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, Khokimliks of regions and Tashkent city
21.	Holding competitions, including international ones, for the development of master plans of cities and detailed location plans of settlements, taking into account modern achievements in urban planning and city planning.	Annually	Draft Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers	Based on justified calculations	Ministry of Construction, Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, Khokimliks of regions and Tashkent city
22.	Making amendments to approved master plans of settlements and engineering-communication infrastructure schemes, taking into account the placement of comprehensive housing construction arrays.	Annually	Plan of measures	Based on justified calculations	Ministry of Construction, Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction, Ministry of Housing and Communal Services, Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, Khokimliks of regions and Tashkent city
23.	Holding presentations, seminars, press conferences, and other similar events to explain the goals, content, and significance of this Decree to representatives of international business circles and foreign investors, including through diplomatic missions of the Republic of Uzbekistan in foreign countries.	Annually	Practical measures	–	Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction, Press and Information Agency, MTRK, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, State Committee for Investments, Ministry of Construction, State Committee for Competition, Ergogeodezkadrast, Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, Khokimliks of regions and Tashkent city

Note: In necessary cases, draft normative and legal documents to be developed in accordance with this "Roadmap" may be amended, combined, or renamed. (appendix in the edition of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated February 24, 2025 No. PF-27 — , 01.03.2025, No. 06/25/27/0196) (National database of legislative acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 11.01.2019, No. 06/19/5623/2461; 27.03.2020, No. 06/20/5975/0377; 20.06.2023, No. 06/23/99/0403; , 01.03.2025, No. 06/25/27/0196)