Article 12. Requirements for a mediator

A natural person who has higher education, has successfully completed a special training course under the mediator training program approved by the ministry of justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan, has passed the qualification examination, and has been included in the register of mediators may engage in mediation activities in the Republic of Uzbekistan. Persons who have the status of an advocate or a notary in the Republic of Uzbekistan shall not be required to pass the qualification examination.

The following persons may not be mediators:

a person who is in state service, except for a person engaged in pedagogical, scientific, creative, or notarial activities;

a person for whom there is a court decision that has entered into legal force on their being found to have limited legal capacity or to be legally incapable;

a person whose conviction has not been canceled or whose criminal record has not been expunged.

The activity of a mediator shall not be considered entrepreneurial activity.