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[ OKOZ: 1. 03.00.00.00 Civil Legislation / 03.09.00.00 Protection of Property Rights and Other Property Rights; 2. 09.00.00.00 Entrepreneurship and Economic Activity / 09.01.00.00 Legislation on Entrepreneurship / 09.01.09.00 State Support and Protection of the Rights of Entrepreneurs] [ TSZ: 1. Civil Legislation. Entrepreneurship / General Issues; 2. Civil Legislation. Entrepreneurship / Property Rights and Other Property Rights]

Decree

Of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan

On Measures to Ensure Reliable Protection of Private Property, Small Business and Private Entrepreneurship and to Eliminate Obstacles to Their Rapid Development

In order to fundamentally increase the role and place of private property in the republic's economy, eliminate obstacles and restrictions to the development of private property and private entrepreneurship, reduce state participation in the economy, and consistently increase the share of private property, including with the participation of foreign capital, in gross domestic product: [ OKOZ: 1. 01.00.00.00 Constitutional Order / 01.15.00.00 Local State Authority Bodies / 01.15.01.00 Local State Representative Bodies (Councils of People's Deputies) / 01.15.01.02 Powers of Local Representative Bodies; 2. 03.00.00.00 Civil Legislation / 03.11.00.00 Specific Types of Obligations / 03.11.13.00 Credit (see also 07.22.00.00, 07.23.00.00); 3. 09.00.00.00 Entrepreneurship and Economic Activity / 09.12.00.00 Construction / 09.12.02.00 Management in the Construction Sector. Licensing of Activity in the Construction Sector. Permitting Procedures]

1. The Program of Measures to Ensure Reliable Protection of Private Property, Small Business and Private Entrepreneurship and to Eliminate Obstacles to Their Rapid Development is approved in accordance with the Appendix, taking into account the following:

increasing the liability of officials of state, law enforcement, and supervisory bodies for illegal interference in entrepreneurial activity and hindering it, and violation of the rights of private property owners, up to criminal liability;

strengthening guarantees for the protection of private property and continuing the process of liberalizing administrative and criminal legislation regulating entrepreneurial activity;

further simplification of all types of registration, permitting and licensing procedures, as well as procedures related to the implementation of foreign economic activity;

creating the necessary conditions and opportunities for the rapid development of private property and private entrepreneurship, expanding the use of their material and credit resources, and improving the business environment.

Personal responsibility for the timely and high-quality implementation of the measures included in the Program is assigned to the responsible executors — the heads of the relevant ministries, departments, courts, law enforcement and supervisory bodies, and local state authority bodies. [ OKOZ: 1. 09.00.00.00 Entrepreneurship and Economic Activity / 09.01.00.00 Legislation on Entrepreneurship / 09.01.11.00 State Control over the Activities of Entrepreneurship Entities / 09.01.11.01 General Rules. Bodies Conducting State Control over the Activities of Entrepreneurship Entities; 2. 16.00.00.00 Security and Law Enforcement / 16.11.00.00 Criminal Legislation / 16.11.03.00 Punishment and Its Assignment. Exemption from Criminal Liability and Punishment; 3. 18.00.00.00 Prosecutor's Office. Bar. Notariat. Legal Services. Justice Bodies. FHDYO Bodies / 18.02.00.00 Bar / 18.02.04.00 Participation of Lawyers in Court Proceedings] [ TSZ: 1. Civil Legislation. Entrepreneurship / State Supervision over the Activities of Economic Operators]

2. Starting from July 1, 2015, the following procedure is established: See previous version. (The second paragraph of item 2 is excluded from September 1, 2018, based on the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated July 27, 2018, No. PF-5490 — National Database of Legislative Acts, July 30, 2018, No. 06/18/5490/1584) See previous version. (The third paragraph of item 2 is excluded from September 1, 2018, based on the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated July 27, 2018, No. PF-5490 — National Database of Legislative Acts, July 30, 2018, No. 06/18/5490/1584) See previous version. (The fourth paragraph of item 2 is excluded from September 1, 2018, based on the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated July 27, 2018, No. PF-5490 — National Database of Legislative Acts, July 30, 2018, No. 06/18/5490/1584)

the activities of economic operators in relation to initiated criminal cases are carried out with the mandatory participation of lawyers engaged by the economic operator (except in cases where the economic operator refuses this right);

a criminal case is not initiated against a person who has committed for the first time a crime provided for in Article 184 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan (evading payment of taxes or other mandatory payments), and who has fully compensated the damage caused to the state, and paid penalties and other types of financial sanctions within 30 days from the moment the crime was detected; such a person is released from liability. See previous version. (The seventh paragraph of item 2 is excluded from September 1, 2018, based on the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated July 27, 2018, No. PF-5490 — National Database of Legislative Acts, July 30, 2018, No. 06/18/5490/1584) [ OKOZ: 1. 16.00.00.00 Security and Law Enforcement / 16.11.00.00 Criminal Legislation / 16.11.02.00 Crime and Criminal Liability; 2. 18.00.00.00 Prosecutor's Office. Bar. Notariat. Legal Services. Justice Bodies. FHDYO Bodies / 18.01.00.00 Prosecutor's Office / 18.01.03.00 Prosecutor's Supervision]

3. The Prosecutor General of the Republic of Uzbekistan:

strengthens control over the implementation in practice of the norms adopted regarding guarantees of freedom of entrepreneurial activity, ensures the increase of mandatory liability, up to criminal liability, for officials of authorized supervisory, law enforcement, and authorized state bodies for violating the rights and legitimate interests of entrepreneurship entities;

by July 1, 2015, in cooperation with the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the Republic of Uzbekistan, organizes a system for round-the-clock reception of appeals regarding unfounded interference by state, law enforcement, and supervisory bodies in the activities of small business and private entrepreneurship entities, hindering entrepreneurial activity, and violation of property owners' rights, based on the Unified Call Center of JSC "Uzbektelecom" and the "hotline" database of the Prosecutor General's Office, and takes legal measures against persons guilty of violating the legislation on guarantees of freedom of entrepreneurial activity. [ OKOZ: 1. 01.00.00.00 Constitutional Order / 01.06.00.00 Rights, Freedoms and Duties of Man and Citizen / 01.06.03.00 Basic (Constitutional) Political Rights and Freedoms / 01.06.03.04 Right to Address with Applications, Suggestions and Complaints; 2. 17.00.00.00 Fair Trial / 17.02.00.00 Court System / 17.02.05.00 Economic Courts of the Karakalpakstan Republic, Regions and the City of Tashkent; 3. 17.00.00.00 Fair Trial / 17.05.00.00 Civil Procedural Legislation / 17.05.07.00 Enforcement of Decisions of Courts and Other Bodies]

4. It is established that: See previous version.

economic courts are granted the right to suspend the enforcement of a regulatory body's decision during the period of consideration of the relevant claim, upon complaint by the entrepreneurship entity; (The second paragraph of item 4 is amended in the edition of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated September 11, 2017, No. PF-5187 — O'zbekiston Respublikasi Qonun Hujjatlari Majmuasi, 2017, No. 37, Article 980)

in cases related to violations of tax and customs legislation by entrepreneurship entities, their property is seized only by court order; See previous version.

additional calculated customs payments disputed by entrepreneurship entities are collected in accordance with the decision of the economic court; (The fourth paragraph of item 4 is amended in the edition of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated September 11, 2017, No. PF-5187 — O'zbekiston Respublikasi Qonun Hujjatlari Majmuasi, 2017, No. 37, Article 980)

The Supreme Economic Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan, in cooperation with the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Finance, and other interested ministries and departments, submits proposals to the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan within three months regarding measures to further increase the role and effectiveness of the judiciary in reliably protecting the legitimate interests and rights of entrepreneurship entities, accelerating the consideration of claims by entrepreneurship entities, including through the wide introduction of information and communication technologies. See previous version.

[ OKOZ: 1. 02.00.00.00 Fundamentals of State Administration / 02.08.00.00 General Issues of State Administration in the Sphere of Economy, Social and Cultural Construction / 02.08.06.00 Administrative Procedures / 02.08.06.04 Provision of State Services; 2. 07.00.00.00 Legislation on Finance and Credit. Banking Activity / 07.09.00.00 Tax Legislation / 07.09.03.00 Taxes and Fees; 3. 07.00.00.00 Legislation on Finance and Credit. Banking Activity / 07.09.00.00 Tax Legislation / 07.09.06.00 Temporary Tax Exemptions]

5. Starting from July 1, 2015, sole proprietors are granted the right to hire from one to three employees, subject to the condition of paying a fixed tax in the amount of 30 percent of the rate established for sole proprietors-employers, depending on their activity. (The first paragraph of item 5 is amended in the edition of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated April 30, 2021, No. PF-6218 — , April 30, 2021, No. 06/21/6218/0398)

Sole proprietors are exempt from the fixed tax for hired employees for twelve months starting from the graduation from a vocational college if they hire graduates of the vocational college. [ OKOZ: 1. 02.00.00.00 Fundamentals of State Administration / 02.08.00.00 General Issues of State Administration in the Sphere of Economy, Social and Cultural Construction / 02.08.06.00 Administrative Procedures / 02.08.06.04 Provision of State Services]

6. The proposal of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Finance, the State Committee for Architecture and Construction, and the inspection bodies for the registration of entrepreneurship entities under the district (city) hokimiyats of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry to organize unified centers for the provision of state services to entrepreneurship entities on the basis of the "one-stop-shop" principle (hereinafter referred to as "one-stop-shop" centers) is accepted. See previous version. (The second paragraph of item 6 is excluded based on the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated January 15, 2018, No. PF-5302) [ OKOZ:

02.00.00.00 Fundamentals of State Administration / 02.08.00.00 General Issues of State Administration in the Sphere of Economy, Social and Cultural Construction / 02.08.06.00 Administrative Procedures / 02.08.06.04 Provision of State Services]

7. The Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan, in cooperation with the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications, the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Finance, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and other interested ministries and departments:

ensures that by July 1, 2015, all state services provided by "one-stop-shop" services under various departments are fully inventoried, the services provided by "one-stop-shop" centers are integrated into the system, and model forms of founding documents and other documents submitted for using state services, including licenses and permitting procedures, are developed;

ensures that the activities of "one-stop-shop" centers begin no later than January 1, 2016, and from this date, it is prohibited for other state and economic management bodies to directly accept documents from entrepreneurship entities for services provided by "one-stop-shop" centers. See previous version.

[ OKOZ: 1. 02.00.00.00 Fundamentals of State Administration / 02.08.00.00 General Issues of State Administration in the Sphere of Economy, Social and Cultural Construction / 02.08.06.00 Administrative Procedures / 02.08.06.04 Provision of State Services; 2. 07.00.00.00 Legislation on Finance and Credit. Banking Activity / 07.09.00.00 Tax Legislation / 07.09.03.00 Taxes and Fees; 3. 07.00.00.00 Legislation on Finance and Credit. Banking Activity / 07.09.00.00 Tax Legislation / 07.09.05.00 Exemptions and Preferences for Taxes and Fees; 4. 07.00.00.00 Legislation on Finance and Credit. Banking Activity / 07.18.00.00 State Duty / 07.18.02.00 Amounts of State Duty]

8. It is established that: See previous version.

funds in the amount of 80 percent of the state duty sum for the registration of entrepreneurship entities in the state register, as well as funds in the amount of 18 percent of the sum of state duties, fees, and all types of payments paid for state services provided through State Service Centers and their branches; (The second paragraph of item 8 is amended in the edition of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated January 31, 2023, No. PF-16 — , February 2, 2023, No. 06/23/16/0067) See previous version.

funds in the amount of 10 percent of the sum of state duties, fees, and all types of payments paid for state services provided (except for the state service for issuing a permit to change the tint (darken) of vehicle windows) based on independent appeals of applicants directed through the Unified Interactive State Services Portal of the Republic of Uzbekistan are transferred to the personal account of the Fund for the Development of State Services of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan. (The third paragraph of item 8 is amended in the edition of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated March 17, 2022, No. PF-89 — , March 18, 2022, No. 06/22/89/0227)

9. The Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Finance, the State Committee for Privatization, Deregulation and Competition Development, the State Tax Committee, the Central Bank, and other interested ministries and departments of the Republic of Uzbekistan jointly submit proposals to the Cabinet of Ministers within two months on introducing amendments and additions to the legislation arising from this Decree.

10. Control over the implementation of this Decree is assigned to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Sh. Mirziyoyev.

This Decree was published in the "Halk So'zi" newspaper on May 16, 2015, No. 98 (6281)

President of the Republic of Uzbekistan I. KARIMOV

Tashkent city,

May 15, 2015,

No. PF-4725

APPENDIX

to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated May 15, 2015, No. PF-4725

PROGRAM

of Measures to Ensure Reliable Protection of Private Property, Small Business and Private Entrepreneurship and to Eliminate Obstacles to Their Rapid Development

No.	Name of Measures	Implementation Mechanism	Implementation Period	Responsible Executors
I. INCREASING THE LEVEL OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY FOR OFFICIALS OF STATE, LAW ENFORCEMENT, AND CONTROL BODIES FOR ILLEGAL INTERFERENCE WITH ENTREPRENEURSHIP, OBSTRUCTION, AND VIOLATION OF PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS' RIGHTS
1.	Strengthening administrative liability measures for obstruction of entrepreneurship, illegal interference, and other violations harming the rights and legitimate interests of private property owners and entrepreneurs, including specific administrative fines for:

• violation of the procedure for checking and inspecting the financial and economic activities of economic entities by law enforcement and control bodies;
• violation of the procedure for providing state services;
• demanding documents not provided for by legislation from subjects of entrepreneurship;
• illegal suspension of the activities of economic entities and (or) operations on their bank accounts;
• groundless demand for information about funds in the accounts of economic entities;
• forced involvement of economic entities in charitable or other events related to the allocation of funds;
• violation of legislative requirements regarding the permitting procedure. | Insertion of a separate Chapter XVI-1 "Administrative Liability for Obstruction of Entrepreneurial Activity, Illegal Interference, and Other Violations Encroaching on the Rights and Legitimate Interests of Economic Entities" into the Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Administrative Liability | Deadline for submission to the Cabinet of Ministers — August 2015 | Ministry of Justice, Prosecutor General's Office, Supreme Court, Supreme Economic Court, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Finance, Central Bank, Chamber of Commerce and Industry | | 2. | Increasing the responsibility of officials of control, law enforcement, and other state bodies through:
• application of punishment measures up to criminal liability for persons who obstruct lawful entrepreneurial activity and violate legislation on protecting the freedom of entrepreneurial activity several times;
• violation of the rights of private property owners, including encroachment on private property, forcing acceptance of conditions whose unlawfulness was obvious in advance, as well as groundless demand for the transfer of property and property rights, as well as seizure of property by force or forcing renunciation of private property. In this case, the person who committed this offense is released from criminal liability if they pay the material damage caused. | Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan | Deadline for submission to the Cabinet of Ministers — August 2015 | Prosecutor General's Office, Ministry of Justice, Supreme Court, Supreme Economic Court, MIA, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Finance, Central Bank, Chamber of Commerce and Industry | | Amendments and additions to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Administrative Liability | Deadline for submission to the Cabinet of Ministers — August 2015 | Prosecutor General's Office, Ministry of Justice, MIA, State Committee for Competition, Supreme Court, Supreme Economic Court, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economy, Chamber of Commerce and Industry | | 3. | Strengthening the criminal liability of state body employees by qualifying bribery from entrepreneurs in connection with the implementation of entrepreneurial activity as an aggravating circumstance. | Additions to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan | Deadline for submission to the Cabinet of Ministers — August 2015 | Prosecutor General's Office, Ministry of Justice, Supreme Court, MIA | | 4. | Further improvement of procedural norms for compensating damages caused to entrepreneurial entities by state bodies and their officials through:
• introduction of a mechanism for full compensation of damage, including lost profits, caused to an entrepreneurial entity as a result of actions (inaction) of state bodies, self-government bodies, or officials, including adoption of documents not relevant to legislation;
• establishment of administrative liability for damages caused to buildings, other structures, facilities, or tree plantations on land plots being withdrawn, due to failure to provide prior and full compensation at market value. | Amendments and additions to the Civil Code, Economic Procedural Code, and the Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Administrative Liability | Deadline for submission to the Cabinet of Ministers — August 2015 | Ministry of Justice, State Committee for Competition, Prosecutor General's Office, Supreme Court, Supreme Economic Court, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economy, Chamber of Commerce and Industry | | 5. | Privileges and preferences provided for by legislation for entrepreneurial entities are applied without their written requests. | Amendments to the Law "On Guarantees of Freedom of Entrepreneurial Activity" | Deadline for submission to the Cabinet of Ministers — June 2015 | Ministry of Justice, Prosecutor General's Office, State Committee for Competition, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economy, SCS, SBC, State Statistics Committee, Chamber of Commerce and Industry | | 6. | Further improvement of the legal regulation system in the field of entrepreneurial activity through:
• full inventory of normative legal documents in the field of entrepreneurial activity, analysis of law enforcement practice, and development of proposals for their further improvement and unification (eliminating repetitions, references, outdated norms, contradictions in legislative acts, etc.);
• inventorying normative legal documents regulating entrepreneurial activity | Implementation Period — May – August 2015 | Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economy, ITIS, Prosecutor General's Office, Supreme Court, Supreme Economic Court, MIA, State Committee for Competition, SCS, SBC |
• codification of legislation in the field of entrepreneurial activity, expansion of the practice of adopting directly acting laws, and consistent reduction of the adoption of departmental normative legal documents in the field of entrepreneurial activity. | Complex measures | Implementation Period — 2015-2016 | Central Bank, Chamber of Commerce and Industry, ministries and departments | | 7. | Organization of a system for receiving round-the-clock appeals regarding unfounded interference in the activities of small business and private entrepreneurial entities by state, law enforcement, and control bodies, obstruction of entrepreneurial activity, and violation of property owners' rights, based on the "Uzbektelecom" JSC Call Center and the Prosecutor General's Office "Trust Line," and taking legal measures against persons guilty of violating legislation on guarantees of freedom of entrepreneurial activity. | Departmental document | By June 1, 2015 | Prosecutor General's Office, Ministry of Information Technologies | | II. STRENGTHENING GUARANTEES OF PROTECTION OF PRIVATE PROPERTY, CONTINUING THE PROCESS OF LIBERALIZING ADMINISTRATIVE AND CRIMINAL LEGISLATION REGULATING ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY | | 8. | Strengthening the protection of legal and legitimate interests of economic entities and simplifying their procedure for appealing to courts by establishing a procedure for checking the activities of economic entities by law enforcement bodies in connection with initiated criminal cases with the participation of lawyers hired by the economic entity (except in cases where the economic entity explicitly refuses this right in writing). | Amendments and additions to legislative acts | Deadline for submission to the Cabinet of Ministers — August 2015 | Prosecutor General's Office, Ministry of Justice, Supreme Economic Court, SCS, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economy, Chamber of Commerce and Industry | | 9. | Establishment of a procedure for not initiating a criminal case and releasing a person from liability if the person commits the crime provided for in Article 184 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan for the first time and, within 30 days after the crime is detected, fully compensates for the damage caused to the state in the form of evasion from payment of taxes or other mandatory payments, and pays penalties and other types of financial sanctions. In this case, the fact of this offense and the person who committed it are subject to mandatory registration with the Information Center of the MIA of the Republic of Uzbekistan. | Amendments and additions to legislative acts | Deadline for submission to the Cabinet of Ministers — August 2015 | Prosecutor General's Office, Ministry of Justice, Supreme Economic Court, SCS, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economy, Chamber of Commerce and Industry | | 10. | Decriminalization of criminal legislation by transferring offenses in the field of trade, sales, and brokerage activities, excluding very large-scale offenses, from criminal jurisdiction to administrative jurisdiction. | Additions to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Administrative Liability | Deadline for submission to the Cabinet of Ministers — June 2015 | Prosecutor General's Office, Ministry of Justice, Supreme Court, Supreme Economic Court, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Finance, Chamber of Commerce and Industry | | 11. | Establishment of such a procedure according to which deprivation of liberty is not applied if the damage caused is fully compensated in cases of fake bankruptcy and concealing bankruptcy by officials of economic entities. | Additions to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan | Deadline for submission to the Cabinet of Ministers — June 2015 | Ministry of Justice, State Committee for Competition, Prosecutor General's Office, Supreme Economic Court, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Finance, Chamber of Commerce and Industry | | 12. | Full inventory of the functions and powers of control bodies and preparation of proposals for further reduction of unfounded practices of control bodies that hinder business development, based on the results, taking into account:
• establishment of a unified procedure for checking the activities of economic entities;
• establishment of a full list of checking bodies with indicated control powers;
• establishment of a unified periodic inspection schedule: no more than once every 4 years for micro-enterprises, small enterprises, and farm holdings, and no more than once every 3 years for other entrepreneurial entities;
• reduction of the period for conducting non-financial and economic activity inspections from 30 to 10 calendar days;
• establishment as the main criterion for evaluating the work of control bodies the quality of preventive work to prevent offenses before complex inspections of entrepreneurial entities are scheduled;
• providing the opportunity to correct errors made during the inspection of entrepreneurial entities;
• elimination of cases of liquidation of entrepreneurial entities based on inspection results;
• strengthening the responsibility of tax, customs, and other control bodies for illegal interference in the activities of entrepreneurial entities, obstruction of lawful entrepreneurial activity, and increasing the number of unscheduled inspections;
• development of preventive measures aimed at increasing the legal literacy of entrepreneurial entities and improving the effectiveness of preventive work to eliminate violations in their activities. | Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On State Control over the Activities of Entrepreneurial Entities" (new edition) Amendments and additions to legislative acts Complex measures | Deadline for submission to the Cabinet of Ministers — Q2 2015 | Republican Council for Coordinating the Activities of Control Bodies, SCS, Ministry of Justice, Prosecutor General's Office, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economy, Chamber of Commerce and Industry, control bodies | | 13. | Reduction of the criteria for applying a moratorium on tax inspections for the financial and economic activities of small entrepreneurial entities from three to two:
• timely payment of taxes and other mandatory payments by them;
• ensuring the growth of production (works, services) volumes. | Amendments to legislative acts | Q2 2015 | SCS, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Economy, Chamber of Commerce and Industry | | 14. | Strengthening the guarantee of protection of the rights of entrepreneurial entities through:
• granting the right to economic courts to suspend the execution of the complained action (decision) of a control body;
• reducing the period for issuing a ruling on accepting a claim for consideration and preparing the case for court hearing by economic courts from 10 days to 5 days;
• establishment of such a procedure according to which the seizure of property of entrepreneurial entities violating tax and customs legislation is carried out only on the basis of court decisions;
• exemption of non-contentious parties (control bodies and subjects of entrepreneurial activity) from state duty in cases concerning the application of measures of legal influence (suspension of activity; liquidation and (or) re-profiling of objects harmful to the surrounding natural environment, application of financial sanctions in addition to calculating penalties for missed deadlines for payment of taxes and other mandatory payments). | Amendments to the Economic Procedural Code, Code on Administrative Liability, and other legislative acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan | Deadline for submission to the Cabinet of Ministers — June 2015 | Supreme Economic Court, Ministry of Justice, Prosecutor General's Office, Ministry of Economy, Chamber of Commerce and Industry | | 15. | Strengthening the protection of guarantees and rights of entrepreneurial entities in carrying out export-import operations by establishing the following procedure:
• additional customs payments disputed by the payer are collected based on a court decision;
• the overpaid amount or collected customs payments must be returned or, at the payer's request, credited towards future payments within three years from the date of payment or collection of such payments in the manner provided for by legislation. | Amendments and additions to legislative acts | Deadline for submission to the Cabinet of Ministers — June 2015 | SBC, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Economy, Supreme Economic Court, Chamber of Commerce and Industry | | 16. | Further liberalization of criminal legislation by introducing separate articles in the Criminal Code providing for lighter punishment for illegal receipt of material benefit (commercial bribery) and abuse of powers, thereby easing liability for officials exercising administrative distribution and administrative-economic powers in entrepreneurial structures and other non-governmental organizations. In this case, punishment in the form of deprivation of liberty is not applied if the material damage caused by the specified offenses is fully compensated. | Additions to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan | Deadline for submission to the Cabinet of Ministers — June 2015 | Prosecutor General's Office, Ministry of Justice, Supreme Court, Supreme Economic Court, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economy, Chamber of Commerce and Industry | | III. FURTHER SIMPLIFICATION OF ALL TYPES OF REGISTRATION, PERMITTING AND LICENSING, AND PROCEDURES FOR CARRYING OUT FOREIGN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY | | 17. | Organization of single centers for providing state services to entrepreneurial entities on the basis of the "single window" principle instead of existing separate types of state services under various departments, based on entrepreneurial entity registration inspections at district (city) administrations, taking into account:
• simplification of procedures for using state services by physical and legal persons, reduction of the number of documents and their deadlines by unifying and automating the process of providing state services;
• prevention of direct contacts between officials making decisions on providing state services and applicants by increasing the level of information support of state body activities in providing state services;
• increasing transparency and strengthening control over the activities of officials in providing state services. Equipping "Single Window" centers with modern computer and office equipment at the expense of local budgets. | Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan | Complex measures | Deadline for submission to the Cabinet of Ministers — June 2015 Mechanism implementation — from January 2016 | Q3 2015 | Ministry of Justice, Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Ministry of Economy, State Committee for Architecture and Construction, "Davergeodezkadaster" Committee, Ministry of Information Technologies, Ministry of Finance, SCS, Ministry of Justice, "Uzbekenergo" JSC, Cabinet of Ministers of the Karakalpakstan Republic, regional and Tashkent city administrations, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Justice, Cabinet of Ministers of the Karakalpakstan Republic, regional and Tashkent city administrations, Ministry of Information Technologies, Chamber of Commerce and Industry | | 18. | Reduction of unnecessary documents and procedures required for carrying out entrepreneurial activity, including the development of the following mandatory requirements:
• presence of a round seal for small entrepreneurial entities;
• presence of a legal service opinion or hired lawyers for entrepreneurial entities when concluding economic contracts;
• retention of the mechanism for mandatory entry of information about the payment of customs duties through the Single Automated Information System of the State Customs Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan, while submitting documents confirming the payment of customs duties to state customs service bodies;
• submission of a copy of the certificate of state registration by entrepreneurial entities during the process of obtaining permits, licensing, and other state services. | Amendments and additions to legislative acts | Deadline for submission to the Cabinet of Ministers — June 2015 | Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Finance, ITIS, SCS, Central Bank, SBC, Ministry of Information Technologies, Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Supreme Economic Court | | 19. | Simplification of the system of payments allocated to accumulated pension accounts of employees by legal entities, further improvement of the single electronic database of the accumulated pension system, taking into account:
• introduction of the procedure for receiving and processing electronic registers of accumulated pension accounts of the Xalq Bank during the state registration of legal entities on the Single Portal of Interactive State Services of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
• registration of citizens in the accumulated pension system through applications processed in electronic form for entrepreneurial entities, as well as opening personal accumulated pension accounts through the personal "entrepreneurial entity cabinet" on the Single Portal of Interactive State Services;
• providing legal entities with the opportunity to make amendments and additions to the registry of information about employees participating in the accumulated pension system through the Single Portal of Interactive State Services. | Amendments and additions to legislative acts | Deadline for submission to the Cabinet of Ministers — Q2 2015 Implementation mechanism — from July 1, 2015 | Xalq Bank, Ministry of Finance, Central Bank, SCS, Ministry of Information Technologies, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Justice | | 20. | Simplification of procedures related to carrying out foreign economic activity, taking into account:
• approval of the full list of documents required for carrying out export-import operations;
• prohibition of demanding additional documents not provided for in this list of documents. | Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan | Deadline for submission to the Cabinet of Ministers — June 2015 | ITIS, SBC, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Finance, Central Bank, Chamber of Commerce and Industry | | 21. | Simplification of the procedure for the activities of individual entrepreneurs bringing goods for commercial activity through:
• cancellation of the procedure for registering them as participants in foreign economic relations in the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, Investments and Trade and state customs service bodies;
• reduction of the number of documents submitted for customs clearance of imported goods by eliminating unnecessary and outdated documents not meeting modern requirements. | Amendments and additions to legislative acts | Deadline for submission to the Cabinet of Ministers — June 2015 | SBC, SCS, ITIS, Ministry of Economy, Chamber of Commerce and Industry | | 22. | Further improvement of processes related to the provision of land plots and obtaining construction-related permits through:
• introduction of a notification procedure by regional inspectorates of state architecture and construction control for construction objects and issuing permits for the implementation of construction and installation works (conducting inspection functions during the construction period by concluding a contract with entrepreneurial entities submitting necessary documents) before mandatory state inspection of construction objects;
• optimization of preparatory processes and deadlines related to obtaining construction permits, agreement and preparation of materials for selecting and allocating land plots, and simplification of procedures;
• assignment to architecture and construction regional departments the task of obtaining technical conditions for connection to engineering and communication networks, developing and handing over ART (Parts I and II) to project organizations, and agreeing on changes to the external appearance (facade) of buildings and structures and the master plan of the object. | Amendments and additions to legislative acts | Deadline for submission to the Cabinet of Ministers — June 2015 | "State Committee for Architecture and Construction" Committee, "Davergeodezkadaster" Committee, State Committee for Competition, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Justice, Chamber of Commerce and Industry | | 23. | Simplification of the mechanism for entrepreneurial entities to use engineering and communication networks by introducing a connection mechanism on a "ready-to-use" basis through the implementation of all processes from obtaining technical conditions from regional operating enterprises to connection to engineering and communication networks. | Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan | Deadline for submission to the Cabinet of Ministers — June 2015 | Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Justice, "Uzkommunxizmat" Agency, "Uzbekenergo" JSC, "Uzdevenergonazorat" DI, Ministry of Finance, SCS, Chamber of Commerce and Industry | | 24. | Establishment of such a procedure according to which the issuance of electronic digital signature certificates ensuring free use of all types of services provided by state and economic management bodies, local state authority bodies, and commercial banks is carried out by the Single Center of the State Tax Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan for registering electronic digital signature keys. | Amendments and additions to legislative acts | Deadline for submission to the Cabinet of Ministers — June 2015 | SCS, Ministry of Information Technologies, Central Bank, Chamber of Commerce and Industry | | 25. | | | | |

Simplification of the procedure for state procurement of the most essential goods (works, services) from business entities through electronic auctions via the special information portal of the Uzbekistan Republic Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange.

Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers Deadline for submission to the Cabinet of Ministers — June 2015 Ministry of Finance, State Committee for Competition, Ministry of Economy, UZCTRE, Chamber of Commerce and Industry

26. Acceleration of the implementation of projects for the transition to electronic form of processes related to the conduct of business activities within the framework of the "Electronic Government" system by the end of 2015:

• formation of databases of information on physical and legal persons taking into account the integration of databases of all registered and supervising state bodies and credit institutions;
• transition to interactive form of procedures for granting permits for land plots and construction, state registration of rights to real estate, and connection to engineering and communication networks;
• creation and integration into a single platform of the complex of information systems "Tax", "Customs", "License", "Utilities" to ensure the possibility of passing through all procedures for providing state services and making payments for services in electronic form according to the "single window" principle;
• introduction of a single electronic reporting system that allows forming statistics, tax, financial and other reports for business entities using the automated system for processing information on the Unified Interactive State Services Portal of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Resolution of the Republican Commission on Coordination of the Implementation of the Comprehensive Program for the Development of the National Information and Communication System of the Republic of Uzbekistan for 2013–2020 Approval — June 2015 Completion of implementation — by the end of 2015 Ministry of Information Technologies, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Justice, State Statistics Committee, SCC, SCB, Committee "Davergeodezkadr", Agency "Uzkommunxizmat"

27. Establishment of the procedure for conducting the state registration and accounting of business entities and their registration on the Unified Interactive State Services Portal of the Republic of Uzbekistan through an integrated automated system for state registration and accounting of business entities on the Internet network around the clock. Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Q2 2015 Implementation of the mechanism — from April 1, 2016 Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Information Technologies, Chamber of Commerce and Industry, interested ministries and departments

28. Improvement of the procedures for providing state services to business entities, including strengthening public control through the monthly publication in mass media of materials on the implementation of adopted norms on passing through permitting procedures. Publication of materials Monthly Chamber of Commerce and Industry, ministries and departments, MTRC, UzMAA

IV. CREATION OF NECESSARY CONDITIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF PRIVATE PROPERTY AND PRIVATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP, INCREASE IN CREDITING VOLUMES AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

29. Increasing the level of participation of business entities in commodity markets through:

• increasing the volume of realization of high-liquidity products by entrepreneurs through open exchange auctions;
• expanding the system of conducting corporate and state purchases through open electronic auctions.

Complex measures 2015-2016 UZCTRE, State Committee for Competition, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Finance

30. Expansion of the volume of credits allocated by commercial banks to subjects of small and private entrepreneurship, including for investment purposes (modernization and technological renewal of production, organization of modern high-tech innovative production), by 2.5 times in 2015–2019. Resolutions of Bank Councils and Credit Committees 2015–2019 Commercial banks, Central Bank

31. Granting the right to private entrepreneurs to hire from one to three workers without forming a legal entity, depending on the type of activity. Provision of amendments to the Tax Code and the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On Guarantees of Freedom of Entrepreneurial Activity"; Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers Deadline for submission to the Cabinet of Ministers — June 2015 SCC, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Justice, Chamber of Commerce and Industry

32. Establish such a procedure according to which:

• the annual expenses of economic societies with a state share in the charter capital of more than 50 percent and state enterprises for patronage and other gratuitous assistance should not exceed 10 percent of the net profit received in the previous year, and these expenses are implemented when the indicators of the part of the organization's business plan related to the net profit of the previous reporting period are fulfilled;
• persons who received patronage charity and other assistance are obliged to disclose this information on the mass media and the official websites of the organization (if available) and keep separate accounting of them.

Amendments and additions to legislative acts and charters Q3 2015 State Committee for Competition, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Finance

33. Conducting surveys based on representative sampling of business entities in each region, including in the Republic of Karakalpakstan, regions, and Tashkent city, to assess the business environment in the Republic of Uzbekistan, and submitting survey results to the Ministry of Economy. Conducting surveys Quarterly State Committee for Competition, Institute of Forecasting and Macroeconomic Research, Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Ministry of Economy

Note. The types of normative legal acts may be reviewed or combined into a single document depending on the sphere and subject of relevant legal relations.

Appendix unofficial translation. (Collected Laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2015, No. 20, Article 251; 2017, No. 18, Article 310, No. 22, Article 411, No. 37, Article 980; National Database of Legislative Information, 07/30/2018, No. 06/18/5490/1584; 12/14/2019, No. 06/19/5894/4161; 02/01/2020, No. 06/20/5930/0105; , 04/30/2021, No. 06/21/6218/0398; 07/17/2021, No. 06/21/6263/0685, 12/30/2021, No. 06/21/45/1228; 03/18/2022, No. 06/22/89/0227; 02/02/2023, No. 06/23/16/0067)