On additional measures to ensure openness of state bodies and organizations, as well as effective implementation of public control (DP-6247-son)

16.06.2021

DECREE

OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

In order to improve public control by ensuring openness and transparency of the activities of state bodies and organizations, freedom to obtain information, as well as implementation of the tasks identified in the in the five priority areas of the Republic of Uzbekistan in 2017 — 2021:

1. Approve the List of socially significant information to be published as open data by all state authorities and administration bodies, including the Accounts Chamber, the Central Bank, courts and prosecution bodies and their structural and territorial subdivisions, as well as business entities with the state share in the authorized fund (authorized capital) of 50 percent or more and state unitary enterprises (hereinafter — state bodies and organizations) in accordance with Annex No. 1.

The Anti-Corruption Agency (hereinafter — the Agency), jointly with the Ministry of Justice and relevant ministries and agencies shall on an ongoing basis submit proposals to the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan on further expansion of the list of socially significant information to be placed as open data by state bodies and organizations as a result of ongoing analysis.

2. Establish a procedure according to which state bodies and organizations shall:

а) annually:

publish by March 1 the reports on their activities (with the exception of state secrets and information intended for official use) on their official websites, by March 10 inform about the place and time of their discussion with the participation of the general public;

hold by April 1 the press conferences to discuss the report on their activities with the participation of the general public;

b) starting from July 1, 2021, publish and quarterly update the following information on the Open Data Portal of the Republic of Uzbekistan (hereinafter — the Portal) and on their official websites:

on public procurements made, including goods (works, services) purchased under direct contracts;

on expenses for official business trips of officials and for receiving guests from abroad (purpose of the business trip or visit, per diem, transportation and accommodation expenses, except for state secrets and information intended for official use);

on beneficiaries of entities (ultimate beneficiaries-individuals), to which tax and customs privileges and preferences, including individual privileges are granted by acts of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Cabinet of Ministers, as well as on taxes paid by them and their financial indicators;

on their annual cost estimates and their implementation, including expenditures on construction, reconstruction and capital repairs of facilities, and the purchase of motor vehicles;

c) starting from July 1, 2021, jointly with the public councils operating under them, publish and provide quarterly updates on the official websites of the following information:

contact information (phone, mail, and e-mail addresses) of approved members of the public council along with information about them;

on the meetings of the public council and the agenda items;

on the approved members of the public procurement commission (name, last name and patronymic, place of work and position);

on the responsible employees of the bodies by region, authorized to issue licenses and permissive documents, and accept notifications, including the members of the relevant commission (name, last name and patronymic, position held), who organize the issuance of documents of this category.

3. Approve the proposal of the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education, the State Inspection for Supervision of Quality in Education under the Cabinet of Ministers, and the State Testing Center to implement the procedure for live Internet broadcasting of the following exam processes:

entrance test and creative (professional) examinations in undergraduate education areas of higher educational institutions;

entrance examinations for master's degree (clinical residency) of higher educational institutions;

examinations held for students who wish to transfer their studies from national or foreign higher educational institutions to a state higher educational institution of the republic;

tests taken from applicants for the recognition of educational documents obtained in foreign countries.

The Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education, jointly with the State Testing Center, the State Inspection for Supervision of Quality in Education under the Cabinet of Ministers, and the Ministry for Development of Information Technology and Communications shall:

before the beginning of admission for 2021/2022 academic year launch, on the basis of the "transfer.edu.uz" platform, the "imtihon.uz” web platform open to all users, providing a live Internet broadcast of examination processes specified in this paragraph, involving ministries and agencies whose systems include higher educational institutions;

within a month, develop technical requirements (quality of installed cameras and video, layout plan, etc.) for live Internet broadcast of examinations (tests) process;

Submit proposals to the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Government to take strict accountability measures against authorized persons who fail to comply with the requirements specified in this paragraph.

4. Starting from July 1, 2021, ensure publication on the Portal and a quarterly update of the following information:

by the Accounts Chamber, the Ministry of Finance, supervisory bodies — the information on each audit and inspection (name of the object of control, purpose and terms of the audit or inspection, position, last name, name of a government employee who conducted it) with ensuring the protection of information constituting state or other secrets protected by law (after notifying the head of the relevant supervisory body);

by the Agency for Management of State Assets – the list (with indication of information on the organization performing functions of shareholder (participant, owner) on behalf of the state, territory of the enterprise, taxpayer identification number, state share) of legal entities with the state share in their authorized fund (authorized capital) of 50 percent and more and state unitary enterprises (hereinafter — enterprises with state participation), as well as the list of legal entities in which 50 and more percent of the authorized fund (authorized capital) belong to enterprises with state participation;

by the Ministry of Finance, the Agency for Management of State Assets, ministries and agencies, the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, khokimiyats of regions and Tashkent city — the names and last names of members of executive body (director, chairman of the board, board members) of enterprises with state participation, performing functions of shareholder (participant, owner) on their behalf, and members of supervisory board;

by the State Tax Committee — the information on dividends paid by enterprises with state participation based on the results of the year (quarter);

by the Ministry of Finance — the information on the State budget funds spent on enterprises with state participation, attracted funds from abroad, including the amount of the state foreign debt and their expenditure;

by the Agency for Management of State Assets — the list of state institutions (date of establishment, superior body) and information on privatized objects of state property (except for secret state enterprises and secret institutions constituting state secrets).

5. The Ministry of Finance jointly with the Ministry for Development of Information Technology and Communications, interested ministries and agencies shall ensure by September 1, 2021 the integration of the Portal with the special information portal on public procurement.

6. The State Committee on Ecology and Environmental Protection shall ensure by August 1, 2021 the launch on the official website of the Committee and the Portal of constantly updated Information Base on hunting and hunting farms.

Herewith, the State Committee on Ecology and Environment Protection jointly with the State Committee on Forestry shall ensure that the following information, along with the data stipulated in Article 36 of the Law "On Hunting and Hunting Industry", is reflected in the above information base:

all contracts concluded for the provision of hunting areas for hunting, cases of termination of the right to run a hunting farm, as well as the amounts recovered;

all persons permitted to harvest wildlife and the data in the permits, as well as the amounts recovered;

all permits issued for the removal of wild animals listed in the Red Book of the Republic of Uzbekistan from the natural environment, information in these permits, as well as the amounts recovered;

about the hunting permits (wildlife harvesting cards) issued by the forest hunting ranges of the State Committee on Forestry, as well as the amounts recovered.

7. In order to define the tasks of the Agency in the sphere of ensuring openness of activities of state bodies and organizations:

a) The following additional tasks shall be assigned to the Agency:

coordination and continuous monitoring of the sphere of ensuring openness of state bodies and organizations, including keeping records of their obligations to post (announce) on the Internet the information determined by regulatory and legal acts;

assistance in the development and introduction of measures to establish effective public control over the activities of government bodies and organizations through the mass media;

bringing up for public discussion via the "Mening fikrim" web-portal topical issues related to openness and transparency in the activities of state bodies and organizations, arising from the appeals of individuals and legal entities;

developing and promoting the implementation of proposals for the continuous replenishment, improvement and updating of the List of socially significant information to be posted as open data;

establishing of a culture of "openness, transparency and accountability of the activities of state bodies and organizations" through the mass media, as well as organization of the explanation of the importance of ensuring accountability of state bodies and officials to the people;

b) the Department for Transparency of State Bodies and Organizations shall be established within the structure of the Agency, within the limits of the total maximum number of managerial staff and payroll fund;

c) the Agency shall:

make proposals to the Administration of President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Cabinet of Ministers to bring to justice the guilty officials of state bodies and organizations who systematically violate the requirements of the legislative acts on openness;

ensure the annual preparation of information to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the main achievements in the activity area and shortcomings encountered in the activities of state bodies and organizations, and publish it on its official website;

monitor the implementation of the Law "On Openness of State Government and Administration Bodies' Activity", as well as implement comprehensive measures to improve the position of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the Open Government Index of the World Justice Project.

8. Information services and units for working with appeals of state bodies and organizations shall be entrust with the task of ensuring timely and high-quality execution of legislative acts on openness in these bodies.

9. The State Security Service jointly with the Ministry of Justice, the Agency and other concerned ministries and agencies within three months shall develop and ensure the introduction in accordance with the established procedure of the draft law "On Protection of State Secrets" in the new edition, which provides:

the list of restricted information, its use, as well as the grounds, terms and procedure for inclusion and exclusion of such information from the category of such information;

a ban on the classification of information not included in the list of restricted information;

a ban on the inclusion as state secrets of information the restriction of which threatens the personal safety of citizens;

definition of conditions and procedures for issuing authorized access to work with information constituting state secrets to citizens, civil servants of state bodies and other organizations, foreign citizens and stateless persons;

development and improvement of modern mechanisms for protecting state secrets, with account of the development of information and communication technologies and advanced trends.

10. Approve the Roadmap on further increasing the level of openness in the activities of government bodies and organizations in accordance with Annex No. 2.

11. The Agency jointly with the Agency of Information and Mass Communications, the Ministry of Justice, the State Committee on Statistics until October 1, 2021 shall develop and introduce in accordance with the established procedure the Methodology for monitoring and evaluation of openness of state bodies and organizations' activity, aimed at regulating the activities to ensure openness in state bodies and organizations, including monitoring, assessment of efficiency and effectiveness of the work, calculation of the openness index.

12. Establish that from December 1, 2021 that:

The index of openness of state bodies and organizations is determined at the end of every year on the basis of the methodology specified in paragraph 11 of this Decree;

The Agency, jointly with the Agency of Information and Mass Communications and the Ministry of Justice, in accordance with the established procedure, shall take measures to determine the Openness Index of activities of state bodies and organizations, ensure that the results are communicated to the public through the official websites and mass media.

13. Recommend the chambers of the Oliy Majlis to publish on their official websites the following:

resolutions adopted based on the results of hearing the reports of the objects of parliamentary control;

information about the participation of a deputy of the Legislative Chamber in the adoption or rejection of every draft law (resolution), about the participation of a senator in the approval or rejection of every law (resolution);

information about members of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis, deputies of the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis, Jokargy Kenes of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, regional, Tashkent city, district and city Kengashes of People's Deputies, as well as about their electoral districts and their e-mail addresses.

131. It shall be established that:

a) the first-level budget funds distributors shall submit to the relevant Councils of People's Deputies:

annually by April 1, information on funds distributed to regions and districts (cities) from the republican budget of the Republic of Uzbekistan and state target funds;

by the 15th day of the month following the end of each quarter, information in the context of regions and districts (cities) on subsidies allocated during the financial year from the republican budget of the Republic of Uzbekistan and state target funds;

b) the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, regional hokimiyats, and the Tashkent City hokimiyat shall organize the participation of the responsible persons of the Chamber of Accounts in the discussions at the sessions of the relevant Councils of People's Deputies regarding the external audit of the annual report on the execution of the budget of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, the local budgets of regions and the city of Tashkent, and the results of its evaluation, as well as the conclusions of the Chamber of Accounts on the draft budget for the following year.

14. The National Television and Radio Company of Uzbekistan and the Agency shall:

a) organize the publication of articles and preparation of television programs to cover the goals and objectives of this Decree jointly with the National News Agency of Uzbekistan;

b) from December 1, 2021, jointly with the state bodies and organizations concerned, ensure live broadcasting on television channels, as well as on the Internet, of the following activities:

sessions of the Legislative Chamber and the Senate of the Oliy Majlis, as well as sessions of the Jokargy Kenes of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, regional, district and city Kengashes of People's Deputies (except for closed sessions);

court hearings with the consent of the parties in cases involving offenses against the rights and freedoms of citizens and public safety, in the area of public health, environmental protection and environmental management, including those related to the professional activities of government employees, as well as in certain civil cases involving family disputes (except for closed court hearings).

15. Violation of the provisions and procedures specified in this Decree shall be considered a violation of the legislation on openness of state bodies and organizations.

16. The Agency for Information and Mass Communications jointly with the Agency, the Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction, the State Committee on Statistics, the Ministry of Justice and other concerned ministries and departments, with account of international standards shall develop and submit to the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan in accordance with the established procedure:

until January 1, 2022 - the Concept of the draft law of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On Openness of State Government and Administration Bodies' Activity" in the new edition;

until April 1, 2022 - the draft of this law.

17. The Agency jointly with the Ministry of Justice and other concerned ministries and agencies within two months shall make proposals for amendments and additions to the legislation arising from this Decree.

18. Control over the implementation of this Decree shall be assigned to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan A.N. Aripov and the head of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Z.Sh. Nizomiddinov.

President of the Republic of Uzbekistan SH. MIRZIYOYEV

Tashkent city,

June 16, 2021,

No. DP-6247

ANNEX No. 1 to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. DP-6247 dated June 16, 2021

LIST

of socially significant information to be published as open data

No.Type of information, naming of categories (parameters)Resource where information is postedDeadline for submission and updatingState bodies and organizations responsible for placement1.Report of state bodies and organizations on their activities (except for state secrets and information intended for service use).Official websitesAnnually by March 1State bodies and organizations2.Information on subjects granted tax and customs benefits and preferences, including individual benefits, by acts of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Cabinet of Ministers; information on their ultimate beneficial (profit-receiving) individuals, their paid taxes, and financial indicators.Open Data Portal, official websitesquarterlyState Tax Committee, State Customs Committee, Ministry of Finance3.Information on public procurement, including goods (works, services) purchased under direct contracts by entities performing public procurement.Open Data Portal, official websitesquarterlyState bodies and organizations4.Expenses for business trips of officials and for receiving guests arriving from abroad (purpose of the business trip or visit, per diem, transport, and accommodation expenses (except for state secrets and information intended for service use).Open Data Portal, official websitesquarterlyState bodies and organizations5.Information on goods (works, services) planned for procurement at the expense of the State Budget, state trust funds, and extra-budgetary funds of budgetary organizations (at least 6 months before the procurement announcement).Official websiteson a continuous basisState bodies and organizations6.Information on the composition of procurement commissions formed within the framework of public procurement and investment projects, as well as for the issuance of documents of a permissive nature, including: decision on the approval of the procurement commission composition; data of procurement commission members (surname, first name, and patronymic, place of work, and held position).Official websiteson a continuous basisState bodies and organizations7.Information on each appropriately conducted audit and inspection (name of the control object, purpose and terms of the control event, position, surname, first name of the civil servant who conducted it), while ensuring the protection of information constituting state secrets or other secrets protected by law (after notifying the head of the relevant supervisory body).Open Data PortalquarterlyAccounts Chamber, Ministry of Finance, supervisory bodies8.List of legal entities with a state share in the charter fund (charter capital) of 50 percent or more and state unitary enterprises (hereinafter — enterprises with state participation) (indicating information on the organization performing the functions of a shareholder (participant, owner) on behalf of the state, territory of the enterprise, taxpayer identification number, information on the state share), as well as a list of legal entities where 50 percent or more of the charter fund (charter capital) belongs to enterprises with state participation.Open Data PortalquarterlyAgency for Managament of State Assets9.Information on the first and last names of members of the executive body (director, chairman of the board, board members) and members of the supervisory board of enterprises with state participation that perform the functions of a shareholder (participant, owner).Open Data PortalquarterlyMinistry of Finance, Agency for Managament of State Assets, ministries and departments, Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, khokimiyats of regions and the city of Tashkent10.Information on passenger cars, service houses, and other real estate at the disposal of enterprises with state participation, as well as legal entities belonging to these enterprises.Open Data Portal, official websitesquarterlyMinistry of Finance, Agency for Managament of State Assets, Cadastre Agency, State Tax Committee, ministries and departments, Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, khokimiyats of regions and the city of Tashkent11.Information on dividends paid by enterprises with state participation based on the results of the year (quarter).Open Data PortalquarterlyState Tax Committee12.Information on State Budget funds spent on enterprises with state participation, relevant funds attracted from abroad, including sums of state external debt and their expenditure.Open Data PortalquarterlyMinistry of Finance13.List of state institutions (date of formation, superior body) as well as information on privatized state property objects (except for state enterprises and institutions assigned with confidential tasks constituting state secrets).Open Data PortalquarterlyState Assets Management Agency14.Along with the approved annual expenditure estimate, information on its execution, including works on construction, reconstruction, and capital repair of objects, expenses for the purchase and maintenance of motor vehicles, and other information.Open Data Portal, Official websitesquarterlyState bodies and organizations15.Information on service motor vehicles, service houses, and other real estate, objects of unfinished construction at the disposal of state bodies and organizations (except for items used in operational-search, military, and other special services).Open Data Portal, official websitesquarterlyState bodies and organizations16.Information on responsible employees of bodies authorized to issue licenses and documents of a permissive nature and those accepting notifications in the cross-section of territories, including members of the relevant commission organizing the issuance of this category of documents (surname, first name, and patronymic, held position).Official websites, including "licence.gov.uz" sitequarterlyState bodies and organizations17.First and last names of holders of the following licenses and documents of a permissive nature: engaging in private notary activity; production of edible and technical ethyl alcohol, alcohol products; carrying out banking activities; carrying passengers and goods by rail transport on local and international routes; pharmaceutical activity; activity on design, construction, operation, and repair of bridges and tunnels; activity on extraction, processing, and realization of oil, gas (including compressed natural and liquefied hydrocarbon gas), and gas condensate; activity on design, construction, operation, and repair of main gas pipelines, oil pipelines, and oil product pipelines; conducting expertise and registration of import contracts; haymaking and livestock grazing on reserve lands not included in the state forest fund.Official websites, including "licence.gov.uz" sitequarterlyState bodies and organizations18.Holders of licenses for the right to use relevant subsoil plots, information on the provided plot (areas, minerals), and other information.Open Data Portal, official websitesquarterlyState Committee for Geology and Mineral Resources, State Committee for Ecology and Environmental Protection19.Information on business entities and other organizations involved on a contractual basis in sand and gravel material extraction in riverbeds by the "Safe River Management" state institution under the Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change in the prescribed manner.Open Data Portal, official websitequarterlyMinistry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change20.Information on all holders of permits issued for the special use of objects of the flora of the Republic of Uzbekistan.Open Data Portal, official websitequarterlyState Committee for Ecology and Environmental Protection21.Information on holders of permits issued for conducting entrepreneurial activity on the territory of objects of material cultural heritage taken under state protection of the Republic of Uzbekistan.Open Data Portal, official websitesquarterlyMinistry of Tourism and Sports, Ministry of Culture, State Assets Management Agency22.Information on the income and expenses of state higher educational institutions.Open Data Portal, official websitesquarterlyMinistry of Economy and Finance, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, ministries and agencies having higher education institutions within their structure23.Information on persons who purchased ownership or lease rights to non-agricultural land plots through electronic auction ("E-AUKSION").Open Data Portal, official websitesquarterlyState Assets Management Agency, Cadastre Agency under the State Tax Committee24.Information on persons who are winners of the open tender for granting lease rights to agricultural land plots.Open Data Portal, official websitesquarterlyMinistry of Agriculture, Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, khokimiyats of regions and the city of Tashkent25.Revenue and expenditure estimates of local budgets formed at the end of each quarter, the part executed in excess of the plan, and information on the purposes to which these funds were directed.Official websitesat the end of each quarterCouncil of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, khokimiyats of regions and the city of Tashkent, khokimiyats of districts and cities26.Information on the following: specific addresses where special automated photo and video recording software and technical means are installed; type of traffic rule violation recorded by each software and technical means individually.Official websitesmonthlyMinistry of Internal Affairs, Committee for Roads under the Ministry of Transport27.Information in the cross-section of regions, districts, and cities about persons receiving social benefits and material assistance (benefits for families with children under 14 years of age, childcare benefit until the child reaches two years of age, material assistance to low-income families, and recipients of monthly cash compensation to cover additional costs for the purchase of flour and molded bread) and information on persons receiving unemployment benefit (surname, first name, and patronymic, date of birth).Open Data Portal, official websitesquarterlyMinistry of Finance, Ministry of Employment and Labor Relations28.Information on the list (queue) of applications submitted by persons in need of improved housing conditions for the allocation of subsidies at the expense of State Budget funds to cover part of the down payment and (or) interest on a mortgage loan.Official websitesconstantly in online modeMinistry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction, khokimiyats of districts and cities29.Information on public councils under state bodies and organizations, including: data on the approved members of the public council along with their contact information (telephone, mail, and electronic addresses); meetings of the public council and issues on the agenda.Official websitesquarterlyState bodies and organizations30.Approved semi-annual and (or) annual work plans of state bodies and organizations (except for state secrets and information intended for service use).Official websitesevery semi-annum (annually)State bodies and organizations31.Information on legal entities and individuals who received land areas and other property granted to state bodies for permanent use on the basis of public-private partnership.Official websitesquarterlyState bodies and organizations32.Information on business entities with a state share of the Cabinet of Ministers, ministries, and departments transferred to external or trust management, information on direct foreign investments attracted by the trust manager.Official websitesquarterlyState bodies and organizations33.Reflecting the following information in the information database on hunting and hunting entities: hunting entities; places where hunting is prohibited; allocated quota for catching wild animals; wild animals recognized as causing damage to the hunting entity and human economic activity; establishment of a ban on hunting at specific hunting sites; establishment of a ban on hunting relative to certain types of wild animals; establishment of a ban on hunting relative to wild animals of a certain gender and age; all concluded contracts on granting hunting sites for conducting hunting entity activity, cases of termination of the right to conduct hunting entity activity, and amounts of collected fees; all persons granted a permit for catching wild animals and data in the permit as well as amounts of collected fees; all permits issued for the removal of wild animals included in the Red Book of the Republic of Uzbekistan from the natural environment and data in them as well as amounts of collected fees; hunting vouchers (card for catching wild animals) issued by forest-hunting entities of the State Committee for Forestry and amounts of collected fees.Open Data Portal, official websiteson a continuous basis starting from August 1, 2021State Committee for Ecology and Environmental Protection, State Committee for Forestry34.Information on the name, type of activity, functions and powers, as well as leaders of state institutions forming part of their structure.Official websitesQuarterlyState bodies and organizations35.Information on projects financed at the expense of the State Budget, as well as funds of international financial institutions, including information on their main technical indicators and other project documents regarding perspective investment and infrastructure projects.Official websitesevery semi-annumMinistry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Investments and Foreign Trade, responsible ministries and departments (project initiators)36.Information on the unified online queue of pilgrims waiting for their turn to go for "Hajj" events in the cross-section of territories (date the application of the person going for pilgrimage was placed in the queue, serial number in the list, and type of pilgrimage).Official websitequarterlyMuslim Board of Uzbekistan37.Information on the queue (list) of applications submitted for the admission of children to a state preschool educational organization (date the application was placed in the queue, serial number in the list, age group, and organization number).Official websitesquarterlyMinistry of Preschool and School Education, territorial preschool and school education departments38.Internal departmental procedure of the procurement commission determining the procedures for implementing public procurement in state bodies and organizations (regulation, rules, instructions, or other internal departmental document)Official websitesquarterlyState bodies and organizations39.Information on vacant job positions (in central, territorial, and system organizations), terms of employment, requirements set for candidates, and documents to be submitted.Official websitesmonthlyState bodies and organizations40.Information on grant and social order projects provided by state bodies and organizations to non-governmental non-profit organizations, including information on winning non-governmental non-profit organizations and their reports on work performed within the framework of the order.Official websitesevery semi-annumState bodies and organizations41.Information on the expenditure estimate, spent funds, contracts (suppliers of goods/services), as well as accepted goods and services implemented at the expense of budget system budget funds.Official websitesquarterlyState bodies and organizations42.Information on the expenditure estimate implemented at the expense of budget system budget funds and expenses implemented based on them, signed contracts on the procurement of goods (works, services), as well as goods (works, services) accepted on their basis, and expenses implemented on capital investments for the design, construction (reconstruction), and equipment of objectsOfficial websitesquarterlyAll state authority and management bodies and their structural and territorial divisions, business entities with a state share in the charter fund (charter capital) of 50 percent and more, state unitary enterprises43.Information on the results of (open) ratings introduced by regulatory legal acts and related to the activity of state bodies and organizations.Open Data Portal, official websiteswithin the timeframes established by applicable laws and regulationState bodies and organizations responsible for maintaining the rating

ANNEX No. 2 to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. DP-6247 dated June 16, 2021

ROADMAP

on further increasing the level of openness in the activities of government bodies and organizations

No. Name of measures Implementation Form Deadline Responsible entities 1. Development of a draft law of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On Openness of State Government and Administration Bodies' Activity" in the new edition with account of international standards, providing for: Concept of the law January 1, 2022 Agency of Information and Mass Communications, Anti-corruption Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan, State Committee on Statistics, Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction, Ministry of Justice, Institute for Strategic and Interregional Studies, "Yuksalish" Nationwide Movement, concerned ministries and agencies determination of priority areas of transparency and openness of state government and administration bodies according to the principle of "transparency, openness and accountability"; ensuring by state government and administration bodies the right of participation of individuals and legal entities, as well as civil society institutions in public administration; implementation of the presumption of openness of information of state government and administration bodies, according to which any information that is not restricted by legislative acts shall be public information; establishment of a possibility for citizens, business entities and public organizations to request information or documents (except for state secrets) from state government and administration bodies regarding their rights and interests, as well as mandatory consideration of such requests by these bodies; establishment of personal provision by the heads of state government and administration bodies or heads of information services (press secretaries) to the population of continuous, complete and timely information on the most important issues of life of society and the state, respectively, through the mass media, social networks, official websites, and other information resources, including by holding press conferences, briefings, and media tours; taking measures and assistance in communicating its activities to local government authorities, as well as involving citizens to the process of local governance. Draft law April 1, 2022 2. Development of a draft law providing establishment of liability for violation of the legislation on openness of state government and administration bodies in the Code of Administrative Responsibility. Draft law August 2021 Anti-corruption Agency, Ministry of Justice, Prosecutor General's Office, Supreme Court, Ministry of Internal Affairs, concerned ministries and agencies 3. Development of a draft law "On Protection of State Secrets" in the new edition, with account of international standards, providing for: the list of restricted information, its use, as well as the grounds, terms and procedure for inclusion and exclusion of such information from the category of such information; a ban on the classification of information not included in the list of restricted information; prohibition of the inclusion of information in state secrets, the restriction of which threatens the personal safety of citizens; definition of conditions and procedures for issuing authorized access to work with information constituting state secrets to citizens, civil servants of state bodies and other organizations, foreign citizens and stateless persons; development and improvement of modern mechanisms for protecting state secrets, with account of the development of information and communication technologies and advanced trends. Draft law August 2021 State Security Service, Cabinet of Ministers, General Prosecutor's Office, Supreme Court, Ministry of Internal Affairs, State Customs Committee, State Tax Committee, Ministry of Justice, Anti-corruption Agency, Agency for Information and Mass Communications, Institute for Strategic and Interregional Studies, concerned ministries and departments 4. Making amendments and additions to the Basic requirements for the official website of state and economic administration bodies, local government authorities, approved by the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers dated December 31, 2013 No. 355, providing: a) video recordings of the reporting (collegial) meetings held during the year and the decisions made as a result thereof; b) information on income and expenditures of budgetary and extra-budgetary funds, as well as public procurement in the form of open data; c) compliance with the terms of periodicity of updating the information required to be published on the official website, with breakdown of information by dynamics (variability) and statistics; d) creation of a separate page on the anti-corruption website, and including data on the following areas: anti-corruption policy, including regulatory-legal acts adopted in this area, ethics rules and the state of implementation of regulatory-legal acts; program, plan of measures and other acts developed in this area to combat corruption; the results of the anti-corruption examination of intradepartmental acts; statistical data on corruption offenses and crimes (based on a court decision), including information and reports on the measures taken; data on the channels of communication that allow representatives of individuals and legal entities to provide information on corruption offenses; conducted analyses and public surveys, including online surveys, and their results; outreach materials prepared in the field of formation of intolerant attitude towards corruption (slides, videos, texts of reports, articles, booklets, monographs, etc.); seminars, trainings, roundtables, debates, press conferences, and other events planned to be held with the participation of the general public and the mass media; information on the work implemented by the subdivision of the internal control system (compliance control) and the implementation of international standards in the field of anti-corruption. Draft resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers September 2021 Agency for Information and Mass Communications, Ministry of Information Technology and Communications Development, Anti-corruption Agency, Ministry of Finance, Prosecutor General's Office, Supreme Court, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Justice, ministries and departments concerned 5. Critical examination of the following regulatory-legal acts in terms of relevance and coverage by the regulatory-legal acts and, if necessary, submission of the relevant draft resolution in accordance with the established procedure: Regulation on the preparation and dissemination of information resources of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the data transmission network, including the Internet, approved by the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers dated March 26, 1999 No. 137; Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers dated November 8, 1996 No. 394 "On the Social and Political Fund for the Democratization and Support of the Mass Media of Uzbekistan. Draft resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers September 2021 Agency for Information and Mass Communications, Ministry of Information Technology and Communications Development, National Agency for Project Management, State Unitary Enterprise Cyber Security Center 6. Development of the Methodology to be implemented in all state bodies and organizations to monitor and evaluate openness of the state bodies and organizations' activities, aimed at monitoring openness, assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of work carried out on openness, as well as the calculation of the openness index. Draft regulatory-legal act October 1, 2021 Anti-corruption Agency, Agency for Information and Mass Communications, Ministry of Justice, State Committee on Statistics, Prosecutor General's Office, Supreme Court, concerned ministries and agencies 7. Preparation of a draft regulatory-legal act on the organization of the activities of the Public Control Development Fund under the Anti-corruption Agency, providing: Main tasks of the Fund determination of the exact volume of allocations from the State Budget, the republican budget of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, and local budgets of regions and Tashkent city; specific and transparent procedures and mechanisms for the fund's resources disbursement; reporting on the fund's income and expenditures; ensuring transparency and impartiality in the allocation of funds; the right of the Agency Director to introduce additional staff units in the Agency at the expense of the fund in coordination with the Ministry of Finance. Draft resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers August 2021 Anti-corruption Agency, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Justice 8. Development of a manual for state employees on the use of social networks in order to strengthen public control, as well as completing a list of social networks (Twitter or others) recommended for state government and administration bodies. Manual September 2021 Agency for Information and Mass Communications, Prosecutor General's Office, Ministry of Justice, State Security Service 9. Development and approval of the Methodology of the rating assessment of the efficiency of the activity of public councils under the state government and administration bodies, aimed at improving and enhancing the activity of public councils. Methodology September 2021 Ministry of Justice, Agency of Information and Mass Communications 10. Development and submission to the Cabinet of Ministers of reasoned proposals for membership of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the Open Government Partnership (OGP) international organization based on the analysis of conditions and consequences of the membership, as well as taking into account the experience of foreign countries and existing capacity. Proposals September 2021 Anti-Corruption Agency, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Finance, Agency for Information and Mass Communications, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, State Security Service, Institute for Strategic and Interregional Studies, concerned ministries and agencies 11. Implementation of the following: in accordance with progressive international standards, defining the scope and a specific list of information on the State Budget and budgets of state trust funds, external debts received from foreign states and international organizations, and taking measures to communicate them in detail to the public; preparation of proposals to improve the position of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the Open Budget Index with constant analysis of the experience of developed foreign countries with leading positions in the international ranking of budget transparency; jointly with the Open Knowledge Foundation and other similar international and foreign organizations development and submission to the Cabinet of Ministers of reasoned proposals for the implementation of OpenSpending projects (Where Does My Money Go, Citizen Budget, and others) aimed at ensuring openness and transparency of circulation of the State Budget, taking into account their practical importance; taking practical measures to provide mechanisms for the real involvement of citizens and public associations in the process of forming and managing the budget, including in the discussion of the preliminary draft budget and the auditor's report. Plan of comprehensive measures August 2021 Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction, Antimonopoly Committee, Agency for Information and Mass Communications, Institute for Strategic and Interregional Studies, concerned ministries and agencies 12. implementation of effective cooperation between government bodies and civil society institutions, including: conducting activities by state government and administration bodies to raise awareness of the rights and obligations of representatives of individuals and legal entities, representatives of local self-governance bodies, representatives of the mass media in the area of obtaining information; creating opportunities for public authorities and management bodies to ensure the participation of citizens, public associations and business entities in the development and implementation of management decisions, taking into account their opinions and judgments, as well as establishing a permanent system of information and dialogue; creating by state government and administration bodies of a possibility to critically assess the state of work carried out on the basis of their own areas, and, at the same time, effective establishing the activity of public councils under state bodies, including ensuring the staffing of the most part of the council from amongst experienced domestic and foreign experts, scientists and representatives of other concerned organizations. Plan of comprehensive measures September 2021 Agency for Information and Mass Communications, Ministry of Support of Mahalla and Family, Ministry of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction, Institute for Strategic and Interregional Studies, "Yuksalish" Nationwide Movement, Madad NGO, concerned ministries and agencies, non-governmental non-profit organizations 13. Conducting a comprehensive analysis of the following areas and developing a program of organizational measures to improve the position of our country on the Open Government Factor (WJP Rule of Law Index): state of publishing information about legislative acts and activities of state government and administration bodies; state of security of the right of representatives of individuals and legal entities to access information about the activities of state government and administration bodies; participation of civil society institutions in the sphere of openness of state government and administration bodies' activity; state of implementation and application of mechanisms for submission of complaints on violations of legislative acts on openness of state government and administration bodies. Program of organizational measures September 2021 Anti-Corruption Agency, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Finance, Agency for Information and Mass Communications, Institute for Strategic and Interregional Studies, "Yuksalish" Nationwide Movement, concerned ministries and agencies

Note: regulatory-legal acts may be combined into a single act or revised, if necessary, according to the area and subject of regulation of the relevant legal relations.