On additional measures for further development of competitive environment and reduction of state participation the economy (UP-6019-son)

06.07.2020

decree

of the president of the republic of uzbekistan

In order create an effective competitive environment through a phased reduction of the monopoly in the commodity and financial markets, the country is implementing the measures aimed at reducing state involvement in the economy, the rejection of excessive price regulation and reducing the influence of the state on the economy.

At the same time, there are urgent tasks to further reduce the negative impact of the monopoly of business entities with the participation of the state on the competitiveness of the economy, increase the efficiency of the system of granting benefits and preferences, as well as reduce the regulatory burden on business entities.

In order to develop competition in commodity and financial markets, create equal conditions for the activities of business entities, ensure openness and further improve public procurement procedures, as well as in accordance with the State Program for the implementation of the Action Strategy for five priority areas of development of the Republic of Uzbekistan in 2017-2021 in the “Year of Development of Science, Education and the Digital Economy”, I hereby decree:

1. To establish that:

a) The Committee for Competition Promotion and Consumer Protection of the Republic of Uzbekistan (hereinafter referred to as the "Committee") shall be accountable for its activities to the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

b) The Committee on an ongoing basis shall submit information directly to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the implementation of the following tasks:

exercising state control over the effectiveness of state aid provided in the form of benefits, preferences and exclusive rights to conduct activities, as well as making proposals for their cancellation upon a negative impact on competitive environment;

implementation, jointly with the Ministry of Finance, of state control over the observance of legislation on public procurement, as well as procurement of economic companies and enterprises of strategic importance, for which a separate procedure shall be established;

submitting proposals for the cancellation of decisions of state bodies that violate the requirements of competition legislation and the application of measures against their officials;

identification and suppression of “cartel” agreements and collusions in cooperation with law enforcement agencies;

control over the creation of economic entities with the participation of the state;

c) The Committee shall:

interact with the Secretariat on macroeconomic analysis, structural reforms, financial and banking system, management of state assets, development of competition, support of entrepreneurship and poverty reduction of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan while ensuring the coherence of measures and policies in the field of competition and countering monopoly, implementation of structural reforms related to the formation of a free and competitive market, as well as competitive conditions in the implementation of public procurement procedures, the sale of public assets;

jointly with the Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction, carry out mutually coordinated actions to improve the competitive environment in the economy and regions of the country, to identify strategic priority areas and tasks in the field of competition, including the implementation of institutional reforms.

2. The following procedure shall be established, in accordance with which:

a) starting from October 1, 2020: improving and developing the competitive environment shall be one of the main tasks of state administration bodies designated as authorized in specific sectors and spheres, and the implementation of these tasks shall be assigned to the head and their first deputy;

the establishment (reorganization) of economic entities with state participation, as well as their affiliated persons and state institutions authorized to carry out economic activities, shall be carried out after obtaining the prior consent of the antimonopoly body, with the exception of those established for the purposes of strengthening defense capability and ensuring national security;

an economic entity that has a conflict of interest with a state procurer, a business entity or enterprise of strategic importance, may not be a participant in public procurement, selection of best proposals, or direct negotiations, except for public procurement carried out to ensure the safety of persons under state protection, to ensure defense capability, security, and maintain internal order in the Republic of Uzbekistan, as well as public procurement related to state secrets;

a state procurer, a business entity or enterprise of strategic importance is obliged to post information about its affiliated persons on the special information portal for public procurement before holding tenders and competitive bidding, selection of best proposals, and direct negotiations;

b) the following shall be prohibited:

the establishment of a state-participated enterprise and its affiliated persons in sectors where competition is developed and where five or more private entrepreneurship entities have been operating in the commodity or financial market;

the establishment of enterprises with the participation of republic executive power bodies, local state power bodies, including state institutions authorized to license certain types of activities, issue permits, accept notifications via a special electronic system, register or accredit, as well as state target funds, in sectors where these bodies and organizations are granted powers to license certain types of activities, issue permits, accept notifications via a special electronic system, or perform registration or accreditation;

the establishment, by a state-participated enterprise that is a sole supplier, has been granted such a right, or holds a dominant position, of affiliated persons whose activities depend on the use of the founderʼs goods (resources) or network infrastructure and who engage in activities that compete with private entrepreneurship entities, except for cases where such affiliated persons are established as a result of splitting them up while providing them with conditions of activity equal to those of competitors.

c) economic entities with the participation of the state, which are a single supplier or endowed with this right or occupying a dominant (monopoly) position, shall be prohibited from creating affiliated entities whose activities depend on the use of goods (resources) or the network infrastructure of the founder, and which compete with private entrepreneurship entities, with the exception of cases of creation of those affiliated entities as a result of their separation, ensuring equal conditions of activity with competitors;

d) creation (reorganization) of economic entities with the participation of the state and entities affiliated with them, as well as state institutions authorized to carry out economic activities, shall be carried out after obtaining the preliminary consent of the antimonopoly body, with the exception of their creation in order to ensure defense capability and national security;

e) an economic entity that has a conflict of interest with a state customer, a business entity and an enterprise of strategic importance cannot participate in public procurement or in the selection of the best offers or direct negotiations, with the exception of public procurement to ensure the security of persons subject to state protection, defense capability, security and maintaining internal order in the Republic of Uzbekistan, as well as those related to state secrets;

f) a state customer, a business company and an enterprise of strategic importance, prior to organizing tenders and competitive bids, selecting the best offers, as well as direct negotiations, shall be obliged to post information about persons affiliated with them on a special information portal for public procurement.

3. To establish that all normative legal acts stipulating the following shall be adopted in accordance with the established procedure only if there is an opinion from the Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction and the Ministry of Justice on the assessment of the regulatory impact, as well as the Committee - based on the results of the assessment of the impact on the competitive environment:

introduction of new restrictions and new types of permission procedures, licenses for business entities or the extension of existing restrictions, permission procedures and licensed activities to a wider range of market participants;

introduction of additional requirements and conditions for obtaining permits or licenses;

increase of requirements for the minimum size of the authorized capital of legal entities;

restriction (reduction) of the established rights of economic entities or the introduction of additional obligations or additional costs for them;

granting any type of state support to economic entities, including privileges, guarantees, and preferences, as well as the provision of new rights, including exclusive rights.

To the Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction, together with the Committee, within a month, to develop and submit for approval to the Cabinet of Ministers the Regulations on the Assessment of the Regulatory Impact of Draft Normative Legal Acts.

4. To approve:

The Strategy for the Development of Competition in the Commodity and Financial Markets in 2020 - 2024 in accordance with Appendix No. 1;

“Roadmap” for the implementation of the Strategy for the Development of Competition in Commodity and Financial Markets in 2020 - 2024 in accordance with Appendix No. 2;

A plan of measures for conducting a full-fledge inventory of normative legal acts and normative acts in the field of technical regulation which directly affect entrepreneurial activity, in accordance with Appendix No. 3;

The list of ministries and agencies responsible for developing competition development programs in the sectors assigned to them for regulation for the period up to 2024 shall be approved in accordance with Annex 4.

5. To establish the procedure according to which from January 1, 2021:

a) executors of public procurement, as well as procurement of business entities and enterprises of strategic importance shall be obliged:

within two days from the day of their official announcement as winners following the results of tenders and competitive bids, selection of the best offers, as well as the results of direct negotiations, to disclose information about their ultimate profit gainers (beneficiaries) who have effective control through direct or indirect ownership of 25 percent or more of their shares (stakes) by posting relevant information on a special information portal for public procurement;

on an ongoing basis to post on their websites and a special information portal information about the status of fulfillment of obligations under contracts concluded as a result of tenders and competitive bids, the procedure for selecting the best offers, as well as direct negotiations;

6. To the Committee, together with the Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction, interested ministries and departments, by November 1, 2020:

based on the study of international experience, develop a single draft law by combining the laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On Competition” and “On Natural Monopolies”, which shall provide for cardinal improvement of the mechanism for the formation of a competitive environment;

make, in the prescribed manner, amendments and additions to the existing acts of legislation, providing for the provision of access for the private sector and its development in those monopoly spheres in which there is an opportunity to create a free competitive environment.

7. At the expense of reducing 28 staffing positions in the state tax service:

increase the staffing of the Department for improving the business environment and the formation of a modern economy in the structure of the Central office of the Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction of the Republic of Uzbekistan by 8 staffing positions, entrusting it with the tasks of assessing the regulatory impact of draft acts of legislation;

establish in the structure of the Committee a Department for monitoring the provision of state aid and assessing its effectiveness, and provide additional 20 staff units to it and to the Department for control over tenders.

8. To the ministries and departments specified in Appendix No. 4 to this Decree, together with the Committee and the Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction of the Republic of Uzbekistan, by February 1, 2020, to develop and, in accordance with the established procedure, submit for approval to the Cabinet of Ministers programs for the development of competition in industries, the regulation of which is assigned to them.

9. To the Committee:

a) to submit within a month to the Cabinet of Ministers a draft resolution on the radical improvement of state policy in the field of competition and consumer protection;

b) by October 1, 2020, submit a proposal to establish in the laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On Competition" and "On Public Procurement" of a ban for participation in competition and tendering, selection of the best proposals and direct negotiations for persons who have a conflict of interests with state customers, business entities and enterprises of strategic importance, as well as executors of public procurement and procurement of business entities and enterprises of strategic importance who did not disclose information or provided inaccurate information about their ultimate beneficiaries, and liability for such violations of the law;

c) together with the Ministry of Finance, the Agency for State Assets Management, the Agency for the Development of the Capital Market, the Agency for Public Services under the Ministry of Justice, interested ministries and departments, to develop:

by October 1, 2020, a Regulation on the procedure for obtaining preliminary consent for the creation (reorganization) of economic entities with the participation of the state, persons affiliated with them, as well as state institutions authorized to carry out economic activities;

by October 15, 2020, the Regulation on the mandatory disclosure by state customers, business entities and enterprises of strategic importance of information about their affiliates, as well as by participants in procurement procedures of information about their ultimate beneficiaries in the procurement process;

d) jointly with the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction, by November 1, 2020, to submit for approval to the Cabinet of Ministers the procedure for systemic monitoring and assessment of the effectiveness of the granted amounts of benefits, the expected results and obligations assumed, the level of impact on socio-economic development and competitive environment in the Republic of Uzbekistan;

e) together with the Ministry of Finance, by January 1, 2021, to ensure the transfer of procurement by business entities and enterprises of strategic importance by selecting the best proposals completely into electronic form online via the Internet;

f) jointly with the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Trade and the Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction by attracting technical assistance from international financial institutions, including the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development:

to develop a methodology for diagnosing the competitive environment in all sectors of the country's economy based on the Product Market Regulation-PMR of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and introduce new effective instruments of antimonopoly regulation based on foreign practice;

to attract leading international experts to develop the draft law "On Competition" in the new edition and other normative legal acts and methodological manuals;

establish a systematic dialogue with the antimonopoly authorities of developed countries, including the International Competition Network, to discuss topical issues of competition protection;

implement measures to analyze monopolized industries and develop proposals for the development of competition in them, as well as assistance in increasing the institutional capacity of the Committee;

g) jointly with the Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction, the Ministry for the Development of Information Technologies and Communications, the Ministry of Finance, the State Committee on Statistics, the State Assets Management Agency, the Capital Market Development Agency, the Public Services Agency under the Ministry of Justice, the State Tax Committee, as well as other interested ministries and departments, by March 1, 2021, to introduce an electronic system that provides the possibility of using it by integrating with existing databases, which serves to determine online the presence of private entrepreneurship entities in the commodity and financial markets, as well as affiliates, participating in the implementation of public procurement.

10. To recommend the National Information Agency of Uzbekistan and the National Television and Radio Company of Uzbekistan to organize speeches and thematic programs in the media to broadly cover the goals and objectives of this Decree.

11. To the Committee, together with interested ministries and departments, within two months, to submit to the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan proposals on amendments and additions to the legislation arising from this Decree.

12. To entrust control over the implementation of this Decree to the Head of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Uzbekistan Z.Sh. Nizomiddinov.

President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Sh. Mirziyoyev

Tashkent,

July 6, 2020,

No. UP-6019

ANNEX No. 1 to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated July 6, 2020 No. UP-6019

STRATEGY

for the development of competition in commodity and financial markets in 2020 - 2024

Chapter 1. Conditions and Need for Adoption of Strategy

Currently, the creation of an effective competitive environment and the gradual reduction of monopoly on the market of goods and services remain a priority area for solving problems of further development and liberalization of the economy.

To this end, measures are being taken to reduce the participation of the state in the country's economy and the transition to market mechanisms is being carried out.

In recent years, in the field of entrepreneurial activity, the tax burden has been reduced and 86 separate licensed types of activities and permission procedures have been canceled, including by combining 38 types into 16, reducing the processing time for 25 types and centralizing the issuance of 14 licenses and permits.

There has been a consistent development of the business sector; in the last three years alone, the number of operating business entities has increased by 25 percent.

The measures taken ensured the development of competition in many markets for food products (soft drinks, juices, bread, bakery products, meat and dairy products, confectionery and others) and certain markets for non-food products (furniture, carpets and rugs, textile products and others) produced by domestic producers. The monopoly of large companies has been eliminated in the market for building materials, cable and wire products, and money transfer services.

The exchange mechanism created made it possible to equally provide market participants with highly liquid and monopoly types of raw materials and materials. Currently, 65 percent of the turnover of the Uzbek Republican Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange falls on monopoly products.

As a result of the reforms carried out in recent years, the number of monopoly enterprises has more than halved.

At the same time, the following systemic problems remain unresolved, negatively affecting the competitive environment in the country's economy:

excessive state participation in the economy;

over-regulation of prices;

ineffective system of benefits and preferences;

high regulatory burden on business entities and lack of interest of sectoral regulatory bodies in the development of competition;

abuse of natural monopoly position;

imperfection of legal mechanisms to combat anti-competitive manifestations.

§ 1. Excessive Participation of the State in the Economy

Currently, economic entities with the participation of the state dominate the commodity and financial markets, for example, 80 percent of monopoly organizations have a state share or are controlled by economic entities with a state share.

In connection with the unsettledness in the legislation of the issue of the ownership of economic entities by the state and the implementation of control by the state, difficulties remain in determining the degree of participation of the state in the economy.

Economic entities with the participation of the state create structures under their control in the form of state unitary enterprises (SUEs) and subsidiaries that negatively affect competition. Currently, the number of such enterprises is more than 4,300, including in the form of joint-stock companies and limited liability companies - more than 1,300, in the form of state unitary enterprises - more than 1,800 and their affiliates - more than 1,100.

Underdeveloped market environment and excessive participation of the state in the economy leads to inefficiency in the activities of individual economic entities with the participation of the state, which is compensated by state support in the form of cross subsidies, tax and customs benefits, preferences and concessional loans.

There is a high concentration of government participation and powers in financial and capital markets (stock exchanges, central depository, banks), which gives rise to a conflict of interests and hinders the development of market mechanisms.

For example, a monopoly of the National Bank for Foreign Economic Activity of the Republic of Uzbekistan JSC, which belongs to the state, has been established for servicing settlements on transactions with securities on the stock exchange. Overall, 83 percent of the banking sector operates with government participation.

§ 2. Excessive Price Regulation

To date, state regulation of prices (declaring, approving, setting fixed or cap prices (tariffs), a regulating coefficient, setting margins and a marginal level of profitability and other methods of price regulation) is carried out in relation to more than 30 goods and services.

At the same time, despite the fact that in the field of natural monopolies tariffs are regulated for 10 types of goods (works, services), in fact, 137 different price levels are applied, set based on the categories of consumers and suppliers, as well as the territorial principle.

The cost-based pricing method used by monopoly enterprises and natural monopoly entities consists of a scheme for adding a minimum profit to costs, which leads to an unreasonable increase in costs, does not stimulate a decrease in production costs, and the increase in costs is in turn compensated by direct price increases and tariffs for consumers.

§ 3. Ineffectiveness of the Provision of Benefits and Preferences

The absence of instruments for antimonopoly regulation of the provision of state aid leads to inefficiency of the benefits and preferences provided and has a negative impact on the competitive environment.

In recent years, more than 40 thousand business entities, namely 12 percent of the total number of operating business entities, have been provided with tax incentives. This situation creates unequal conditions in the commodity and financial markets.

§ 4. High Regulatory Burden on Business Entities and the Lack of Interest of Sectoral Regulatory Bodies in the Development of Competition in their Industry

The activities of ministries and departments to promote competition in the industries regulated by them remain extremely ineffective. Only 11 out of 38 state bodies operating in the economic sphere are directly entrusted with the functions of developing a competitive environment in their industry.

In addition, a full-fledged system for assessing the regulatory impact and impact on the competitive environment of acts of legislation has not been introduced.

As a result, a difficult and complex licensing system remains, which provides for the licensing of more than 266 types of activities and more than 137 types of licensing procedures under the current 61 licenses, as well as in more than 6 thousand normative legal acts and 40 thousand documents of technical regulation that directly affect business, artificial barriers limiting the access of business entities to markets remain.

Despite the consolidation in the legislation of all the basic guarantees of freedom to carry out entrepreneurial and investment activities, according to the World Bank, in recent years in Uzbekistan, the net inflow of foreign direct investment remains low and amounts to 0.5-1.2 percent in relation to GDP, in the Index of Economic Freedom the country ranks 114th out of 180 countries, the indicator of the Freedom of Investment Indicator is 20 out of 100.

§ 5. Abuse of the Natural Monopoly Position

The presence of markets with a limited competitive environment, primarily the spheres of natural monopolies, affects interconnected markets, in in most cases by monopolizing them.

Despite the prohibition of the use by natural monopoly entities of their position to restrict competition in the markets for goods (works, services) that are not classified as natural monopolies, established in the legislation on natural monopolies, in practice, markets that have the ability to ensure interconnected competition, for example, in the field of railway transport - when selling railway tickets, repairing freight cars, serving restaurant cars, cleaning wagons and others, are currently monopolized.

§ 6. Imperfection of Legal Mechanisms to Combat Anti-Competitive Manifestations

There are no effective mechanisms to eliminate barriers to entry into markets, as well as to combat the monopoly of large enterprises and cartel agreements, to prevent unfair competition, and the independence of the antimonopoly authority in decision-making is practically limited.

The system of preventive and proactive measures to prevent the restriction of competition has not been formed, the mechanism for analysis and effective antimonopoly control over merger and acquisition of large enterprises has not been established, the legal mechanisms for restraining competition in the bidding process remain ineffective, and key performance indicators of the antimonopoly authority have not been developed.

Chapter 2. Purpose and Objectives of the Strategy

2.1. The main goal of the Strategy shall be to stimulate economic growth and innovation by creating efficient markets and a healthy competitive environment, increasing investment inflows and creating new jobs.

2.2. The main objectives of the Strategy shall be:

transformation of the system of protection and development of competition;

creating efficient markets with transparency and an equal access conditions to them ;

reducing the administrative burden and costs of business entities and the level of state participation in the economy, as well as streamlining the provision of state aid;

creation of a system of rational state regulation of prices (tariffs);

elimination of barriers for the transition of the spheres of natural monopolies to a market with a competitive environment;

introduction of tools to prevent restriction of competition;

strengthening of legal measures for violation of the requirements of competition legislation, primarily in relation to "cartel" agreements and collusion;

introduction of effective instruments for antimonopoly regulation of the digital economy;

ensuring the transparency and efficiency of the antimonopoly body's activities, fostering a culture of competition in society and an atmosphere of intolerance towards any manifestations of anti-competitive actions;

Systematically enhance the professional capacity of the staff of the Committee for Competition Promotion and Consumer Protection.

Chapter 3. Main Measures for the Implementation of the Strategy

3.1. Transformation of the system of protection and development of competition by:

introducing a model of "smart" antimonopoly regulation, which provides for a transition to the analysis of the behavior of market participants, creation of a system for stimulating fair competition, introduction of preventive mechanisms for early warning of violation (prevention) of legal requirements through digitalization of processes;

introduction of tools for the analysis of commodity and financial markets based on the principles of behavioral economics;

conducting regular diagnostics of the state of competition in the commodity and financial markets based on the Global Competitiveness Index of the World Economic Forum and the methodology of the Commodity Markets Regulation Index of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development;

abolishing the maintenance of the State Register of Monopoly Enterprises and the State Register of Natural Monopoly Entities in order to reduce the administrative burden on market participants;

revising the criteria for determining a dominant position based on market share and moving to assessing the anticompetitive behavior of market participants in determining market dominance;

creating a better mechanism for regulating market concentration (mergers and acquisitions) through digitalization of processes and improving the quality of analysis of the impact on competition;

introducing a risk-based approach, which provides for the categorization of economic entities based on industries and the integrity of the conduct of activities in the implementation of state antimonopoly supervision;

3.2. Creation of efficiently functioning markets, ensuring transparency and equal conditions of access to them, including:

development of programs for the development of competition, providing for an increase in the efficiency of the market for basic goods and financial markets by increasing the number of participants and simplifying access to these markets;

strengthening the mechanism for identifying violations of competition legislations during tenders and ensuring equal conditions for the participation of private entrepreneurs, including small businesses, in the process of public procurement;

ensuring competition in the procurement process of economic companies and enterprises of strategic importance by applying antimonopoly requirements to them;

improving the mechanism of exchange trading by expanding the range of goods put up for exchange trading, and ensuring free access to them for business entities;

development of a mechanism for antimonopoly influence to prevent price manipulations in the course of exchange trading during a period of high demand;

implementation of antimonopoly requirements for retail and wholesale trade.

3.3. Reducing the administrative burden, costs of business entities and the degree of state participation in the economy, as well as regulating the provision of state aid by:

assessing the impact on competition of draft normative legal acts;

a comprehensive study of normative legal acts and normative documents in the field of technical regulation using the "guillotine" method from the point of view of their compliance with antimonopoly legislation;

revision of the current types of licenses and other permissive documents with their subsequent reduction by at least two times;

introduction of a mechanism for determining the goals of state participation in the economy and the transition to the “yellow pages” principle, which would limit the creation of state-owned enterprises in the event that the private sector is present on the market;

introduction of a mechanism for obtaining the consent of the antimonopoly authority when creating enterprises with state participation in order to prevent negative impact on the competitive environment;

preparation of programs to involve the private sector in the performance of certain state and economic functions of state bodies;

reducing the number of state unitary enterprises established by state bodies, as well as those affiliated with large economic associations with state participation and subjects of natural monopolies that negatively affect competition;

introduction of the concept of “state aid” into competition legislation and a mechanism for obtaining the preliminary consent of the antimonopoly authority when granting benefits and preferences;

introducing a register of benefits and preferences and developing criteria for assessing their effectiveness;

analysis of the effectiveness of benefits and preferences provided by the state;

introduction of alternative mechanisms of state regulation, such as a self-regulation mechanism.

3.4. Creation of a system of rational state regulation of prices (tariffs) using highly effective methods of price formation that generate the effect of stimulating competition by:

a full transition to market mechanisms in the formation of prices (tariffs) in commodity and financial markets, based on economic feasibility, consumer interests, cost reduction, encouraging cost reduction and effective return on capital of business entities;

introduction of progressive market price formation mechanisms in the activities of natural monopoly entities (the method of economically justified return on invested capital (Regulatory Asset Base), comparative analysis, etc.), creating the effect of stimulating competition;

development of a new model for monitoring the application of regulated prices, which provides for the use of the method of “comparative values” of prices in comparable and interconnected markets to determine the reasonableness of the costs of regulated economic entities.

3.5. Elimination of barriers to the transition of the spheres of natural monopolies to the state of a competitive market by:

studying the activities and functioning of subjects of natural monopolies, including from the point of view of the possibility of creating competitive conditions in interconnected markets;

ensuring transparency of the activities of natural monopoly entities and access of economic entities to their infrastructure without discrimination;

transferring the functions of generating and selling electricity to the private sector and stage-by-stage formation of the wholesale electricity market;

development of a program for the development of competition in the rail and air transport market.

3.6. Implementation of tools for early warning (prevention) of violations of the requirements of competition legislation, including antimonopoly compliance - a system of internal regulations in government bodies and business entities to ensure compliance with competition legislation, identify and prevent the risks of violation.

3.7. Strengthening measures to suppress cartel agreements and collusions and stimulate fair competition by:

developing a new mechanism for constant monitoring of prices for socially significant and monopoly types of goods and services;

concluding agreements with law enforcement agencies to combat cartel agreements and collusion;

enhancing public engagement by increasing the effectiveness of the mitigation program to identify cartel agreements;

revision of measures of influence and penalties for violation of competition legislation, including in relation to "cartel" agreements and collusion;

establishing, in certain cases, the lower limit of antimonopoly interference in order to effectively suppress violations of competition legislation;

amendments to the legislation on strengthening measures of responsibility in cases of unfair competition;

maintaining a register of dishonest business entities violating intellectual property rights;

introduce new mechanisms for the exchange of information with the Ministry of Justice using information technologies;

establish an expert commission under the antimonopoly body for assessing the degree of similarity of products, composed of lawyers, patent attorneys, and specialists from the Ministry of Justice.

3.8. Implementation of effective instruments for antimonopoly regulation of the digital economy by:

introducing the concept of “digital markets” into competition legislation, defining their geographical and commodity boundaries and methods of regulation;

introduction of criteria for determining a dominant position in digital markets;

implementing antimonopoly rules for e-commerce trading;

creating a digital platform based on the RegTech concept (regulatory technologies that enable digital market participants to effectively apply competition legislation requirements) for the purpose of antimonopoly regulation;

creation of a special legal regime - “regulatory sandbox”, which allows testing innovations in digital markets without unnecessary regulatory documentation.

3.9. Ensuring transparency and efficiency in the activities of the antimonopoly body, creating a culture of competition in society and an atmosphere of intolerance towards any manifestations of anti-competitive actions by:

further developing the discussion platform (platform) “Competition 4.0.” in order to strengthen relationships with public organizations, expert and business communities and their wide involvement in the work to ensure a healthy competitive environment;

creation of the Expert Council for the Promotion of Competition;

formation of non-governmental organizations to promote the development of competition;

Implement Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the performance of the Committee for Competition Promotion and Consumer Protection, using indicators of the development of the competitive environment in commodity and financial markets, in accordance with the methodology of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD);

introduce innovative developments and information technologies into the activities of the Committee for Competition Promotion and Consumer Protection in order to expedite the identification of cases of restriction of competition and the application of enforcement measures;

organizing training courses for business entities on the formation of market skills and increasing knowledge of competition legislation.

3.10. Systematically enhance the professional capacity of the staff of the Committee for Competition Promotion and Consumer Protection, including:

introduction of special areas for training personnel in the field of antimonopoly regulation and competition legislation in the curricula of higher educational institutions;

to organize training courses for employees of the central office and territorial bodies of the Committee for Development of Competition and Protection of Consumer Rights on the application of legislation on competition.

Chapter 4. Target Performance Indicators of the Strategy to be achieved by 2024

1. Reduction of the number of monopolized product markets by at least 45 percent.

2. Reducing the number of monopoly enterprises by 40 percent.

3. Implementation of an antimonopoly compliance system in at least 80 percent of monopoly enterprises.

4. Reducing the volume of benefits provided in the economic sphere to 10 percent in relation to the GDP indicator.

5. Cancellation of at least 60 percent of normative legal acts providing for the provision of exclusive rights and preferences.

6. Increase in the indicator of the freedom of investment activity in the Index of Economic Freedom from 20 to 80.

7. Participation and consistent improvement of the indicators of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the Global Competitiveness Index.

8. Increase in the number of participants in commodity, financial and digital markets by at least 25 percent.

9. Increase in the number of participants in public procurement by 40 percent.

10. Decrease in the indicator of state participation in the economy to 40 percent in relation to the GDP indicator.

11. Reduction by at least 30 percent of the norms that complicate and negatively affect business and competition, contained in the current normative legal acts and technical regulation documents using the “regulatory guillotine” method.

ANNEX No. 2 to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated July 6, 2020 No. UP-6019

“ROADMAP”

for the implementation of the Strategy for competition development in commodity and financial markets in 2020 - 2024 years

No.Name of measuresImplementation mechanism Implementation time limitsResponsible executorsI. Development of competition and implementation of transformation of the protection system1.Creation of a progressive model of "smart" antimonopoly regulation, providing for the transition from the system of preventing violations of competition legislation to the system of early warning (prevention) of violations of legislation in the field of protection competition.1. Introduction of amendments and additions to the Law "On Competition", providing for:abolishing the maintenance of the register of monopolistic organizations and natural monopoly entities;introduction of the concept of "bargaining power" and the definition of methods for its control;broadening the lower limit of intervention in certain cases to effectively prevent violations of competition legislation.2. In order to prevent violations of competition legislation, expanding the use of the institution of clarifications with the development of special instructions (guidelines).October2020Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov)2.Implementation of flexible tools for analyzing commodity, financial and digital markets, including methods based on the principles of behavioral economics.1. Introduction of amendments and additions to the Law "On Competition", rejection of the indicator of a certain market share when establishing a monopoly position, with a focus on the facts of abuse of a dominant position in the market.October 2020Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov), Ministry of Innovative Development (I. Abdurakhmonov)2. Development of the Procedure for analyzing the behavior of participants in commodity, financial and digital markets.October 20203. Creation of a laboratory of institutional innovations in competition policy in order to introduce behavioral economics approaches that stimulate full compliance by participants in the product and financial markets with competition legislations, including the concept of “soft nudging”.April 20213.Analysis of the state of the competitive environment in the economy.1. Analysis of the state of competition in the commodity markets and development of a “Roadmap based on the indicator “Effectiveness of commodity markets” of the methodology of the Global Competitiveness Index.August 2020Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov), Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction (I. Norkulov)2. Calculation of the commodity market regulation index (PMR) based on the methodology of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.March 20213. Preparation of the annual report on the state of competition.December 20204.Transition from sectoral governance to “market governance”.Increasing the responsibility of state bodies for the development of competition by including in the provisions of state bodies functional obligations for the development of competition within the framework of their own tasks in the sectors for which regulation is assigned.December 2020Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov)5.Implementation of a risk-oriented approach to violations of the requirements of legislative acts in the implementation of state antimonopoly supervision.Development of criteria for classifying the activities of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs engaged in economic activities by risk categories in the implementation of state control over compliance with acts of competition legislation.October 2020Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov)II. Creation of efficiently functioning markets, ensuring transparency and equal conditions of access to them6.Facilitate access to commodity and financial markets for new participants.Development of programs for the development of competition in the main commodity and financial markets, including:in the pharmaceutical market;in construction and production of building materials;in the banking sector;in telecommunication services (Internet, mobile communications);in the production of petroleum products;in the production of chemical and mineral fertilizers;in the production of food products.December 2020 TheAgency for the Development of the Pharmaceutical Industry(S. Kariev), the Ministry of Construction (B. Zakirov), the Central Bank (M. Nurmuratov), the Mininfocom (Sh. Sadikov), the Ministry of Energy (A. Sultanov), Uzkimyosanoat JSC ( J. Mirzamakhmudov), Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction (I. Norkulov)7.Ensuring competitive conditions in commodity and financial markets.Development of antimonopoly requirements and rules in the context of industries and sectors of the economy.January 2021Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov),Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction (I. Norkulov),sectoral regulators - ministries and departments8.Improving antimonopoly regulation in the field of public procurement.1. Introduction to the Law "On Public Procurement" of requirements on limiting the number of representatives of customers and requirements for the affiliation of participants in order to prevent concerted actions in the process of public procurement.2. Approval of the procedure for identifying violations of the requirements of competition legislation in the course of tenders.November 2020Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov), Ministry of Finance (T. Ishmetov)9.Ensuring competition in procurement of business entities and enterprises of strategic importance.Introduction of antimonopoly requirements into the procurement processes of business entities and enterprises of strategic importance.September2020Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov)10.Improving the exchange trading mechanism and expanding the types of goods for listing on exchange trading.1. Approval of the Procedure for monitoring the bidding of highly liquid and monopoly types of goods through digitalization of the process.2. Approval of the Procedure for Adopting Antimonopoly Measures and Preventing Price Manipulations in Exchange Trading in a Period of High Demand.February 2021Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov), Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction (I. Norkulov)11.Ensuring competition in the wholesale and retail trade.Introduce antimonopoly requirements for retail and wholesale trade into competition legislation.May 2021Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov), Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction (I. Norkulov)III. Reducing the administrative burden and costs of business entities, the degree of state participation in the economy, streamlining the provision of state aid12.Reducing the negative impact of normative legal acts on competition.1. Conducting an antimonopoly "comprehensive audit" of the normative and legal framework - clearing from the norms that contradict competition at least 3 thousand normative legal acts and 20 thousand technical regulation documents using the "guillotine" method.September 2020 - March 2021Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov), Ministry of Justice (R. Davletov)2. Assessment of the impact of normative legal acts based on the principles ex-ante and ex-post.2020 - 202313.Introduction of a mechanism to stimulate competition in the creation of state-owned enterprises.1. Introduction of a mechanism for establishing the goal of state participation in the economy and the transition to the principle of "yellow pages", which provides for the restriction of the creation of state-owned enterprises in the presence of private enterprises on the market.2. Introduction of a mechanism for obtaining the consent of the antimonopoly authority when setting up enterprises with the participation of the state.September 2020Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov), Agency for State Assets Management(S. Bekenov)14.Reduction of the number of state unitary enterprises and economic entities controlled by economic entities with state participation.1. Study of the activities of business entities affiliated with state unitary enterprises, large state-owned companies and business entities that have a negative impact on competition in the markets.September 2020Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov), Agency for State Assets Management(S. Bekenov)2. Development of a "Road Map" for transforming state unitary enterprises into other organizational and legal forms and separating them from large business associations as separate entities. October 202015.Reducing the share of the state and large enterprises in the economy by attracting investments.1. Preparation of large state-owned enterprises and joint stock companies for public offering.2. Transition to international standards of corporate governance and financial reporting at state enterprises.3. Increasing the transparency of the activities of state-owned enterprises through the regular publication of financial reports and information, including in foreign languages.2020 - 2024State Assets Management Agency(S. Bekenov), Ministry of Finance (T. Ishmetov), Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction (I. Norkulov), Committee for Development of Competition and Protection of Consumer Rights (Sh. Sharakhmetov)16.Development of a competitive environment and attraction of private sectors into separate areas in which government bodies perform economic functions.Development of a program for transferring certain state functions to the private sector by introducing a system of accreditation and compulsory insurance of market participants in the following areas:technical supervision in construction;certification, calibration of measuring instruments and verification of measuring instruments;performance of cadastral works.January 2021Ministry of Construction (B. Zakirov), Uzbek Agency for Standardization, Metrology and Certification (D. Sattarov), State Committee for Land Geodezcadastre (H. Turakhuzhaev), Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov)17.Increasing the efficiency of state aid.1. Inclusion in competition legislation of a mechanism for obtaining prior consent of the antimonopoly authority when providing state aid in the form of benefits and preferences.2. Development of criteria for the effectiveness of benefits and preferences.3. Formation of a list of economic entities enjoying benefits and preferences.October 2020Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov)18.Analysis of the effectiveness of benefits and preferences.1. Study of the effectiveness of benefits and preferences in the following areas:telecommunications;car manufacturing;electrical industry;agricultural engineering;production of fat and oil products;production of mineral fertilizers.December 2020Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov),Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction (I. Norkulov),Ministry of Finance (T. Ishmetov),State Tax Committee (Sh. Kudbiev),State Customs Committee (M. Azimov)2. Making proposals for the optimization (cancellation) of benefits and preferences provided to certain areas.December202019.Forced separation of large monopolies with the participation of the state, negatively affecting the competitive environment.1. Conducting an analysis of the behavior of operating large monopoly enterprises with the participation of the state and studying the presence of a negative impact on the competitive environment in their actions.2. Submission of proposals on the compulsory division of large monopolies with the participation of the state, negatively affecting the competitive environment, in accordance with the established procedure.March 2021Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov)IV. Creation of a system of rational state regulation of prices (tariffs), namely with the use of highly effective methods of setting tariffs that generate the effect of stimulating competition20.Full transition to market mechanisms for setting prices (tariffs) in competitive commodity and financial markets.Revision of the procedure for state regulation of prices (declaration, approval, establishment of strictly fixed or maximum prices (tariffs), the regulatory coefficient, margins and the maximum level of profitability and other methods of price regulation).December 2020Ministry of Finance (T. Ishmetov), Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov)21.Revision of methods and approaches to the formation of prices of natural monopoly entities.Creation of the effect of stimulating competition between subjects of natural monopolies by introducing progressive market mechanisms for the formation of prices (the method of economically justified return on invested capital (Regulatory Asset Base), the method of comparative analysis and other methods).2021 - 2024Ministry of Finance (T. Ishmetov), Committee for Development of Competition and Protection of Consumer Rights (Sh. Sharakhmetov)22.Improving the mechanism for monitoring the application of regulated prices.Development of a procedure for monitoring the application of regulated prices, providing for the use of the method of "comparative values" of prices in comparable and interconnected markets to determine the reasonableness of the costs of regulated business entities.December 2020Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov)V. Elimination of barriers in the transition of natural monopoly spheres to a competitive market23.Revision of the criteria for classification as natural monopolies and drastic reduction of these spheres.1. Consolidation of the laws "On Competition" and "On Natural Monopolies".October 2020Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov)2. Analysis of the activities and functioning of natural monopoly entities, including based on the possibility of creating competitive conditions in interconnected markets.February 202124.Ensuring transparency of the activities of natural monopoly entities and access to their infrastructure without discrimination.1. Inventory of standard and other contracts of subjects of natural monopolies.2. Strengthening the mechanisms of responsibility for unjustified refusal to connect to the infrastructure of natural monopolies.November 2020Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov)25.Development of competition in the electric power industry.1. Approval of the Program for the phased formation of the wholesale electricity market.2. Approval of the "Roadmap" for the transfer of the functions of electricity generation and distribution to the private sector.April 2021Ministry of Energy (A. Sultanov),Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov)26.Development of competition in the gas supply market.Approval of the Program to ensure competitive access of the private sector to the gas supply market.September 2021Ministry of Energy (A. Sultanov),Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov)27.Development of competition in the field of railway transport.Elaboration of a program for the development of competition in the rail transport market, which provides for:studying the possibility of creating conditions for the development of a private rail transport market by dividing the functions of maintaining the railroad infrastructure and carrying out transportation;adoption of a normative legal act on the basis for regulating the activities of rolling stock operators and their relationship with carriers;development of a methodology of calculation of fare based on combined transport (route using various types of locomotives or locomotive different carriers);ensuring equal conditions for the technological connection of tracks that are not public tracks to public tracks;organization of an "exchange" for the exchange of wagons, creation of the most efficient transportation logistics.March 2021Ministry of Transport (E. Ganiev),Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov)28.Development of competition in the field of air transport.1. Approval of the program for the introduction of the "open skies" regime in all regions of the republic.December 2020Ministry of Transport (E. Ganiev), Antimonopoly Committee (N. Sharipov)2. Approval of a program for providing access to private sector entities to the provision of various services in the air transport market.December 20203. Approval of the program for the creation of national low-cost carriers.January 2021VI. Implementation of preventive early warning (prophylaxis) instruments for violations of the legislation on the protection of competition29.Implementation of antimonopoly compliance at monopoly enterprises and state bodies.1. Development of a "Roadmap" for the implementation of antimonopoly compliance at monopoly enterprises and government agencies;September 2020Committee for Development of Competition and Protection of Consumer Rights (Sh. Sharakhmetov), Agency for State Assets Management (S. Bekenov)2. Implementation of antimonopoly compliance at monopoly enterprises and government agencies.2020 - 202430.Implementation of the mechanism of early warning (prevention) of offenses in the field of competition protection.1. Development of a methodology for the implementation and monitoring of antimonopoly compliance system in government bodies and business entities - a system of internal regulations to ensure compliance with competition legislation requirements, to identify and prevent the risks of offenses.September 2020Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov),Agency for State Assets Management(S. Bekenov)2. Implementation of an antimonopoly compliance system as an experiment in at least 9 enterprises.December2020VII. Strengthening legal measures for violating the requirements of competition legislation, primarily for “cartel” agreements and collusions, and stimulating fair competition31.Increasing the effectiveness of methods of combating "cartel" agreements.Introduction of amendments to the Law on Competition, providing for a change in the size of fines for violation of competition legislations when concluding cartel agreements and collusion.October 2020Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov)32.Improving analytical tools for identifying cartel agreements and collusion.Development of a procedure for monitoring the level of prices for socially significant and monopoly types of goods and services.September 2020Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov),Ministry of Finance (T. Ishmetov)33.Formation in society of an intolerant attitude towards any manifestation of collusion and "cartel" agreements.1. Development of a social campaign against "cartels" with broad involvement of the media and the public.2. Approval of measures to improve the effectiveness of the "mitigation" program in order to identify "cartel" agreements.December 2020Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov), National TV and Radio Company of Uzbekistan (A. Khadzhaev)34.Improving mechanisms for identifying and preventing cases of unfair competition.1. Formation of an expert commission to assess the similarity of products under the antimonopoly authority of lawyers, patent attorneys and experts working in this area.October2020Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov),Agency Intellectual Property (T. Abdusattorov)2. Introduction of a register of dishonest business entities that violate intellectual property rights.September202035.Creation of a system of professional development of judges in the application of competition legislation.Organization of special courses for judges on the application of competition legislation in cooperation with the Higher School of Judges under the High Judicial Council.2021High Judicial Council (U. Mingbaev), Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov)VIII. Implementation of effective instruments for antimonopoly regulation of the digital economy36.Simplification of the conditions for access to digital markets for new participants.1. Inclusion in the Law "On Competition" of the concepts of "digital markets" and their antimonopoly regulation.October 2020Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov), National Agency for Project Management (D. Lee), Mininfocom (Sh. Sadikov)2. Creation of a special legal regime based on the concept of “regulatory sandboxes” that allows testing innovations in digital markets without regulatory documentation. 2020 - 202137.Creation of effective instruments for antimonopoly regulation of digital markets.Development of a procedure for analyzing and defining the commodity and geographical boundaries of digital markets.April 2021Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov), National Project Management Agency (D. Lee)38.Improving the competitive environment in the field of e-commerce.Approval of antimonopoly rules for trading in the e-commerce process.2021Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov)39.Implementation of preventive measures to protect competition in digital markets.Creation of a digital platform based on the RegTech concept (regulatory technologies), which ensures the prompt and effective implementation of the requirements of competition legislation by participants in digital markets.2022Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov),Ministry of Information Technologies (Sh. Sadikov)IX. Ensuring openness of the activities of the antimonopoly authority and the formation of a culture of competition and intolerance in the society towards manifestations of anticompetitive actions40.Wide involvement of public organizations, expert and business communities in the work carried out towards the formation of a healthy competitive environment in the republic.1. Further development of the discussion platform "Competition 4.0.";2. Creation of the Expert Council for the Promotion of Competition.2020 - 2022Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov)41.Formation in society of a culture of competition and intolerance to any manifestations of anti-competitive actions.1. Organization of training courses for business entities dedicated to the development of market skills and knowledge of competition legislation.2. Formation of non-governmental organizations (creation, organization) with the aim of promoting the further development of competition.2020 - 2024Committee for Development of Competition and Protection of Consumer Rights (Sh. Sharakhmetov), Ministry of Justice (R. Davletov)42.Widespread introduction of information technologies in the activities of the Antimonopoly Committee in order to ensure efficiency in identifying cases of restricting competition and taking appropriate measures.Creation of a unified information system of antimonopoly regulation with ensuring its connection to territorial bodies, information and reference systems of all state bodies.2020 - 2022Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov), Ministry of Information Technologies (Sh. Sadikov)43.Increasing the efficiency of the Antimonopoly Committee.Development and implementation of key performance indicators (KPI) of the Antimonopoly Committee based on international best practices.September 2020Antimonopoly Committee (N. Sharipov)44.Further increase the awareness and skills of heads of state and local government bodies on competition policy and competition legislation requirements.Inclusion of special courses on competition policy in the curriculum of the Academy of Public Administration.September 2020Academy of Public Administration (H. Azizov), Antimonopoly Committee (N. Sharipov)X. Systematic increase of human resources capacity of the Antimonopoly Committee45.Creation of a system of training and retraining of personnel in the field of antimonopoly regulation.1. Organization of special courses on antimonopoly regulation and competition legislation in the areas of magistracy of the leading higher educational institutions of the republic.September 2020Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education (I. Madzhidov),Antimonopoly Committee(N. Sharipov)2. Organization of permanent training courses on the application of the requirements of acts of competition legislation for employees of the central office and territorial bodies of the Antimonopoly Committee.December2020

ANNEX No. 3 to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated July 6, 2020 No. UP-6019

ACTION PLAN

for conducting a full-fledge inventory of normative legal acts and normative acts in the sphere of technical regulation that directly affect the business activities

№ Name of measures Implementation Time limits ImplementationForm Responsible agencies 1. Definition of state body for coordinating the implementation of a full-fledge inventory of normative legal acts and normative technical documents that directly affect business activity using the method of "regulatory guillotine" (hereinafter - inventory), the preparation of the plan of its implementation - "Roadmap", approval of the composition of the interdepartmental commission and the appointment of responsible officials of ministries and departments to draw up a list of documents subject to inventory. September 2020 Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers Antimonopoly Committee (N. Sharipov), Ministry of Justice (R. Davletov), Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction (I. Norkulov), Ministry of Finance (T. Ishmetov), Ministry of Investment and Foreign Trade (L. Kudratov), Commissioner under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan for the protection of the rights and legitimate interests of business entities (D. Kasimov), interested ministries and departments 2. Creation of a project office for conduct of inventory at the state body coordinating the continuous inventory. October 2020 Attraction of technical assistance funds. Practical Action Plan Antimonopoly Committee (N. Sharipov), Ministry of Justice (R. Davletov), Ministry of Finance (T. Ishmetov) 3. Involvement of business entities in the “regulatory guillotine” process, consultations with key stakeholders, development of a public relations plan. September-October 2020 Organizational arrangements Antimonopoly Committee (N. Sharipov), Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction (I. Norkulov), Ministry of Justice (R. Davletov) 4. Development of a manual, an electronic questionnaire on inventory. November 2020 Manual and Guidelines Antimonopoly Committee (N. Sharipov), Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction (I. Norkulov), Ministry of Justice (R. Davletov) 5. Involvement of foreign experts, organization of study visits of project office and interdepartmental commission workers to foreign countries with experience in conducting inventory. November 2020 - January 2021 Practical measures Antimonopoly Committee (N. Sharipov), Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction (I. Norkulov), Ministry of Justice (R. Davletov) 6. Creation of a single website for the “regulatory guillotine” process. January 2021 Practical measures Antimonopoly Committee (N. Sharipov), Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction (I. Norkulov), Ministry of Justice (R. Davletov) 7. Organization of special trainings on the “regulatory guillotine” method for responsible officials of ministries and departments. October - December 2020 Organizational measures Antimonopoly Committee (N. Sharipov), Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction (I. Norkulov), Ministry of Justice (R. Davletov) 8. Informing the general public about the essence and goals of the “regulatory guillotine” program, including the organization of seminars and "round tables", the publication of instructions, manuals and other analytical materials. November 2020 - January 2021 Organizational measures Antimonopoly Committee (N. Sharipov), Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction (I. Norkulov), Ministry of Justice (R. Davletov) 9. Formation of a list of legal acts and technical regulation documents subject to inventory. January 2021 Order of the Cabinet of Ministers Antimonopoly Committee (Sharipov), Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction (I.Norkulov), Ministry of Justice (R. Davletov) 10. Inventory of the impact of normative legal acts and normative technical documents of ministries and departments on competition and entrepreneurial activity with the submission of specifically substantiated proposals to the project office on the cancellation, revision or preservation of normative legal acts and documents of technical regulation. January-February 2021 Analytical materials Antimonopoly Committee (N. Sharipov), Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction (I. Norkulov), Ministry of Justice (R. Davletov), ministries and departments 11. Carrying out a thorough examination of the impact of the formed lists of normative legal acts and technical regulation documents submitted by ministries and departments on competition and entrepreneurial activity, with the involvement of representatives of private business and independent experts. February - April 2021 Expert opinion and report Antimonopoly Committee (N. Sharipov), Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction (I. Norkulov), Ministry of Justice (R. Davletov), ministries and departments 12. Conducting discussions with ministries and departments on the conclusions of expert reviews, formation of the final list of revised regulations and planning of discussions on complaints and appeals of ministries. April 2021 Expert opinion and report Antimonopoly Committee (N. Sharipov), Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction (I. Norkulov), Ministry of Justice (R. Davletov), ministries and departments 13. Development of a package of draft normative legal acts for amendments into acts of legislation with an assessment of their impact on competition, business and the State budget. April - July 2021 Draft normative legal acts Antimonopoly Committee (N. Sharipov), Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction (I. Norkulov), Ministry of Finance (T. Ishmetov), Ministry of Justice (R. Davletov) 14. Approval of the package of amendments, introduced into acts of legislation, placement in the National Database of Legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan of adopted normative legal acts and documents of technical regulation. Implementation of the procedure for automatic invalidation of acts of legislation that are not included in the National Database of Legislation. August-September 2021 laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan, decisions of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Government Antimonopoly Committee (N. Sharipov)

ANNEX No. 4 to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated July 6, 2020 No. UP-6019

LIST

of ministries and departments responsible for the development of competition development programs for the period up to 2024, which are assigned the regulation of industries

No.BranchResponsible ministries and departments1.Electricity productionMinistry of Energy2.Oil and gas industry3.Railway transportMinistry of Transport4.Air transport5.Automobile transport6.Road construction7.ConstructionMinistry of Construction8.Design services9.Mobile communication servicesMinistry for the Development of Information Technologies and Communications10.Internet Services11.Preparation of cadastral documentsState Committee for Land Resources, Geodesy, Cartography and State Cadastre12.Carrying out measurement work and topographic survey services13.Certification and metrologyAgency «Uzstandard»14.Automotive industryMinistry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction, Committee for Competition Promotion and Consumer Protection15.Electrical engineering16.Metallurgy17.Food and oil industry18.Building materials19.Chemical industry