On the Program of Measures for Further Development of the Republic's Pharmaceutical Industry in 2016-2020

Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan

On the Program of Measures for Further Development of the Republic's Pharmaceutical Industry in 2016-2020

In order to ensure rapid and sustainable development of the Republic's pharmaceutical industry, fill the domestic market with domestically produced quality and safe medicinal products, expand the local raw material base and increase production of import-substituting medicinal products, and for this purpose widely attract foreign investment:

1. Tasks for the production of high value-added finished pharmaceutical products based on plant, mineral, chemical and biological raw materials, popular in external markets, for 2016 — 2020 shall be established in accordance with Appendix 1*.

Personal responsibility shall be imposed on the heads of Uzpharmsanoat JSC, the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, regional and Tashkent city Khokimiyats, joint-stock companies and enterprises — responsible executors for ensuring the qualitative and full-scale fulfillment within the established deadlines of the tasks provided for in Appendix 1 for the production of high value-added finished pharmaceutical products based on plant, mineral, chemical and biological raw materials, popular in external markets.

2. The list of investment projects for the production of high value-added finished pharmaceutical products based on plant, mineral, chemical and biological raw materials, intended for export, for 2016 — 2020 shall be approved in accordance with Appendix 2*.

• Appendices 1-2 are not provided.

3. The Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Uzbekistan, together with Uzpharmsanoat JSC, the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, regional and Tashkent city Khokimiyats and other interested departments and organizations, shall within one month submit to the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan for approval the sectoral schedules for the implementation of the investment projects specified in Appendix 2 to this Resolution, while providing for specific deadlines for the development and examination of project documents, selection of technologies for construction and installation works that meet modern technological requirements, and commissioning of capacities within the established deadlines.

(Clause 4 lost force by virtue of Resolution No. PQ-2998 of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated May 24, 2017 — Collection of Laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2017, No. 22, Article 419)

5. The Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, Investments and Trade, Uzpharmsanoat JSC, the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, regional and Tashkent city Khokimiyats together with other joint-stock companies and enterprises — responsible executors of the investment projects included in Appendix 2 shall within one month develop and ensure the implementation of a complex of measures to widely attract foreign companies possessing modern technologies and guaranteeing the output of manufactured products to external markets to implement investment projects.

7. The Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Ministry of Finance, the State Committee on Investments shall annually ensure that the investment projects specified in Appendix 2 to this Resolution are included in the Investment Program of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the established manner with the volume and sources of financing identified.

(Clause 7 edited by Decree No. PF-5158 of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated August 17, 2017)

8. Until January 1, 2021:

organizations specialized in the production of medicinal products, where the share of funds received from the production of these goods accounts for at least 60 percent based on the results of the reporting period, shall be exempt from profit tax and property tax, unified tax payment for micro firms and small enterprises, mandatory allocations to the Road Fund;

technological equipment, components and spare parts not produced in the Republic, imported according to lists approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan within the framework of the implementation of investment projects specified in Appendix 2 to this Resolution, shall be exempt from customs payments (except for fees for customs clearance).

(Clause 9 lost force by virtue of Decree No. PF-5893 of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated December 12, 2019 — National Database of Legal Documents, 13.12.2019, No. 06/19/5893/4150)

10. Control over the execution of this Resolution shall be assigned to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan A. Ikramov.

Acting President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Sh. MIRZIYAYEV

Tashkent city,
September 16, 2016,
No. PQ-2595

(Collection of Laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2016, No. 51, Article 581; 2017, No. 22, Article 419; National Database of Legal Documents, 13.12.2019, No. 06/19/5893/4150)