On measures to further improve the efficiency of the activities of justice authorities and institutions in ensuring the rights and freedoms of citizens, as well as in the provision of legal services (DP-89-son)

17.03.2022

Decree

of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Over the last years, the role and responsibility of the justice authorities and institutions of has been significantly increasing in legal support for ongoing reforms, clarification of the essence and content of acts of legislation, affecting the rights and interests of citizens and business entities, solving legal problems which concern the population at localities, improving the quality of public services, providing public information about activities carried out on a systematic basis.

Meanwhile, the implementation of the idea of “New Uzbekistan is a people's and humane state” requires further deepening of administrative reforms in the system of justice.

In course of the implementation of a unified state policy in the field of providing public services and legal protection of intellectual property, the need to rationally use the capabilities of the system, ensure coordinated activities in these areas arise, as well as form an integral vertical of management of existing administrative structures.

With the aim to further strengthen the role and responsibility of the justice authorities in solving the legal problems of the population, including through saving and rational use of budgetary funds by strengthening the priority of justice and law in the country, creating a compact and efficient administrative apparatus that professionally serves the population, as well as canceling tasks of declarative nature, a clear definition of organizational and legal mechanisms for the implementation of functions and prevention of duplication, I hereby decree:

1. To agree with the proposal of the Republican Commission for Coordinating the Development of the Administrative Reform Program of New Uzbekistan for 2022-2023 on joining the Public Services Agency and its territorial departments, as well as the Intellectual Property Agency and its territorial centers, to the Ministry of Justice (hereinafter referred to as the Ministry) with the transfer of tasks, functions and powers respectively.

2. To assign the following additional tasks to the Ministry:

a) in the provision of public services to the population:

implementation of a unified state policy in the field of providing public services to natural persons and legal entities;

ensuring fast, convenient and high-quality provision of public services by eliminating unnecessary administrative procedures;

monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the activities of state bodies and other organizations in the provision of public services, including the implementation of relevant information systems, resources and databases;

b) in the legal protection and defense of intellectual property:

development of a unified state policy in the field of intellectual property and protection of rights to inventions, trademarks, copyrights and other objects of intellectual property;

legal protection of inventions, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks and other objects of intellectual property.

3. To approve the Program of measures to further improve the efficiency and digitalization of the activities of the Ministry of Justice in accordance with Annex No. 1.

4. To determine that:

a) centers for the provision of legal services, district (city) centers for public services and their branches, as well as Civil Registry offices shall be transferred to the structure and subordination of the departments of justice of districts (cities), with the preservation of all rights and powers;

b) Ministry:

shall be the legal successor of the Public Services Agency and the Intellectual Property Agency for all rights, obligations and contracts;

shall be an authorized state body that implements a unified state policy in the field of providing public services to natural persons and legal entities, as well as in the field of intellectual property (protection and defense of intellectual property rights) and representing the Republic of Uzbekistan in the World Intellectual Property Organization and other international organizations in areas of intellectual property;

c) extra-budgetary funds of the Public Services Agency and the Agency for Intellectual Property shall be transferred to the Ministry along with all residual funds with maintaining the sources of their formation and directions of use.

Rename the extra-budgetary funds of the agencies, respectively, to the Public Services Development Fund and the Intellectual Property Development Fund of the Ministry.

5. To the Ministry to ensure, within a month, the acceptance of buildings, structures, inventory items, necessary information systems and other property, as well as the relevant documentation of the Public Services Agency and the Intellectual Property Agency.

6. In order to implement the tasks of the Concept for improving rule-making activities, approved by Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated August 8, 2018 No. UP-5505, as well as improving the procedure for adopting acts of legislation, from May 1, 2022, to establish the following procedure, in accordance with which:

in cases where, in accordance with the legislation, it is established that a positive opinion of the territorial justice authorities shall be received when adopting decisions by local executive authorities, the adoption (issuance) of relevant decisions without obtaining such an opinion shall not be allowed;

The Ministry shall monitor the rule-making activities of ministries, departments and local executive authorities and quarterly submit information on its results to the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

7. To establish a procedure according to which, from April 1, 2023:

electronic control copies of objects of copyright must be mandatorily stored in a single database of objects of copyright (hereinafter referred to as the Unified Database);

The State Institution “Center for Intellectual Property” shall be determined as the operator responsible for maintaining the Unified Database, technical support and coordination of the process of entering electronic control copies of copyright objects into the Unified Database;

electronic control copies of the object shall be placed in the Unified Database by persons carrying out activities for the storage of objects of copyright (depositories);

after the electronic control copies of the object are entered into the Unified Database by persons carrying out the storage of objects of copyright (depositories), a document on its acceptance for storage shall be issued.

8. To the Ministry:

by July 1, 2022, to develop and submit to the Cabinet of Ministers a draft regulation on the procedure for storing electronic control copies of copyright objects in the Unified Database;

by January 1, 2023, to ensure the development and implementation of the Unified Database.

9. To grant to the Ministry and its territorial divisions the following additional powers for the effective implementation of the tasks assigned to them:

application of an administrative penalty to officials of state bodies and other organizations for violation of acts of legislation in the field of provision of public services;

imposition of fines on legal entities for offenses in the field of intellectual property;

applying to the court with an application for consideration of a labor dispute that arose in state bodies and organizations with state participation.

10. To grant the Legal Policy Research Institute under the Ministry the following rights:

requesting and receiving from state bodies and organizations documents and information necessary for analysis and research without consideration, including the necessary statistical data, analytical materials, documents and other information on the practice of applying normative legal acts;

familiarization with the practice of applying acts of legislation in state bodies and organizations together with the Ministry of Justice with on-site visits;

engagement on a contractual basis of experienced scientists, other employees and experts of leading educational, research institutions, state bodies and public organizations of the republic, as well as international organizations and well-known educational and scientific institutions of foreign countries to carry out research work;

allocation of up to 80 percent of the funds received for the work performed and services rendered on a contractual basis (with deduction of costs for their performance) for social protection and material incentives for employees.

11. To establish that the terms of material incentives in the form of additional payments established for employees of state organizations engaged in scientific, scientific-pedagogical and labor activities, who have a scientific degree, shall also apply to employees of the Institute.

12. To create in the structure of the Ministry:

a) within the framework of the limited quantity of managerial personnel and the labor payment fund:

Department for International Legal Cooperation, consisting of the Sub-Department for International Legal Cooperation, the Sub-Department for Legal Protection of the Interests of the Republic of Uzbekistan in International and Foreign Organizations and the Sub-Department for Work with International Ratings and Indices;

Sub-Department for the Study of Enforcement of Law Practice on the basis of the Sub-Department for the Study of Enforcement of Law Practice in the Socio-Economic Sphere and the Sub-Department for the Development of Civil Law Relations;

Sub-Department for Regulation of Legal Services on the basis of the Sub-Department for the Coordination of the Activities of Legal Services and the Sub-Department for State Regulation of Legal Services;

Sub-Department for Systematization of Legislation and Regulatory Impact Assessment on the basis of the Sub-Department for Analysis and Systematization of Legislation and Sub-Department for Regulatory Impact Assessment;

b) on account of the staff positions emptied in connection with the accession of the Public Services Agency and the Agency for Intellectual Property to create:

Department for Public Services;

Department for Intellectual Property.

13. To establish that the positions of the newly created structural divisions of the Ministry shall be staffed primarily by employees of the systems of the Public Services Agency and the Agency for Intellectual Property to be joined to the Ministry.

To the Ministry to dismiss the heads of the justice departments of districts (cities) and public service centers within two months, based on changes in the organization of production and labor, and to ensure that this position is staffed with highly qualified and professionally trained management personnel on the basis of an internal competition.

14. To grant the Minister of Justice the right to:

make amendments to the structure of the Central Office of the Ministry, justice authorities and institutions within the established limits of total quantity of employees;

if necessary, in agreement with the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, to introduce additional staff units for public services centers and their branches at the expense of extra-budgetary funds of the Ministry;

to engage as consultants highly qualified specialists of state bodies and other organizations, scientific and educational institutions, international organizations, foreign companies, as well as experts;

to employ qualified foreign specialists and pay them wages in national currency or in foreign currency with transfer to their accounts abroad.

15. To agree with the proposals of the Ministry on:

reorganization of the state unitary enterprise “Intellectual Property Consultative Center under the Agency for Intellectual Property under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan” into the state institution “Center for Intellectual Property” under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

renaming the state institution “Scientific and Practical Center for the Development of Public Services” under the Agency for Public Services into the state institution “Center for the Development of Public Services” under the Ministry of Justice.

To determine that the state institution “Center for Intellectual Property" shall be a specially authorized organization that carries out work on the registration of intellectual property objects, including the state examination of applications for their registration, and the central storage of relevant information on them.

16. To make amendments and additions to certain acts of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Government in accordance with Annex No. 2.

17. To recognize as invalid certain acts of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan in accordance with Annex No. 3.

18. To the Ministry:

within a month, together with the Ministry of Finance, to make amendments and additions to the cost estimate and the staff list of the Ministry in accordance with this Decree;

within three months to submit proposals on amendments and additions to the acts of legislation arising from this Decree.

19. To assign to the Minister of Justice R.K. Davletov personal responsibility for the effective organization of the implementation of this Decree.

To entrust the Advisor to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan B.D. Islamov to discuss the implementation of this Decree, coordination and control over the activities of the bodies responsible for its implementation.

To inform the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan about the effectiveness of the measures taken by September 1, 2022.

President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Sh. MIRZIYOYEV

Tashkent,

March 17, 2022

№ DP-89

ANNEX No. 1 to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated March 17, 2022 No. DP-89

PROGRAM

of measures to further improve the efficiency and digitalization of the activities of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan

No. Name of activities Implementation form Expected Result Implementation time limits Responsible executors 1. Improving the quality of a unified state legal policy, coordinating rule-making activities 1. Amendments and additions to the rules for the preparation and adoption of departmental normative legal acts (registration number 2565 dated February 28, 2014), aimed at further simplifying the processes of adoption of departmental normative legal acts, their legal examination and state registration. Departmental normative legal act Elimination of systemic problems leading to the denial of state registration of departmental normative legal acts, and harmonization of existing legislative acts. June 2022 Ministry of Justice 2. Conducting an inventory of resolutions of the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan adopted in the period 1990 — 2016, developing proposals, based on a result of the inventory, for the abolition of obsolete and no longer relevant norms. Draft normative legal act The study of the national legal framework and the exclusion of redundant normative legal acts in it, ensuring its consistency, the abolition of documents that have no legal force in enforcement of law practice. June 2022 Ministry of Justice 3. Development of an electronic program for automated cost analysis as part of the regulatory impact assessment of the normative legal acts and their drafts. Organizational and technical measures Ensuring transparency and consistency in regulatory impact assessment of a normative legal act, as well as saving time and resources of employees. 2022-2023 Ministry of Justice,interested ministries and departments 4. Organization of anti-corruption examination of existing normative legal acts in the field of social security and social insurance, finance and credit, business and economic activities, foreign economic activity and customs. Based on the results of the examination, submission to the Cabinet of Ministers of a proposal to improve legislation. Draft normative legal act Strengthening the social protection system and further development of entrepreneurial activity by improving acts of legislation, as well as further increasing the investment attractiveness of the country. During 2022 Ministry of Justice,interested ministries and departments 5. Ensuring the regulatory impact assessment by responsible ministries and departments of existing normative legal acts that provide for the introduction of restrictions, additional requirements, obligations or costs for the activities of business entities, as well as the establishment of any types of benefits, guarantees, preferences. Based on the results of the assessment, submission to the Cabinet of Ministers of proposals to improve acts of legislation. Plan for conducting a regulatory impact assessment of normative legal acts Increasing the volume of production and provision of services by ensuring the rights of business entities. During 2022 Ministry of Justice, interested ministries and departments 6. Automation of the process of conducting legal examination of departmental normative legal acts. Organizational and technical measures Creating an opportunity to solve the problems of classifying and systematizing normative legal acts, reducing costs and improving work efficiency through the use of automated analysis of the texts of legal acts, a self-learning mechanism. 2022-2023 Ministry of Justice, Mininfocom 7. Improving the system for implementing the legal network “Legal-Tech” with using the mechanisms of “artificial intelligence”. Organizational and technical measures Saving resources and time for preparing draft documents, improving the quality of prepared drafts and automating the process of preparing drafts. December 2022 Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Innovative Development 8. Placement of legal services centers, district (city) centers for public services and their branches, as well as civil registry offices in a single administrative building in connection with the continuation of their activities as part of the district (city) departments of justice. Program 4 structures conducting separate activities at the district (city) level will be transformed into 1 structure and located in a single administrative building, the rest administrative buildings will be sold to the private sector in the prescribed manner. July 1, 2022 Ministry of Justice, State Assets Management Agency 2. Comprehensive analysis of enforcement of law practice and the effectiveness of the public administration system 9. Creation of a single electronic portal “E-SHARTNOMA”. Draft normative legal act Simplification of the process of preparing and working with contracts through a single platform through the introduction of a single electronic portal “E-SHARTNOMA”, creating the possibility of managing and monitoring it. 2022-2023 Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Finance, State Tax Committee, ministries and departments 10. Subsequent increase in the number of organizations served by legal services centers. Draft normative legal act Ensuring the rule of law by gradually expanding the provision of qualified legal services to government agencies at the district and city levels. December 2022 Ministry of Justice 11. Expanding the functionality of the unified electronic system “E-qaror” for the development, coordination and registration of decisions of local public authorities. Organizational activities Further ensuring the rule of law in the activities of khokimiyats. October 2022 Ministry of Justice 12. Development and approval of a methodology for studying public opinion to identify and develop proposals for enforcement of law practice. Order of the Minister of Justice Creation of an effective mechanism for taking into account the opinion of the general public and identifying legal problems in course of improving acts of legislation. October 2022 Ministry of Justice 13. Introducing additions to the Law “On Local Public Authorities”, providing for: increasing the role of local Kengashes in the socio-economic development of the regions through the introduction of a new form of parliamentary control - the “request of the Kengash”; combining in one document more than 20 tasks provided for in various documents assigned to Kengashi. Draft normative legal act Increasing the efficiency of local public authorities and improving the legal framework for control by local Kengashes of people's deputies over reforms carried out on local level. December 2022 Ministry of Justice 3. Implementation of a unified state policy in the field of administrative procedures and the provision of public services 14. Creation of a web portal and mobile application “SMART JUSTICE - АҚЛЛИ АДЛИЯ”. Organizational and technical measures Combining into a single portal more than 50 electronic public services currently provided by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan, justice authorities and institutions, and developing its mobile application, providing services to legal entities and natural persons from one point and increasing the level of satisfaction of citizens in the process of obtaining public services in electronic form. 2022-2023 Ministry of Justice, Mininfocom 15. Improvement of the information system “License”.Bringing the number of public services provided through this information system to 100. Draft normative legal act Creating favorable conditions for services users, reducing redundant procedures and terms for using public services. June 2022 Ministry of Justice, Mininfocom 16. Increasing the number of public services provided through public services centers. Draft normative legal act Ensuring the provision of prompt and quality services to the population. During 2022 Ministry of Justice 17. Improving the system for automatically detecting violations of the legislation in the context of each service, industry and department not linked to the information system of public services (dxa.gov.uz) and the system of the Single Interactive Portal of Public Services (SIPGU). Organizational and technical measures Achieve the elimination of offenses by systematically analyzing offenses in the provision of public services, taking measures to eliminate them and automatically identify those liable. 2022-2023 Ministry of Justice 18. Design and development of a mobile identification system (MOBIL ERI, FACE ID, DIGITAL ID, SMART ID), as well as the introduction of the procedure for using a personal identification number of a natural person for natural persons and a taxpayer identification number for legal entities as a single login. Draft normative legal act Creation of a system that is convenient upon using public services and free from excessive bureaucracy and saves time for users. June 2022 Ministry of Justice, Mininfocom 19. Creation of a platform that allows consumers at any time and on a systematic basis to evaluate, leave comments and suggestions with respect to the services provided on the websites of the justice authorities and institutions or on a special website (portal) created for the provision of services. Organizational and technical measures Improving the quality of services provided by the justice authorities and institutions, and as a result of continuous evaluation, reducing the number of offenses in the provision of services. 2022-2023 Ministry of Justice 20. The introduction of a system of services for the registration of marriages and divorces in the system of public services centers, the creation of a system of comprehensive registration of birth in the civil registry offices through medical institutions. Draft normative legal act Creating favorable conditions for services users, reducing redundant procedures and time limits for using public services. June 2022 Ministry of Justice 21. Introduce the simultaneous provision of a personal subscriber number when connecting natural persons and legal entities to engineering and communication networks. Draft normative legal act Creating convenience for new connected consumers and avoiding redundant bureaucratic barriers. June 2022 Ministry of Justice 22. Introduce the formalization of conclusions issued by the sanitary and epidemiological, fire services and environmental protection and ecology authorities in the process of coordinating documents resulting from the provision of services (technical specifications, supply contracts, etc.), as well as design and estimate documentation, when connecting natural persons and legal entities to engineering networks through issuance of a QR code. Draft normative legal act Achieve a unified approach to the provision of public services and prevent unnecessary hassle for applicants. June 2022 Ministry of Justice 23. Implementation of the provision of public services in a composite manner when assigning benefits to children under 18 years of age with disabilities and persons under 18 years of age with a disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and persons with childhood disabilities over 18 years of age. Draftnormative legal act Creation of a system that is convenient for using public services and free from excessive bureaucracy, as well as saving users' time. September 2022 Ministry of Justice 24. Introduction of a procedure for the provision of state services in the composite manner for the registration of real estate and addresses. In this respect, state registration of rights to a real estate object and the introduction of a procedure for the simultaneous provision of state services for the registration of owners at this address. Draft normative legal act Prevention of separate appeals of the population to state bodies in the use of interconnected services and saving unnecessary expenses. September 2022 Ministry of Justice 4. Implementation of state policy in the field of intellectual property 25. Creation of a separate section on the special interactive legal portal “Advice for business”, which contains information on the state registration of intellectual property objects, their use and protection of intellectual property rights. Organizational and technical measures Facilitating the legalization of the activities of entrepreneurs and reducing the number of offenses committed by them in the field of intellectual property. November 2022 Ministry of Justice 26. Establishing and making available to the general public a database of counterfeit products and ensuring the exchange of information. Organizational and technical measures Raising awareness of the population about counterfeit products and preventing violations of the rights of copyright holders. 2022-2023 Ministry of Justice, interested ministries and departments 27. Formation in the information portal “IP-Protection” of a unified electronic register of patent attorneys registered in the prescribed manner. Organizational and technical measures Creation of conditions for natural persons and legal entities for wider use of the services of patent attorneys for the registration of intellectual property objects and their legal protection. December 2022 Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Information 28. Preparation of translations in Uzbek of international documents in the field of intellectual property on a competitive basis in order to increase the awareness of the population and business entities about the norms and rules of international documents in the field of intellectual property, as well as further intensify the international registration of local intellectual property objects. Organizational and technical measures Increasing the rates of registration of intellectual property objects abroad and increasing the legal literacy of the population, including business entities, in this area. December 2022 Ministry of Justice 5. Organization of consistent targeted work on legal education and dissemination of legal information 29. Creation of facilities for persons with disabilities to use the National Database of Legislation (Lex.uz), including the introduction of a voice search module. Organizational and technical measures Expanding access to the system for persons with disabilities, simplifying and accelerating the search for large amounts of information in the national database. December 2022 Ministry of Justice 30. Enrichment of the National Legal Internet Portal (huquqiyportal.uz) with interesting data for the population on legal and judicial issues by integrating it with information, legal and educational resources and expanding the coverage of information on the portal. Organizational and technical measures Expansion of forms and directions for obtaining legal information through a single platform. December 2022 Ministry of Justice 31. Gradual inclusion in the national database of legislation by categories (classifiers) with a generalization of decisions of the courts of the Republic of Uzbekistan on civil, administrative, criminal and economic cases. Organizational and technical measures Creating an opportunity to familiarize the public through a single platform with more than 1,7 million decisions of the courts of the Republic of Uzbekistan in civil, administrative, criminal and economic cases. December 2023 Ministry of Justice, Supreme Court 6. Ensuring the effective functioning of the system of legal services and protection of the rights of citizens 32. Integration of the automated information system“Notary”and the electronic database of the Inspectorate for the control of the agro-industrial complex. Organizational and technical measures Creation of favorable conditions for users of notary services and reduction of redundant procedures upon using these services. June 2022 Ministry of Justice,Inspectorate for the control of the agro-industrial complex 33. Implementation of a composite procedure for the provision of public services for issuing a license for the right to engage in advocacy and for registering a lawyer structure. Draft normative legal act Creation of a convenient and free from excessive bureaucracy system for obtaining permits to engage in advocacy. November 2022 Ministry of Justice 34. Improving the activities of departmental notary archives under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, regional and Tashkent city departments of justice. In this respect, to provide for the issuance by departmental notary archives of duplicates of notarial acts submitted to the archives by notaries engaged in private practice, the adoption of wills approved by consuls of consular institutions of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the abolition of property prohibitions imposed by former notaries through the automated information system “Notary”. Draft normative legal act Prevention of redundant procedures by increasing the volume of services provided by departmental notary archives. December 2022 Ministry of Justice 35. Creation of the Adlex platform, which reflects the rating of advocates operating in the Republic of Uzbekistan. Organizational and technical measures Creation of an opportunity for the formation of a healthy competitive environment among advocates and providing the population with the opportunity to choose a qualified and competent lawyer through the introduction of a rating of advocates. December 2022 Chamber of Advocates 7. Improving the system of organizing training, retraining and advanced training of legal personnel 36. Sending employees and professors-teachers of the Tashkent State University of Law to prestigious foreign higher educational and research institutions, as well as international organizations for advanced training and internships. Package of measures Improving the quality of legal education in the system of the Tashkent State Law University and introducing innovative novelties into the education system. During 2022 Ministry of Justice 37. Consolidation of legislative acts regulating the activities of the Center for Advanced Training of Lawyers, including the creation of a modern system of training, retraining and advanced training of legal personnel. Draft normative legal act Further improvement of the legal personnel training system in accordance with international standards. December 2022 Ministry of Justice 38. In order to improve the quality of the education system: generate a list of legal literature; preparation and collection of legal literature based on the generated list; introduction of the electronic system “Yuridik kutubxona” (“Law Library”) Package of measures Creation of a new generation of textbooks with the involvement of foreign scientists.In particular, the use of new ways to easily master the topic of the textbook, including the use of the capabilities of modern information technologies and QR codes. December 2022 Ministry of Justice 39. Implementation of the automated information system “virtual adliyaʼ in the justice authorities and institutions to form a single platform for all information systems and databases in the system of the Ministry of Justice. Organizational and technical measures Improvement of efficiency indicators due to more convenient organization of activities, elimination of redundant procedures and processes, saving time for employees. June 2022 Ministry of Justice 8. Consistent improvement in the quality of forensic 40. Introduction of the institution of private experts engaged in individual non-state forensic activities. Draft normative legal act Ensuring competition and objectivity in the field, as well as the independence of experts through the introduction of alternative forms of forensic activities. May 2023 Ministry of Justice 41. Implementation of the procedure for evaluating the activities of forensic experts in the rating system, taking into account their professional competence, the quality of forensic examinations and other criteria. Draft normative legal act Assistance in the qualified restoration of violated rights of persons in the process of forensic examination by encouraging based on the rating of experts. September 2023 Ministry of Justice 42. Introduction of a system of services provided by forensic institutions and organizations of the Republic of Uzbekistan to foreign organizations and foreign citizens in order to create conditions for the widespread use of forensic examination. Draft normative legal act Development of forensic activities, introduction of additional types of services. September 2023 Ministry of Justice 43. Development of multidisciplinary electronic software aimed at solving problems of identification and diagnosis of a person in forensic practice. Organizational and technical measures Creation of possibilities for additional identification and diagnostics based on the database of laboratory genetic data. 2022-2023 Ministry of Justice

ANNEX No. 2 to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated March 17, 2022 No. DP-89

Amendments and additions to certain acts of the President and the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan

1. In the third paragraph of clause 8 of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated May 15, 2015 No. UP-4725 “On measures to ensure reliable protection of private property, small businesses and private entrepreneurship, remove barriers to their accelerated development”, the words “off-budget fund of the Public Services Agency under the Ministry of Justice” shall be replaced by the words “Fund for the Development of Public Services of the Ministry of Justice”.

2. In paragraph 3 of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated April 13, 2018 No. UP-5415 “On measures to radically improve the activities of justice authorities and institutions in the implementation of state legal policy”:

a) in the text in the state language from the ninth paragraph the word “belgilansin” to exclude;

b) add the tenth paragraph with the following content:

"implementation of general management and control over the activities of public service centers and their branches, civil registry offices and centers for the provision of legal services."

3. In Appendix No. 3 to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated January 17, 2019 No. UP-5635 “On the State Program for the Implementation of the Action Strategy in five priority areas of development of the Republic of Uzbekistan in 2017 — 2021 in the Year of Active Investments and Social Development”:

a) in the column “Responsible state bodies” of positions 1.1 and 2.1, the words “Agency for Intellectual Property (T. Abdusattorov)” shall be excluded;

b) in the column “Responsible state bodies” of positions 11.1.3, the words “Public Services Agency (U. Mukhammadiev)” shall be replaced by the words “Ministry of Justice (R. Davletov)”.

4. In the second paragraph of clause 3 of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated June 7, 2019 No. UP-5739 “On measures to simplify the procedure for the liquidation of business entities”, the words “Public Services Agency under the Ministry” shall be replaced by the word “Ministry”.

5. In paragraph 3 of the section “IV. Improving the positions of the banking system of Uzbekistan in international ratings” of the Strategy for Reforming the Banking System of the Republic of Uzbekistan for 2020 — 2025, approved by Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated May 12, 2020 No. UP-5992, the words “State Committee for Land Resources, Geodesy, Cartography and State Cadastre, Compulsory Enforcement Bureau, Public Services Agencies” shall be replaced by the words “Cadastre Agencies, Compulsory Enforcement Bureau, Ministry of Justice”.

6. In the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated June 2, 2020 No. UP-6003 “On improving the position of the Republic of Uzbekistan in international ratings and indices, as well as introducing a new mechanism for systematic work with them in state bodies and organizations”:

a) in the column “Responsible state bodies” of item 4.1.3 of Appendix No. 3 , the words “Public Services Agency (U. Mukhammadiev)” shall be replaced by the words “Ministry of Justice (R. Davletov)”;

b) subparagraph "b" of paragraph 3 of Appendix No. 5 shall be recognized as invalid.

7. In paragraph 3.7 of Chapter 3 of the Strategy for the Development of Competition in Commodity and Financial Markets in 2020 — 2024, approved by Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated July 6, 2020 No. UP-6019, the words “Intellectual Property Agency” in the appropriate case shall be replaced by the words “Ministry of Justice» in the appropriate case.

8. In the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated August 24, 2020 No. UP-6044 “On measures to radically improve licensing and permit procedures”:

a) in clause 12 , the words “Public Services Agency” shall be replaced by the words “Ministry of Justice”;

b) in the first paragraph of clause 13, the words “off-budget fund of the Public Services Agency” shall be replaced by the words “Public Services Development Fund of the Ministry of Justice”;

c) the third paragraph of subclause "c" of clause 17 shall be stated as follows:

“to ensure the uninterrupted functioning of the information system “License”, if the Ministry of Justice detects failures and malfunctions in its functioning, ensure their elimination within three days at the request of the Ministry.”

9. In the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated October 5, 2020 No. UP-6079 “On approval of the Strategy “Digital Uzbekistan — 2030” and measures for its effective implementation”:

a) clause 26 of Annex No. 22 shall be declared invalid;

b) in Appendix No. 23 in the text in the state language:

in the column “Tashkilotlar” of position 3.2. the words “Davlat hizmatlari agentligi” shall be replaced by the words “Adliya vazirligi”;

in the column “Tashkilotlar” of position 9.6. the words “Intellectual Mulk Agentligi” shall be replaced by the words “Adliya Vazirligi”.

10. In the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated July 5, 2021 No. UP-6256 “On measures to improve the forensic system in the Republic of Uzbekistan”:

a) in Appendix No. 3 :

Paragraph two shall be amended as follows:

"by position - First Deputy Minister of Justice, Deputy Chairman of the Council";

the twelfth paragraph shall be stated in the following wording:

"by position - head of the Department of Legal Education and Forensic Expertise, Secretary of the Council";

b) in the column "Names of responsible organizations and institutions" of position 7 of Annex No. 4 , the words "Intellectual Property Agency" shall be deleted.

11. In the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated July 24, 2021 No. UP-6269 "On measures to improve the infrastructure for the provision of public services and expand the population's access to public services":

a) the second subparagraph of paragraph "b" of clause 1 shall be stated in the following wording:

“payments shall be returned to the applicant at the expense of the Public Services Development Fund of the Ministry of Justice and collected by the Ministry of Justice in an unconditional (non-acceptance) manner from extra-budgetary and other funds of state bodies and organizations that have delayed the provision of public services”;

b) paragraphs 12 and 13 shall be declared invalid;

c) from paragraph 19 exclude the words “and director of the Public Services Agency U.I. Muhammadiev";

d) positions 48 and 79 of Appendix No. 2 , as well as position 14 of Appendix No. 5, shall be deleted;

e) in the column "Bodies responsible for the digitalization of the database and their issuance" of paragraphs 1 and 2 of Appendix No. 3 , the words "Public Services Agency" shall be replaced by the words "Ministry of Justice";

f) in the column “from ministries and departments” of position 9 of Appendix No. 5 , the words “Public Services Agency (U. Mukhammadiyev)” shall be replaced by the words “Ministry of Justice (R. Davletov)”;

g) in Appendix No. 6 :

paragraph 7 shall be excluded;

in paragraph 11, the words "First Deputy Director of the Public Services Agency" shall be replaced by the words "Head of the Department of Public Services";

h) Paragraph 7 of Annex No. 7 shall be declared invalid.

12. In the text in the state language of the State Program for the Implementation of the Development Strategy of New Uzbekistan for 2022 — 2026 in the “Year of Ensuring Human Interests and Development of the Mahalla”, approved by Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated January 28, 2022 No. UP-60 in the column “Masul Ijrochilar» in clauses 2, 27, 31 and 33 the words «Davlat hizmatlari agentligi (lavozim buyicha)» shall be deleted.

13. In clause 2 of the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated August 1, 2011 No. PP-1591 “On approval of an international treaty”, the words “Intellectual Property Agency under the Ministry of Justice” shall be replaced by the words “Ministry of Justice”.

14. In paragraph 2 of the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated November 25, 2011 No. PP-1648 “On approval of an international treaty”, the words “Intellectual Property Agency under the Ministry of Justice” shall be replaced by the words “Ministry of Justice”.

15. In the Regulation on the class ranks of employees of legal services of state bodies and organizations, approved by the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated January 19, 2017 No. PP-2733:

a) in paragraph 3 :

in the fourth subparagraph, the word "leading" shall be replaced by the word "chief";

the sixth subparagraph shall be deleted;

the seventh subparagraph shall be considered the sixth subparagraph;

b) in sub-clause "b" of paragraph 4:

the fourth subparagraph shall be deleted;

the fifth subparagraph shall be considered the fourth subparagraph;

c) sub-clause "c" of paragraph 41 shall be stated as follows:

"c) the Deputy Executive Officer of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan on legal expertise and the chief specialist of its apparatus, as well as the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan and specialists of their apparatus on the recommendation of the Executive Officer of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan."

16. In the Regulations on the procedure for organizing business trips of officials to foreign countries, approved by the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated August 3, 2017 No. PP-3170:

a) in the second paragraph of clause 13, the words “or deputies” shall be excluded;

b) from the column "Subjects" of the III stage, the words "or deputies" should be excluded.

17. Paragraph fourteen of clause 7 of the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated August 23, 2017 No. PP-3240 “On improving the procedure for the material, technical and financial support of the activities of courts and justice authorities” shall be stated as follows:

“maintenance of managerial and auxiliary personnel of justice authorities and institutions”.

18. From paragraph 4 of the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated November 1, 2017 No. PP-3366 “On approval of an international treaty”, the words “and the Director General of the Agency for Intellectual Property A.N. Fayzullaev" shall be excluded.

19. In paragraph 4 of the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated December 12, 2017 No. PP-3430 “On the organization of the activities of the Public Services Agency under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan”:

a) in the first subparagraph , the words "activities of the Agency" shall be replaced by the words "Fund for the Development of Public Services of the Ministry of Justice";

b) the second subparagraph shall be excluded.

20. In the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated April 13, 2018 No. PP-3666 “On organizational measures to further improve the activities of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan”:

a) clause 1 shall be stated in the following wording:

"1. To determine the main tasks of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan:

implementation of a unified state policy in the field of lawmaking;

coordination of activities in the field of regulatory impact assessment, as well as anti-corruption examination of normative legal acts and their drafts;

dissemination of legal information and provision of access to it;

implementation of legal propaganda, as well as coordination of the work of state bodies and organizations in the field of legal propaganda;

implementation of measures to ensure consistent and uniform enforcement of law practice in the activities of government bodies, business associations, local public authorities;

implementation of measures for the legal protection of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of citizens;

conducting targeted and thematic analytical studies and monitoring the state of affairs on the ground in the context of industries, regions and departments to ensure timely, complete and high-quality execution of acts of legislation and instructions, including jointly with the Accounts Chamber;

analysis and monitoring of the effectiveness of the public administration system based on advanced foreign experience and modern development trends;

coordination, control and methodological assistance to the activities of legal services of state bodies and organizations, as well as ensuring the provision of legal services to state bodies and organizations specified in acts of legislation;

ensuring the effective functioning of the system of notaries, advocacy and other structures providing legal services to individuals and legal entities;

participation in the development and implementation of measures to combat the legalization of proceeds from crime, the financing of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction;

implementation of state policy in the field of development of activities of non-governmental non-profit organizations, assistance in organizing their interaction with state bodies and organizations;

implementation of a unified state policy in the field of administrative procedures;

implementation of a unified state policy in the field of providing public services to natural persons and legal entities;

improving the procedure for the provision of public services by eliminating redundant administrative procedures, as well as the development of interdepartmental electronic cooperation;

control and evaluation of the effectiveness of the activities of state bodies and other organizations for the provision of public services, including the introduction of relevant information systems, resources and databases;

development of a unified state policy in the field of intellectual property, as well as protection of rights to inventions, trademarks, copyright and other intellectual property;

legal protection of inventions, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks and other objects of intellectual property;

organization of training, retraining and advanced training of legal personnel, ensuring the conduct of fundamental and applied research in the field of jurisprudence;

development of priority directions for the development of forensic activities, coordination of work on the training and advanced training of forensic experts;

taking systematic and consistent measures to improve the position of the Republic of Uzbekistan in international ratings and indices in the political and legal sphere;

establishing and strengthening international legal cooperation, conducting legal examination of international treaties;

ensuring legal protection of the interests of the Republic of Uzbekistan in international and foreign organizations, timely informing the international community, foreign investors about the national legal system and ongoing legal reforms”;

b) subparagraph "a" of paragraph 2 shall be declared invalid;

c) in clause 3 :

from the fourth subparagraph , the words “with a limited total quantity of management personnel of 210 units financed from the State budget of the Republic of Uzbekistan” shall be excluded;

subparagraphs ninth — twelfth shall be excluded;

d) in the second subparagraph of clause 4, the words “all draft normative legal acts” shall be replaced by the words “draft normative legal acts of major economic and socio-political importance, as a rule”;

e) appendices No. 1 — 6 shall be stated accordingly in the following wording:

“ANNEX No. 1 to the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated April 13, 2018 No. PP-3666

REGULATION

on the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Chapter 1. General Provisions

1. The present Regulation shall determine the status, main tasks, functions, rights, responsibilities, procedures for organizing activities and reporting of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan (hereinafter referred to as the Ministry).

2. The Ministry shall be a body of public administration, carrying out general management and coordination of the activities of justice authorities and institutions.

The Ministry shall be subordinate to the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan (hereinafter referred to as the Cabinet of Ministers), and on certain issues of activity shall be subordinate directly to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

The Central Office of the Ministry, the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, territorial departments of justice, justice units of districts (cities) shall be deemed law enforcement agencies.

3. The Ministry shall be guided in its activities by the Constitution and laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan, resolutions of the chambers of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, decrees, resolutions and orders of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, resolutions and orders of the Cabinet of Ministers, as well as this Regulation and other acts of legislation.

4. Decisions of the Ministry, adopted within its powers, shall be binding on public administration bodies, economic associations, local executive authorities, other organizations and their officials, as well as legal entities and natural persons.

5. The Ministry, the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, the departments of justice of the regions and the city of Tashkent shall be deemed legal entities, have a seal and blanks with the image of the State Emblem of the Republic of Uzbekistan, an independent balance sheet, treasury personal accounts, bank accounts, including bank accounts in foreign currency.

Justice units of districts (cities), centers for the provision of legal services, public services centers and civil registry offices (hereinafter referred to as civil registry offices) shall not be legal entities, shall not own, manage or operate separate property. The civil registry offices shall have a seal and blanks with the image of the State Emblem of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

6. Official name of the Ministry shall be:

a) in the state language:

full — Uzbekiston Respublikasi Adliya vazirligi, abbreviated — Adliya vazirligi;

b) in Russian:

full — Министерство юстиции Республики Узбекистан, abbreviated — Министерство юстиции or Минюст;

c) in English:

full — Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan, abbreviated — Ministry of Justice or Minjust.

7. Location (postal address) of the Ministry: 5, Sayilgokh street, Tashkent city.

Chapter 2. Structure of the Ministry

8. The system of the Ministry shall include:

Central Office of the Ministry;

Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, departments of justice of the regions and the city of Tashkent, justice units of districts (cities), centers for the provision of legal services, public service centers and civil registry offices;

Legal Policy Research Institute;

Republican Center for Forensic Expertise named after Kh. Sulaymanova;

State Institution “National Legal Information Center “Adolat”;

State Institution “Center for the Development of Information and Communication Technologies in the Justice authorities and Institutions”;

State Institution “Center for the Development of Public Services”;

State Institution “Center for Intellectual Propertyʼ;

state notary offices and archives;

Center for Advanced Training of Lawyers;

Tashkent State University of Law;

legal colleges;

Academic Lyceum.

Justice authorities and institutions shall be independent from local government authorities and shall report directly to the Ministry.

Chapter 3. Tasks and Functions of the Ministry

9. The main tasks of the Ministry shall be:

implementation of a unified state policy in the field of lawmaking;

coordinating the activities of the regulatory impact assessment and conducting anti-corruption examination of normative legal acts and their drafts;

dissemination of legal information and provision of access to it;

implementation of legal propaganda and coordination of the work of government bodies and organizations in the field of legal propaganda;

implementation of measures to ensure consistent and uniform practice of enforcement of law in the activities of government bodies, business associations, local government authorities;

implementation of measures for the legal protection of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of citizens;

conducting targeted and thematic analytical studies and monitoring the state of affairs on the ground in the context of industries, regions and departments with respect to ensuring timely, complete and high-quality execution of legislative acts and instructions, including jointly with the Accounts Chamber;

analysis and monitoring of the effectiveness of the public administration system on the basis of advanced foreign experience and modern development trends;

coordination, control and methodological assistance to the activities of legal services of government bodies and organizations, as well as ensuring the provision of legal services to government bodies and organizations specified in legislative acts;

ensuring the effective functioning of the system of notaries, advocates and other structures providing legal services to natural persons and legal entities;

participation in the development and implementation of measures to combat the legalization of proceeds from crime, the financing of terrorism and the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction;

implementation of state policy in the field of development of activities of non-governmental non-profit organizations, assistance in organizing their interaction with government bodies and organizations;

implementation of a unified state policy in the field of administrative procedures;

implementation of a unified state policy in the field of providing public services to natural persons and legal entities;

improvement of the procedure for the provision of public services by eliminating redundant administrative procedures, as well as the development of interdepartmental electronic interaction;

monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the activities of government bodies and other organizations in the provision of public services, including the introduction of relevant information systems, resources and databases;

development of a unified state policy in the field of intellectual property and protection of rights to inventions, trademarks, copyrights and rights to other intellectual property;

legal protection of inventions, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks and other objects of intellectual property;

organization of training, retraining and advanced training of legal personnel, ensuring the conduct of fundamental and applied research in the field of jurisprudence;

development of priority directions for the development of forensic activities, coordination of work on the training and advanced training of forensic experts;

taking systematic and consistent measures to improve the position of the Republic of Uzbekistan in international ratings and indices in the political and legal sphere;

establishing and strengthening international legal cooperation, conducting legal examination of international treaties;

ensuring legal protection of the interests of the Republic of Uzbekistan in international and foreign organizations, timely informing the international community, foreign investors about the national legal system and ongoing legal reforms.

10. The Ministry, in accordance with the tasks assigned to it, shall perform the following functions:

1) in the field of conducting a unified state policy in law-making activities, shall:

develop priority areas of legal policy in order to implement constitutional norms, ensure human rights and freedoms, establish in society the spirit of observance of the law and respect for it;

coordinate and provide methodological guidance for the activities of government bodies and organizations in lawmaking;

monitor and analyze the law-making activities of government bodies and organizations;

conduct legal examination of draft normative legal acts to determine their compliance with the legislation, the norms of international treaties, the goals and objectives of the reforms being carried out in the country, the rules of legislative technique, the identification of provisions and norms in them that create conditions for the manifestation of corruption, the commission of other offenses, as well as introducing excessive administrative and other restrictions for natural persons and legal entities, normative documents in the field of technical regulation in order to identify their compliance with the legislation and the presence of legal norms in them;

conduct an analysis of corruption risks in the application of normative legal acts on practice, and also identify norms that lead to corruption in legal acts and their drafts, adopt measures to eliminate them and develop recommendations;

reveals legal gaps in acts of legislation, provisions and norms that create conditions for the commission of offenses, imposes excessive administrative and other restrictions on natural persons and legal entities, prepare proposals for their elimination;

prepare draft official comments on by-laws and submit them for consideration to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Cabinet of Ministers;

provide opinions on draft official comments on normative legal acts in accordance with the instructions of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Cabinet of Ministers;

conduct state registration of departmental normative legal acts;

maintain the state register of departmental normative legal acts;

adopt decisions on classifying legal acts of ministries, state committees and departments as categories of acts not subject to state registration;

exercise control over compliance with the established procedure for the adoption, state registration and bringing to the attention of interested parties of departmental normative legal acts;

maintain records of government protocol decisions;

exercise control over compliance with the established procedure for conducting legal examination, adoption, publication and bringing to the attention of interested parties of normative legal acts by local government authorities;

approve the procedure for maintaining a systematic record of normative legal acts by government bodies and organizations, exercise control over its observance;

carry out state record of normative legal acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan and systematization of acts of legislation;

maintain control copies of normative legal acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan, form their bank (fund);

approve methodological guidelines for the preparation, legal and technical formalization and legal examination of draft normative legal acts by government bodies and organizations;

determine the procedure for conducting anti-corruption examination of normative legal acts and their drafts;

approve the rules for the preparation and adoption of departmental normative legal acts;

approve the General Legal Classifier of Branches of Legislation, assign codes to normative legal acts on the basis of the classifier;

conduct legal examination of decisions of a regulatory nature of local government authorities with respect to determination of their compliance with acts of legislation, the goals and objectives of the reforms being carried out in our country;

2) in the field of coordination of the activities of the regulatory impact assessment of normative legal acts and their drafts, as well as conducting anti-corruption examination, shall:

coordinate, analyze and monitor the activities of public administration bodies, local executive authorities and other organizations with respect to the regulatory impact assessment and anti-corruption examination of legal acts and their drafts, and also provide them with methodological assistance;

assess the regulatory impact and conduct anti-corruption examination of legal acts and their drafts;

form a list of employees of government bodies, local executive authorities and other organizations responsible for the regulatory impact assessment;

maintain the Register of experts for anti-corruption examination of acts of legislation and their drafts;

prepare proposals for improving the skills of employees of public administration bodies, local executive authorities and other organizations responsible for regulatory impact assessment and conducting anti-corruption examination;

evaluate the activities of employees of legal services of government bodies and organizations in conducting anti-corruption examination of normative legal acts and their drafts;

adopt effective measures to eliminate violations in the field of regulatory impact assessment and conduct anti-corruption examination of legal acts and their drafts;

publish information on the state of the regulatory impact assessment system and anti-corruption examination in the media, and also submit it to the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Cabinet of Ministers;

3) in the field of dissemination of legal information and ensuring access, shall:

carry out coordination, methodological guidance and control over the activities of state bodies and organizations in the field of dissemination of legal information and ensuring access to it;

ensure timely communication to all state bodies and organizations of normative legal acts, and relevant information and analytical materials;

organize the introduction of software and hardware tools and technologies for collecting, processing and analyzing legal information;

organize the creation and maintenance of the National Database of the Legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan, provide access for legal entities and natural persons in the prescribed manner;

organize the official publication of normative legal acts, including the official source for the publication of normative legal acts, which is “Collection of Legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan”, as well as together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan — “Collection of International Treaties of the Republic of Uzbekistan”;

4) in the field of legal propaganda and coordination of the work of state bodies and organizations in the field of legal propaganda, shall:

carry out legal propaganda and organize communication to the population of the essence and significance of legislative acts;

evaluate the work of state bodies and organizations in the field of legal propaganda;

study the work carried out by state bodies and organizations on legal propaganda;

ensure the wide use of legal information by state bodies and organizations, coordinate their activities for effective cooperation with civil society institutions and the media;

carry out comprehensive measures to radically improve the quality of communication about the essence and significance of legislation, the development of fundamentally new approaches to the organization of that activity;

study and analyze the general public opinion in order to radically improve the quality of information about the essence and significance of legislation;

prepare videos, infographics and other visual materials to explain the essence and meaning of legislative acts and instructions under the heading “Decisions of the President — execution and control” in an understandable language, and also cover them on television and in social networks;

submit to the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan information annually on the state of legal propaganda;

5) in the field of implementation of measures on ensuring consistent and uniform enforcement of law practice in the activities of public administration, business associations, local government authorities, shall:

conduct analysis and study of the practice of applying normative legal acts in the activities of state bodies and organizations;

organize the study of public opinion on the effectiveness of acts of legislation and enforcement of law activities;

summarize the practice of applying legislative acts and analyze the state of implementation of state policy in the relevant field of activity, on this basis develop measures to improve enforcement of law activities;

coordinate the activities of government bodies in the field of legal monitoring;

analyze the implementation of legal monitoring by public administration bodies and prepare recommendations on measures to improve the quality of legal monitoring;

coordinate the activities of the responsible departments and organizations participating in the determination of the Rule of Law Index of the regions, and act as an operator of the automated information system for determining the Rule of Law Index of the regions “Huquq ustuvorligi”, analyze the indicators and study their causes;

consider and issue an conclusion on the draft decision on the demolition of the property;

carry out systematic control and monitoring of strict compliance by state bodies and other organizations with the requirements of the Regulations on the procedure for providing land plots on the basis of ownership and lease for entrepreneurial and urban planning activities through an electronic online auction;

6) in the field of implementation of measures for the legal protection of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of citizens, shall:

exercise control over the observance by state bodies and organizations with the participation of the state of acts of legislation in the field of human rights;

collect information on possible violations of human rights and freedoms and evaluate it, taking into account the principles of universal standards of human rights and freedoms, reflected in international treaties;

adopt measures to restore the violated rights of citizens in state bodies and organizations with the participation of the state;

7) in the field of conducting targeted and thematic analytical studies and monitoring the state of affairs on the local level in the context of industries, regions and departments for ensuring timely, complete and high-quality execution of acts of legislation and instructions, including jointly with the Accounts Chamber:

maintain the system “Ijro.gov.uz” and monitor the timely execution of acts of legislation and instructions through the Ijro.gov.uz system;

enter into the system “Ijro.gov.uz” assignments accepted for control, based on these assignments determine the responsible executors and deadlines, check the completeness and reliability of the data entered by executors, and also examine the validity of proposals to extend the deadlines for execution established in acts of legislation and assignments;

monthly submit to the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Cabinet of Ministers information on the status of execution of acts of legislation and instructions;

develop and submit for approval to the head of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan a draft program for conducting annual targeted and thematic analytical studies of the implementation of acts of legislation and assignments;

carry out systematic monitoring of the state of execution of acts of legislation and assignments on local level through information and communication technologies, including social networks, messengers, the mobile application of the Ijro.gov.uz system and other means of feedback;

organize public monitoring and hearings with the involvement of civil society institutions, the media and citizens;

conduct targeted and thematic studies of the state of execution of acts of legislation and assignments and, based on their results, submit proposals quarterly to the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Cabinet of Ministers;

conduct an analysis of the state of openness of government bodies and organizations using targeted and thematic studies, public monitoring and public hearings, as well as other means within its competence;

develop methodological manuals on legal and methodological assistance to state bodies and organizations in the execution of acts of legislation and assignments, and also provide them legal and methodological assistance in this area;

8) in the field of analysis and monitoring of the effectiveness of the public administration system based on advanced foreign experience and modern development trends, shall:

conduct comprehensive and systematic monitoring and analysis of the activities of state bodies and organizations in order to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of the public administration system;

conduct a functional analysis of the full and high-quality implementation of the powers and functions of state bodies and organizations, as well as the achievement of established goals;

prepare, based on the results of analysis and monitoring, proposals for improving the public administration system, organizational and staff structures and mechanisms of work of state bodies and organizations, for optimizing and decentralizing their duplicating functions by eliminating unnecessary and unusual tasks, functions and powers;

participate in the development of criteria for evaluating the activities of employees of state bodies and organizations;

annually, together with interested ministries and departments, analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the activities of interdepartmental collegiate bodies and, based on the results, submit proposals for their reduction and optimization in the future;

form and constantly update the register of interdepartmental collegiate bodies;

9) in the field of coordination, control and methodological assistance to the activities of legal services of state bodies and organizations, as well as ensuring the provision of legal services to state bodies and organizations specified in legislative acts, shall:

carry out coordination and control over the activities of legal services of state bodies and organizations;

study the activities of the legal services of state bodies and organizations, the state of their legal work;

take part in the appointment and dismissal of employees of legal services of state bodies and organizations;

organize advanced training of employees of legal services of state bodies and organizations;

determine the procedure for attestation of employees of legal services of state bodies and organizations, issue a certificate of attestation;

maintain records of employees of legal services of state bodies and organizations;

organize an internship for persons appointed for the first time to the position of an employee of the legal services of state bodies and organizations;

provide methodological support for the activities of legal services of state bodies and organizations;

determine the procedure for the formation and maintenance of a database of legal services of state bodies and organizations, the forms and terms for submitting information for inclusion in the database;

determine the procedure for agreeing with the justice authorities on the issue of appointment and dismissal of employees of legal services of state bodies and organizations;

determine the procedure for employees of legal services of state bodies and organizations to undergo internships in the justice authorities;

develop and approve the minimum requirements for the material and technical equipment of the workplace of employees of legal services of state bodies and organizations;

in cases stipulated by legislative acts, organize the provision of high-quality legal services in a centralized manner to state bodies and organizations of the district (city) level, financed from the State budget through modern information technologies;

organize the provision of legal services to other organizations in the manner prescribed by legislation on a paid basis;

10) in the field of ensuring the effective functioning of the system of notaries, advocacy and other structures providing legal services to natural persons and legal entities, shall:

implement the state policy in the field of notaries and adopt measures to ensure a unified notarial practice;

monitor the observance by notaries of the legislation on notaries, analyze and summarize their work;

determine the procedure for holding a competition for appointment to the position of a notary of a state notary office and a qualification exam for the right to engage in private notarial activities;

ensure the formation and maintenance of a unified automated information system “Notary” and its integration with databases and information systems of ministries and departments;

certify the authenticity of notaries' signatures and their seal impressions on documents intended for use abroad, perform other functions related to notarial activities;

approve the rules of notarial office work, instructions on the procedure for performing notarial acts by notaries, the form of registers for registering notarial acts, certification inscriptions and certificates, the procedure for organizing the activities of a notary trainee;

in agreement with the Notary Chamber of the Republic of Uzbekistan (hereinafter referred to as the Notary Chamber), approve the forms and sets the deadlines for the submission of statistical data by notaries;

create and liquidate state notary offices, establish and abolish the positions of a notary, maintain a register of notaries;

license the activities of notaries engaged in private practice;

together with the Notary Chamber, monitor compliance by notaries engaged in private practice with licensing requirements and conditions;

exercise control over compliance with the procedure for registration and deregistration of notaries engaged in private practice;

approve the minimum number of notary posts and determine the minimum number of notary posts in a certain territory (in a notary district);

determine the procedure for advanced training of notaries, their certification and transfer (rotation);

approve the regulations on the Higher Qualification Commission under the Ministry and qualification commissions under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, departments of justice of the regions and the city of Tashkent;

organize the activities of the Higher Qualification Commission under the Ministry;

maintain statistics of notarial actions;

assist the activities of the Notary Chamber;

affix an apostille on relevant official documents in accordance with international treaties of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

provide notary offices, consular offices of the Republic of Uzbekistan in foreign countries with stamped (special) blanks of strict accountability;

establish the procedure for accounting, storage, expenditure and reporting of stamp blanks issued to notary offices;

approve the list of paid services and additional actions of a legal and technical nature performed by notaries, the fees for these actions and the provision of services, as well as for the issuance by departmental notary archives of duplicates of notarized documents to legal entities and natural persons, extracts from registers, the provision of certificates and copies of archival documents;

assist in ensuring guarantees for the activities of lawyers' associations and the Chamber of Advocates of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

determine, together with the Chamber of Advocates of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the powers and procedure for organizing the activities of qualification commissions;

approve, together with the Chamber of Lawyers of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the composition of the High Qualification Commission under the Chamber of Advocates of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

issue licenses to advocates;

maintains the Consolidated State Register of Advocates working in law firms;

render assistance in professional development of advocates;

approve, in agreement with the Chamber of Advocates of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the forms and sets the deadlines for the submission of statistical data of lawyer formations;

approve the form of the advocate's certificate and the procedure for issuing it;

approve the form of an order for the conduct of a case by an advocate;

monitor compliance by advocate with licensing requirements and conditions;

study statistical data on the activities of the advocates;

maintain the Register of professional mediators;

maintain the Register of commercial organizations providing legal consulting services;

11) in the field of participation in the development and implementation of measures to combat the legalization of proceeds from crime, the financing of terrorism and the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, shall:

develop and approve, in accordance with the established procedure, internal control rules for advocate firms and notary offices, as well as monitor and control their compliance;

study, analyze and assess possible risks of legalization of proceeds from crime, financing of terrorism and financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the field of legal and notary services, as well as in the activities of non-governmental non-profit organizations and adopt measures to reduce the identified risks;

in course of conducting state registration (re-registration) of legal entities - business entities, on the basis of the information they provide about their beneficiaries, form and maintain a register of beneficiary owners of legal entities;

adopt measures in accordance with legislative acts in case of detection of violations of legislative acts on combating the legalization of proceeds from crime, the financing of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction;

12) in the field of implementation of state policy in the field of development of activities of non-governmental non-profit organizations, assistance in organizing their interaction with state bodies and organizations, shall:

carry out state registration of non-governmental non-profit organizations and their symbols;

maintain the state register of registered non-governmental non-profit organizations;

exercise control over the observance by non-state non-profit, including religious, organizations of legislative acts, statutory activities, constituent documents, the procedure for re-registration and liquidation;

take measures aimed at preventing violations by non-state non-profit, including religious, organizations of acts of legislation, statutory activities and constituent documents;

carry out accreditation of employees of non-state non-profit, including religious, organizations who are foreign citizens, as well as members of their families who are dependent on them;

analyze incoming information about events organized by non-governmental non-profit, including religious, organizations;

coordinate the receipt by non-state non-profit, including religious, organizations of funds and property from foreign states, international and foreign organizations, citizens of foreign states or on their behalf from other persons;

accept and analyze reports on the activities of non-governmental non-profit, including religious, organizations;

prepare and submit proposals for consideration by the court on the suspension of activities or liquidation of non-governmental non-profit organizations in case of violation of legislative acts by them;

distribute between political parties state funds allocated to finance their statutory activities;distribute between political parties state funds allocated to finance their statutory activities;

monitor the activities of non-governmental non-profit, including religious, organizations;

determine the procedure for receiving funds and property from foreign states, international and foreign organizations, citizens of foreign states or on their behalf from other persons, and also approve the forms of activity reports, accreditation cards of non-governmental non-profit, including religious organizations;

carry out accounting registration of permanent arbitration courts and registration of temporary arbitration courts;

13) in the field of implementation of a unified state policy in the field of administrative procedures, shall:

study, control and analyze the observance by all administrative bodies that carry out administrative procedures of the Law “On Administrative Procedures” and other legislative acts regulating administrative relations;

conduct an inventory of the functions of the bodies that carry out administrative procedures for the regulation of administrative and legal activities, and monitor the performance of their functions in accordance with the legislation;

carry out systematic work to optimize, unify, reduce the procedures, time limits and necessary documents for all administrative procedures, including public services, using business process reengineering methods;

take measures to eliminate legal gaps in the implementation of administrative procedures, as well as the introduction of innovative and information and communication technologies in this area and the development of interdepartmental electronic interaction;

take systematic measures to eliminate offenses identified in the field of administrative procedures, causes and conditions that contribute to them;

14) in the field of implementation of a unified state policy in the field of rendering public services to natural persons and legal entities:

coordinate and provide methodological guidance for the activities of state bodies and other organizations, including civil registry offices, on the provision of public services;

carry out general management of the activities of public service centers, their branches and civil registry offices;

organize the state registration of legal entities, as well as natural persons as business entities;

ensure compliance with the legislation during the liquidation of organizations that do not carry out financial and economic activities, exercise control over the activities of authorized bodies and organizations during the liquidation of organizations;

15) in the field of improving the procedure for the provision of public services by eliminating redundant administrative procedures, as well as developing interdepartmental electronic interaction, shall:

ensure the efficiency, responsiveness and transparency of the activities of state bodies and other organizations, strengthening their responsibility and performance discipline, creating additional mechanisms for providing feedback from the population and business entities;

introduce and improve the procedure for electronic document management between state bodies and other organizations using the infrastructure of interdepartmental information exchange;

coordinate and facilitate the organization of information exchange activities between state bodies, other organizations and the Single Portal of Interactive Public Services of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

conduct systematic surveys among the population and business entities in order to improve the quality of public services provided;

form the Unified Register of Public Services, and also ensure its proper (up-to-date) state;

16) in the field of monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the activities of state bodies and other organizations in the provision of public services, including the implementation of relevant information systems, resources and databases, shall:

monitor, control and analyze the activities of state bodies and other organizations in the provision of public services, including the implementation of relevant information systems, resources and databases;

carry out inspections of the activities of state bodies and other organizations providing public services for compliance with the requirements of legislative acts and administrative regulations;

impose administrative penalties on officials of state bodies and other organizations, including business associations, housing and communal and operational services for violations of legislative acts in the field of public services;

prepare twice a year detailed information on the state of the activities of state bodies and other organizations for the provision of public services, containing information on violations of the legislation in this area, the perpetrators and emerging problems, as well as proposals for eliminating indicated deficiencies for submission to the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Cabinet of Ministers;

provide natural persons and legal entities with information and advisory support on the provision of public services;

17) in the field of developing a unified state policy in the field of intellectual property, as well as protecting the rights to inventions, trademarks, copyright and other intellectual property, shall:

carry out the elaboration of the main directions for the development of the sphere of intellectual property;

take effective measures to ensure the legal protection of intellectual property objects, including by assisting authorized state bodies in counteracting the production, release, sale of counterfeit goods;

implement measures to ensure consistent and uniform enforcement of law practice in the field of intellectual property;

conduct study and analysis of compliance with normative legal acts and the practice of their application in the field of intellectual property in the activities of state bodies and other organizations;

issue, in accordance with the established procedure, a conclusion on violations of the legislation on copyright and related rights;

study the incorrect or contradictory practice of applying normative legal acts in the field of intellectual property, take practical measures to eliminate violations in this area, and also consider appeals from natural persons and legal entities on these issues;

carry out international exchange of patent documentation and patent legal literature with foreign patent offices, international, regional and foreign organizations;

consider in accordance with the legislation the appeals of natural persons and legal entities on the issues of legal protection of intellectual property objects and defense of rights to intellectual property objects;

provide methodological assistance to interested parties in the field of legal protection of intellectual property objects and defense of rights to intellectual property objects;

conduct a comprehensive analysis and assessment of the state of development of the field of intellectual property, including taking into account the methodology and criteria of international ratings and indices in this area;

monitor the implementation of international obligations adopted by the Republic of Uzbekistan in the field of ensuring reliable legal protection and defense of intellectual property;

18) in the field of legal protection of inventions, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks and other objects of intellectual property, shall:

organize work on the state examination of inventions, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks, service marks, geographical indications, appellations of origin and topologies of integrated circuits, establishing the priority of declared objects, conducting official examination of selection achievements and checking computer programs, databases;

carry out state registration of inventions, utility models, industrial designs, registration of selection achievements, trademarks, service marks, geographical indications, appellations of origin of goods, official registration of computer programs, databases and registration of topologies of integrated circuits, issue titles of protection, maintain a List of well-known in the Republic of Uzbekistan trademarks and relevant registers;

establish uniform forms of security and other necessary documents;

ensure the performance of the function of a depository, ensuring the openness and availability of intellectual property objects stored in the depository, including the creation of the possibility of obtaining the necessary copy under an agreement with the depositary by any person who applied to this depository;

register license agreements for the granting of rights to use intellectual property objects, as well as agreements for their full or partial assignment and maintain the relevant registers;

form a database of officially registered objects of intellectual property, provides conditions for their preservation and use;

ensure the organization and conduct of work on the acquisition of the State Patent Fund, as well as its safety and availability for effective use by business entities, scientific organizations, scientists and specialists;

organize and publish bulletins and other official publications in the field of intellectual property, as well as other information and materials on legal protection and defense of intellectual property;

carry out attestation and registration of patent attorneys, maintain the state register of patent attorneys;

take measures to strengthen the international image of the Republic of Uzbekistan, including by communicating to the world community objective information about the ongoing reforms in the country in the field of intellectual property, preparing review, reference and other materials;

19) in the field of organizing training, retraining and advanced training of legal personnel, ensuring the conduct of fundamental and applied research in the field of jurisprudence, shall:

analyze the state of legal education, develop proposals for its improvement;

develop plans and organize the publication of legal textbooks, teaching aids for pupils and students of professional and higher educational institutions, as well as other legal literature;

determine the need for state bodies and other organizations for legal personnel, organize and manage the work on their training in educational institutions of the Ministry's system;

organize training, retraining and advanced training of legal personnel;

create a reserve of personnel, organize their training, retraining and internships, select and participate in the placement of personnel of justice authorities and institutions;

take measures to develop legal science, coordinate the conduct of fundamental and applied research in the field of state and public construction, the judicial and legal system, law-making, application of law, law enforcement activities in the country;

organize methodological support of educational work in the field of law;

20) in the field of developing priority areas for the development of forensic activities, coordination of work on the training and advanced training of forensic experts, shall:

organize research, expert work in the field of forensic examination;

carry out coordination and scientific and methodological management of the activities of state forensic institutions of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

develop priority directions for the further development of forensic activities, coordinate work in the field of training and advanced training of forensic experts;

take measures to introduce modern achievements of science and technology into forensic activities;

determine the procedure for establishing the level of complexity of forensic examinations conducted by forensic experts of non-state forensic organizations, calculating the terms for conducting forensic examinations depending on their level of complexity, as well as the norms for the workload of forensic experts with monitoring their observance;

maintain state registers of non-state forensic organizations, their forensic experts and methods of forensic research;

approve the minimum requirements for equipping the material and technical base for each type of forensic examination conducted by non-state forensic organizations;

conduct attestation of non-state forensic experts, determine the rules of professional ethics of a forensic expert and monitor their observance;

21) in the field of taking systematic and consistent measures to improve the position of the Republic of Uzbekistan in international ratings and indices in the political and legal sphere, shall:

analyze the assessments given to the Republic of Uzbekistan in international ratings and indices in the political and legal sphere;

carry out coordination, methodological guidance and monitoring of the development by state bodies and organizations, research institutes of proposals for a comprehensive study and elimination of factors and problems that influenced the assessments given to the Republic of Uzbekistan in international ratings and indices in the political and legal sphere;

evaluate normative legal acts providing for the implementation of reforms in areas that are assessed within the framework of international ratings and indices in the political and legal sphere, in terms of their possible impact on the position of the Republic of Uzbekistan in international ratings and indices, taking into account their methodology;

carry out coordination, methodological guidance and monitoring of the activities of state bodies and organizations to inform international and foreign organizations that make up international ratings and indices in the political and legal sphere, about the reforms implemented in Uzbekistan in the relevant areas, and their results.

22) in the field of establishing and strengthening international legal cooperation, conducting legal examination of international treaties, shall:

coordinate proposals for the conclusion of international treaties of the Republic of Uzbekistan, participate in the preparation and execution of international treaties of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

conduct legal examination of draft international treaties;

submit proposals on the preparation, conclusion and execution of international treaties of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the provision of legal assistance;

gives legal opinions on agreements on state external borrowings and state guarantees of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the prescribed manner;

23) in the field of ensuring legal protection of the interests of the Republic of Uzbekistan in international and foreign organizations, timely informing the international community, foreign investors about the national legal system and ongoing legal reforms, shall:

provide legal protection of the interests of the Republic of Uzbekistan in international and foreign organizations;

carry out interdepartmental interaction with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as other state bodies and organizations in ensuring the legal protection of the interests of the Republic of Uzbekistan in international and foreign organizations on international arbitration and litigation;

protect the interests of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the courts of foreign states and international arbitrations when disputes are considered in which one of the parties is the Republic of Uzbekistan;

collect and organize a systematic analysis of relevant materials related to litigation and arbitration proceedings with the participation of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

attract and coordinate the activities of foreign and national advocate (legal) firms, consultants and experts in order to represent the interests of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the courts of foreign states and international arbitrations;

perform the functions of a working body of working groups created within the framework of specific arbitration proceedings;

form and maintain a database on issues of proceedings in the courts of foreign states and international arbitrations;

carry out legal, including judicial, protection of the rights and legitimate interests of the President and ex-President of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

ensure communicating to the international community and the public the objective information about the ongoing legal reforms in the country, primarily on the protection of human rights and freedoms, including for the purpose of refuting unreliable information;

consider with the participation of the competent authorities the appeals of citizens of the Republic of Uzbekistan about violations of their rights and freedoms, including those received from international organizations about the use of torture and other cruel, degrading types of treatment.

The Minister of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan (hereinafter referred to as the Minister) shall annually submit information on the state of rule-making activities and enforcement of law practice of state bodies and organizations to the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

The Ministry may also perform other functions provided for by legislative acts.

Chapter 4. Powers and Responsibility of the Ministry

11. The Ministry for the implementation of the tasks and functions assigned to it shall have the following powers:

1) adoption within its competence of normative legal acts that are binding on state bodies and organizations, natural persons and legal entities, including jointly with other state bodies;

2) submission for consideration by the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Cabinet of Ministers and other state bodies of proposals on improving legislation and enforcement of law practice, as well as on the tasks and functions assigned to it;

3) in case of non-fulfillment by state bodies and other organizations of tasks in the field of rule-making, within the framework of the Concept of administrative reforms, as well as those related to enforcement of law practice and administrative procedures, submission of proposals to the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Cabinet of Ministers to hold their officials accountable;

4) checking in state bodies and other organizations the status of:

norm-making activities, legal work, activities of legal services, publication and communication of normative legal acts to the attention of interested parties;

enforcement of law practice, enforcement of legislation to ensure the rights of citizens, compliance with the established procedure for the provision of public services, including visits to places;

5) conducting an audit of compliance by non-governmental non-profit organizations with legislation and constituent documents, as well as the targeted use of funds allocated to them;

6) submission to ministries, state committees, departments, law enforcement and regulatory bodies, local government bodies and other organizations of mandatory submissions:

on the elimination of offenses, systemic problems and shortcomings identified in the process of monitoring the rule-making activities of these bodies;

on the abolition and withdrawal from execution of acts of a regulatory nature that have not passed state registration;

on the abolition, suspension (in whole or in part) of normative legal acts that do not comply with the legislation, or on bringing them into line with legislative acts;

on the need to adopt normative legal acts, the official interpretation of the normative legal acts adopted by them, indicating the period for their preparation;

about the identified practice of incorrect or contradictory application of normative legal acts, violations of the requirements of legislative acts, elimination of the causes and conditions that contribute to them, including the bringing of perpetrators to disciplinary liability;

on the elimination of identified violations in the field of the regulatory impact assessment and conducting an anti-corruption examination of legal acts and their drafts, the causes and conditions that contribute to them, as well as corruption factors and norms;

on ensuring the implementation of the laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan, decrees, resolutions, orders and instructions of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, as well as on the timely and correct entry of the necessary data into the Ijro.gov.uz system;

7) submission to non-state non-profit, including religious, organizations, lawyer formations of mandatory submissions on the elimination of identified violations of the legislation, constituent documents in the activities of non-state non-profit organizations;

8) written warning of officials about the inadmissibility of violation of acts of legislation;

9) submission of proposals to the relevant state bodies and other organizations to bring the guilty officials to liability in case of revealing the facts of violation by them of the legal rights and freedoms of citizens, legislation in the field of activity of legal services, as well as in case of failure to comply with the legal requirements of the justice authorities;

10) submission of applications and claims to courts in the interests of the state, legal entities and natural persons, as well as justice bodies and institutions without paying state fees;

11) requesting and receiving from state bodies and other organizations documents and information free of charge necessary to perform the tasks and functions assigned to the Ministry, including the necessary statistical data, analytical materials, documents, other information, decisions and other acts, information on practice of application of normative legal acts;

12) requesting and receiving information, documents and information from non-state non-profit, including religious, organizations, as well as explanations from their heads and responsible persons;

13) calling and involving representatives of ministries, state committees, departments, scientific and educational institutions and other organizations for conducting inspections, study applications from natural persons and legal entities, as well as prepare information and analytical materials on issues related to the field of activity of the Ministry;

14) calling officials and employees of state bodies and other organizations, as well as natural persons on intellectual property issues in order to clarify the circumstances identified during the audit and analysis, demanding oral and written explanations on the facts of violation of legislative acts;

15) transfer of state property of the Ministry and its subordinate structures from one structural unit to another on the right of use without consideration within its organizational structure;

16) determining the procedure, amounts and conditions for material incentives for employees of the Ministry and its subordinate organizations, taking into account the fulfillment by them of the parameters for the main indicators of their activities in the relevant field;

17) placement of extra-budgetary funds, as well as funds on deposit accounts of justice bodies and institutions, on deposits in commercial banks of the Republic of Uzbekistan in national and foreign currencies. In this respect, the income received from the placement of funds shall be credited to the off-budget accounts of the justice bodies and institutions with the direction of these incomes to strengthen the material and technical base, material incentives for their employees, as well as for other purposes provided for by legislative acts;

18) conclusion of international agreements of an interdepartmental nature on issues within the competence of the Ministry, in the prescribed manner;

19) representing the interests of the Republic of Uzbekistan at the international level on issues within the competence of the Ministry, in the prescribed manner;

20) removal from the state register of departmental normative legal acts that contradict the laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan, acts of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and decisions of the Cabinet of Ministers, in the prescribed manner;

21) consideration of appeals of natural persons and legal entities on violation of their rights, freedoms and legitimate interests;

22) taking part in meetings of collegiums of state bodies and organizations when considering issues within the competence of the Ministry;

23) speaking in the courts of foreign states and international arbitrations as a representative of the plaintiff and the defendant in legal disputes relating to the rights and legitimate interests of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

24) submission to the qualification commissions of advocates of the issue of bringing advocates to disciplinary liability;

25) suspension and termination of licenses issued to advocates and notaries engaged in private practice;

26) termination of the certificate of attestation of an employee of the legal service;

27) taking part in events (conferences, seminars, trainings, meetings, promotions, etc.) held by non-governmental non-profit organizations;

28) adopting decision to ban holding events planned by non-state non-profit, including religious organizations;

29) decision-making on suspension or termination of state financing of the statutory activities of political parties;

30) deprivation of accreditation of employees of non-governmental non-profit organizations that are foreign citizens, as well as members of their families who are dependent on them, in case of violation by them of the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

31) implementation, within the scope of tasks and functions, of international cooperation, establishing direct links and cooperation with bodies of foreign states, international and foreign organizations, as well as submission of proposals for the conclusion of international treaties;

32) creation, reorganization and liquidation of the relevant units, as well as the approval of their charters (regulations) necessary to ensure the activities of the justice bodies and institutions;

33) upon presentation of an official ID, access to the territory of state bodies and other organizations to familiarize themselves with documents and materials, use electronic databases (banks) of data necessary for analysis and verification, subject to respect state and other secrets protected by law;

34) drawing up, within its competence, protocols on administrative offenses on the facts of violations of the legislation, entailing administrative liability;

35) participation in the legal monitoring of legislative acts carried out by government bodies;

36) development, within instructions of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Cabinet of Ministers and on their own initiative, of draft normative legal acts and submitting them for consideration in the prescribed manner;

37) presenting opinion on the application of normative legal acts;

38) providing recommendations and explanations, as well as making instructions to state bodies and organizations on the application of normative legal acts;

39) sending generalized materials to state bodies and organizations to take measures to eliminate identified violations of the requirements of normative legal acts, the causes and conditions that contribute to them;

40) cooperation with state bodies and other organizations within their tasks and functions;

41) carrying out advertising activities through public service centers in their premises and in adjacent territories, as well as activities for the production of seals and stamps of business entities without the status of a legal entity;

42) use of the relevant databases, state information systems and resources of the competent authorities in the prescribed manner;

43) provision of paid services in accordance with the list and tariffs of paid services agreed with the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

44) inviting highly qualified foreign and domestic specialists to work as consultants and experts on a contract basis;

creation of working groups, including with the involvement of foreign experts, in order to develop solutions to current and future problems related to the development of areas of activity;

45) engagement, in agreement with the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan, as employees and consultants of qualified foreign specialists with the establishment to them, as an exception, of wages and other payments in foreign currency at the expense of extrabudgetary funds of the Ministry;

46) imposition of a fine on legal entities for violations of legislation in the field of intellectual property;

47) requesting, in the prescribed manner, from applicants additional materials to applications for inventions, utility models, industrial designs, selection achievements, trademarks, service marks, appellations of origin, computer programs, databases and topologies of integrated circuits necessary for consideration of applications and conducting state examination;

48) applying to the court with an application for the consideration of labor disputes in state bodies and organizations with state participation;

49) submission to the bodies of economic management, organization of housing and communal and operational services of representations on the elimination of identified violations and shortcomings in the provision of public services, the reasons and conditions that contribute to them.

The Ministry may have other powers and rights in accordance with legislative acts.

12. The tasks, functions, powers, rights and responsibilities of the central office, territorial and structural divisions of the Ministry shall be established by regulations and charters approved by the Minister, unless otherwise provided by decisions of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan or the Cabinet of Ministers.

13. The Ministry shall be responsible for the quality performance of the tasks and functions assigned to it, as well as for the effective implementation of state policy in the relevant area.

Chapter 5. Organization of Activities of the Ministry

§ 1. Management of the Ministry

14. Minister of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan shall:

1) carry out general management of the activities of the Ministry, organize the implementation of tasks and functions assigned to the Ministry by the relevant acts of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Cabinet of Ministers;

2) bear personal responsibility for the fulfillment of the tasks and duties assigned to the Ministry;

3) issue orders, give assignments and instructions, obligatory for execution by justice authorities and institutions, and their employees;

4) in accordance with the established procedure appoint and dismiss employees included in the list of positions of organizations in the system of the Ministry;

5) determine the powers and duties of deputies and other officials in the system of the Ministry, distribute duties between them;

6) approve periodic work plans of the Ministry and ensure control over their implementation;

7) organize systematic retraining and advanced training of employees of the Ministry;

8) carry out the selection and placement of personnel in the system of the Ministry, determine the requirements for their specialty (law, economics, finance, psychology, international relations, philology, etc.), create the necessary conditions for their effective activity, form the personnel reserve of the Ministry;

9) implement measures aimed at ensuring professionalism and competence, a high level of business and moral qualities of personnel proposed for vacant positions included in the nomenclature of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, as well as other personnel employed by the Ministry;

10) adopt normative legal acts within powers, if necessary, adopt decisions and other documents jointly with other government bodies;

11) coordinate and exercise control over the activities of the heads of territorial and structural divisions of the Ministry;

12) decide issues of encouraging and bringing to disciplinary liability of employees of the Ministry, submit proposals for encouraging and bringing to disciplinary liability of deputies Minister, including consideration of issues of the expediency of their continued stay in their positions, take systematic measures to increase their personal responsibility;

13) assign class ranks in the prescribed manner and submit to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan employees of justice bodies and institutions for the assignment of higher class ranks, as well as of employees of other state bodies, in accordance with the legislation;

14) redistribute extra-budgetary funds of justice bodies and institutions to ensure financial balance in the system of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

15. The Ministry shall be headed by the Minister, who shall be approved for the post by the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the proposal of the Prime Minister, made after the approval by the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and shall be dismissed by the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

The minister shall be a member of the Cabinet of Ministers by status.

16. The minister shall have five deputies, including one first deputy.

17. The First Deputy and other Deputy Ministers shall be appointed and dismissed by the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

18. During the absence of the Minister, the execution of their powers shall be carried out by the First Deputy Minister, and in their absence by another deputy in accordance with the order of the Minister.

19. Heads of territorial subdivisions and subordinate organizations of the Ministry shall be appointed and dismissed by the Minister, except for cases provided for by legislative acts.

20. Regulations on territorial subdivisions and subordinate organizations of the Ministry shall be approved by the Minister, unless otherwise provided by decisions of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan or the Cabinet of Ministers.

§ 2. Fulfillment of Assigned Tasks and Functions, as well as Procedure for Interaction between Structural Units of the Central Office of Ministry with Its Territorial Divisions

21. The Ministry shall solve the tasks and functions assigned to it directly, as well as through the justice bodies and institutions.

22. Disagreements arising in the process of interaction between the structural subdivisions of the Central Office of the Ministry, its territorial subdivisions and subordinate organizations shall be considered on behalf of the Minister by respective deputy. In case it is not possible to resolve the disputes by the Deputy Minister, the final decision shall be adopted by the Minister directly.

§ 3. Order of Interaction of Ministry with Other Government Bodies, Economic Associations, Local Government Authorities and Other Organizations

23. The Ministry shall interact with other government bodies, economic associations, local government bodies and other organizations in course of carrying out its tasks and functions.

24. The territorial subdivisions of the Ministry shall interact within their competence with the territorial bodies of other government authorities, economic associations, local government bodies and other organizations.

The territorial subdivisions of the Ministry shall closely cooperate with the sectors for integrated socio-economic development in the elaboration and implementation of “road maps” for the socio-economic development of the respective territories.

The territorial subdivisions of the Ministry shall interact within their competence with the territorial law enforcement bodies, tax and other public authorities in identifying and suppressing offenses in the field of intellectual property.

25. The activities of the Ministry shall be supervised by the relevant structural divisions of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

§ 4. Collegium, other Advisory, Consultative, Expert Bodies of the Ministry

26. Collegium shall be formed in the Ministry, consisting of the head (chairperson of the collegium), their deputies (by position), as well as heads of structural divisions who coordinate the main directions of its activities.

The number and composition of the Collegium shall be approved by the Cabinet of Ministers on the proposal of the Minister.

27. The following tasks shall be assigned to the Collegium:

hearing reports from the heads of structural divisions of the Ministry on the activities of the relevant divisions, as well as on the implementation of acts of legislation, acts of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and decisions of the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

consideration of the main issues of the Ministry's activities, discussion of issues of verification of the implementation of decisions, draft orders and other documents that are important for the activities of the Ministry, as well as the results of inspections.

The Collegium shall also have the right to consider other issues within the competence of the Ministry.

28. Heads of public administration bodies, economic associations, other organizations may be invited to a meeting of the Collegium with respect to issues within their competence.

29. The Collegium shall be deemed competent if more than half of its members are present at its meeting. Decisions on issues under consideration shall be adopted by a simple majority of votes.

30. The decisions of the Collegium shall be implemented by orders of the Minister.

31. In the event of disagreements between the Minister and members of the Collegium, the Minister shall independently adopt a decision, with reporting to the Cabinet of Ministers and the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan about the disagreements that have arisen. Members of the Collegium can also communicate their opinion to the Cabinet of Ministers and the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

32. The procedure for the activities of the Collegium shall be determined by its regulations approved by the Collegium.

33. An Appeals Council for pre-trial consideration of appeals shall be created under the Ministry, with respect to legal protection of intellectual property objects, chaired by the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

The Appeals Council shall be composed of independent academics and experts in the field of intellectual property. The number of employees of justice bodies and institutions should not exceed thirty percent of the total number of members of the Appeal Council in its composition.

Other advisory, consultative and expert bodies may be created in the Ministry.

34. The composition of the advisory, consultative and expert bodies created under the Ministry, and the regulations on them shall be approved by the Minister, except for cases when their composition and regulations shall be approved by acts of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and decisions of the Cabinet of Ministers.

Chapter 6. Evaluation Criteria and Performance Indicators of the Efficiency and Effectiveness of the Activities of the Ministry

35. The effectiveness of the activities of the Ministry shall be subject to regular evaluation.

36. Evaluation of the efficiency and effectiveness of the activities of the Ministry shall be based on the evaluation criteria and performance indicators of the effectiveness and efficiency of the activities of the Ministry, approved by the relevant structural divisions of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

37. Based on the results of the evaluation of the efficiency and effectiveness of the activities of the Ministry, the following measures shall be taken:

encouragement (remuneration) or bringing to disciplinary liability of heads and employees of the Ministry;

elimination of identified shortcomings in the activities of the Ministry and further improvement of its activities.

Chapter 7. Financing and Logistical Support of the Activities of the Ministry, Labor Payment and Material Incentives for Its Employees

38. The sources of funding for the activities of the Ministry shall be:

funds of the State budget of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

extra-budgetary funds of justice bodies and institutions;

funds received from the provision of paid services in accordance with legislative acts;

income from the placement of temporarily free funds on deposits in commercial banks;

other sources not prohibited by legislative acts.

39. Financing the expenses for material and technical support of the Ministry and its territorial divisions, as well as labor payment and material incentives for their employees, shall be carried out at the expense of the State budget of the Republic of Uzbekistan, extra-budgetary funds and other funds not prohibited by acts of legislation.

40. The salary of employees of the Ministry shall consists of official salary, bonuses, additional payments, allowances and other payments provided for by acts of legislation.

The Minister may establish personal allowances for high qualifications in the amount of not more than 200 percent of the official salary to highly qualified, initiative employees of the Ministry, fulfilling their official duties efficiently and with integrity, at the expense of extrabudgetary funds of the justice bodies and institutions.

Monthly allowances and incentive payments to official salaries of employees of the Ministry shall be paid in accordance with the regulations approved by the Minister.

41. For employees of the Ministry appointed to another position by decisions of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan or elected (appointed) to the Legislative Chamber, the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, shall remain allowances and additional payments for long service and class rank assigned in the Ministry.

Chapter 8. Reporting of the Ministry

42. The heads of the Ministry shall systematically report on their activities to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the relevant structural divisions of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Cabinet of Ministers.

43. The heads of structural divisions of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan shall constantly monitor the activities of the heads of the Ministry for the effective fulfillment of their tasks, provide an objective evaluation of the effectiveness of the activities of the Ministry.

44. Based on the results of monitoring and evaluation, outstanding particularly leaders, officials and employees of the Ministry shall be encouraged or held accountable for serious shortcomings, up to and including dismissal from their positions.

Chapter 9. Final Provisions

45. Reorganization and liquidation of the Ministry shall be carried out in the manner prescribed by acts of legislation.

ANNEX No. 2 to the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated April 13, 2018 No. PP-3666

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

of the system of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, departments of justice of the regions and the city of Tashkent State Institution “National Legal Information Center “Adolat” Republican Centerfor Forensic Science named after Kh. Sulaymanova Legal Policy Research Institute Tashkent State University of Law State Institution “Center for the Development of Information and Communication Technologies in the Justice Bodies and Institutions” Law Colleges and Academic Lyceum Center for Advanced Training of Lawyers State Institution “Center for Intellectual Property” State Institution “Center for the Development of Public Services”

ANNEX No. 3 to the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated April 13, 2018 No. PP-3666

STRUCTURE

of the Central Office of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Minister Assistant Minister First Deputy Minister Deputy Minister Deputy Minister Deputy Minister Deputy Minister Sub-department of Organizational Control and Strategic Planning 17 Department of Legislation 1 Sub-department of Analysis and Monitoring of the Public Administration System 9 Department of International Legal Cooperation 1 Department of Public Services* 1 Department of Intellectual Property 1 Human Resources Management 10 Sub-department of Criminal, Administrative and Social Legislation 14 Sub-department of Registration of Intellectual Property Objects 7 Sub-department of International Legal Cooperation 9 Sub-department for Control over the Provision of Public Services* 7 Unit for Combating Corruption in the System of the Ministry of Justice 5 Sub-department for the Study of Enforcement of Law Practice 16 Sub-department of Economic Legislation 14 Sub-department of Legal Protection of Industrial Property 12 Sub-department for work with international ratings and indices 6 Public Relations Unit 5 Sub-department for Control over the Execution of Acts of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan 15 Sub-department for Coordinating the Activities of Public Service Centers and Civil Registry Offices* 12 Sub-department of State Registration of Departmental Legal Acts 11 Sub-department of Copyright and Related Rights 8 Sub-department of Arbitration and Litigation 7 Financial and economic Sub-department 12 Sub-department of Analysis and Development of Intellectual Property 7 Sub-department for Human Rights Protection 11 Sub-department for Affairs 10 Sub-department of Systematization of Legislation and Regulatory Impact Assessment 15 Sub-department of Digitalization of Public Services* 12 Sub-department of Legal Services Regulation 17 First Unit 2 Legal Policy Research Institute State Institution “Center for Intellectual Property”** Minister's Advisor one Sub-department of Legal Education and Forensic Science 7 State institution CDICT Sub-department of Non-Governmental Non-Commercial Organizations 12 Sub-department for Development and Implementation of Monitoring of Administrative Procedures* 12 Republican Center for Forensic Science named after Kh. Sulaymanova Sub-department of Legal Propaganda and Education 7 TSUL State Institution “Center for the Development of Public Services”** State Institution “National Legal Information Center “Adolat” CATL

The total limited quantity of administrative personnel is 320 units.

* The staff units of these departments shall be financed from extra-budgetary funds of the justice bodies and institutions.

** The structure and staffing of these state institutions shall be determined by the Minister of Justice.

ANNEX No. 4 to the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated April 13, 2018 No. PP-3666

STRUCTURE

of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Karakalpakstan

Minister of Justice of the Republic of Karakalpakstan Legal College Planning and Efficiency Evaluation Unit 3 First Deputy Minister Deputy Minister Deputy Minister* Unit for the Study of Enforcement of Law Practice 4 Unit for Legal Propaganda and Education 2 Unit for Control over the Provision of Public Services* 3 Department of Human Resources Unit 4 Unit for Human Rights Protection 2 Unit for Non-Governmental Non-Commercial Organizations 3 Unit for economic activity and labor protection 2 Unit for Coordinating the Activities of Public Service Centers and Civil Registry Offices* 4 Unit for control over the execution of acts of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan 2 Legal Services Unit 7 Financial and Economic Unit 4 Public Relations Advisor* 1 Unit for Digitalization of Public Service Centers* 2 Unit for Intellectual Property Rights Protection 2

The total limited quantity of administrative personnel of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Karakalpakstan shall be 49 units.

*The staff units of these departments shall be financed from extra-budgetary funds of the justice bodies and institutions.

ANNEX No. 5 to the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated April 13, 2018 No. PP-3666

STANDARD STRUCTURE

of departments of justice of the regions and the city of Tashkent

Head Legal College Unit for Planning and Efficiency Evaluation 3 First Deputy Head Deputy Head Deputy Head* Unit for the Study of Enforcement of Law Practice 2 — 4 Unit for Legal Propaganda and Education 2 Unit for Control over the Provision of Public Services* 2-3 Department of Human Resources 2 — 4 Unit for Human Rights Protection 2 Unit for Non-Governmental Non-Commercial Organizations 2-3 Department for economic activity and labor protection 2 Unit for Coordinating the Activities of Public Service Centers and Civil Registry Offices* 2 — 4 Unit for control over the execution of acts of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan 2 Legal Services Unit 5 — 7 Financial and Economic Department 4-5 Public Relations Advisor* 1 Unit for Digitalization of Public Service Centers* 1-2 Unit for Intellectual Property Rights Protection 1-2

The total limited quantity of administrative personnel of the departments of justice of the regions and the city of Tashkent shall be 543 units.

* The staff units of these departments shall be financed from extra-budgetary funds of the justice bodies and institutions.

ANNEX No. 6 to the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated April 13, 2018 No. PP-3666

STANDARD STRUCTURE

of justice units of districts (cities)

Head Division for the Protection of Human Rights and the Study of Enforcement of Law Practice 1 — 3 Legal Services Center 3 — 7 Public Services Centers* 3 — 36 Civil Registry Offices 2 — 9 Notaries** Branches

The total limited quantity of administrative personnel of the justice units of districts (cities) shall be 4060 units.

* The staff units of the Center for Public Services shall be financed from extra-budgetary funds of the bodies and institutions of justice.

*** The number of notary offices shall not be included in the total number of justice units of districts (cities)”.

21. In paragraph 10 of the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated July 14, 2018 No. PP-3855 “On additional measures to improve the efficiency of commercialization of the results of scientific and scientific-technical activities”, the words “To the Intellectual Property Agency under the Ministry of Justice” shall be replaced by the words “To the Ministry of Justice” .

22. In paragraph 2 of the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated November 14, 2018 No. PP-4016 “On approval of an international treaty”, the words “Intellectual Property Agency under the Ministry of Justice” shall be replaced by the words “Ministry of Justice”.

23. In the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated February 7, 2019 No. PP-4166 “On additional measures to improve the system of training in the field of crime prevention and public security”:

a) in the fourth paragraph of clause 3, the words “to the Deputy Minister of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan” shall be replaced by the words “to the rector of the Tashkent State Law University”;

b) Item 10 of Appendix No. 2 shall be deleted.

24. In the resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated July 1, 2019 No. PP-4380 “On measures to organize the activities of the Agency for Intellectual Property under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan”:

a) paragraphs 1 , 2 , 4 — 6 , subparagraphs "a", "b", "d" of paragraph 3, as well as Appendix No. 1 to the Resolution, paragraphs three - seven of subparagraph "b" of paragraph 2 of Appendix No. 2 shall be recognized as invalid ;

b) in subparagraph "c" of paragraph 3 the words "to the Agency's off-budget fund" shall be replaced by the words "to the Fund for the Development of Intellectual Property of the Ministry of Justice";

c) from the third paragraph of subparagraph "a" of paragraph 9 the words "and the Agency" shall be deleted;

d) clause 10 shall be stated as follows:

"To transfer to the Ministry of Justice free of charge on the basis of the right of operational management the building located at the address: Tashkent city, Mustakillik Avenue, 59."

25. In Appendix No. 1 to the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated September 20, 2019 No. PP-4464 “On measures for the widespread introduction of information and communication technologies in the construction sector”:

a) the fourteenth paragraph shall be deleted;

b) the fifteenth and sixteenth paragraphs shall be considered as the fourteenth-fifteenth paragraphs, respectively.

26. In the fourth paragraph of paragraph 16 of the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated October 3, 2019 No. PP-4471 “On measures to improve the quality and role of economic research in socio-economic development”, the words “Intellectual Property Agency under the Ministry” shall be replaced by the word “Ministry”.

27. In the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated November 2, 2019 No. PP-4505 “On measures to improve the efficiency of the implementation of legislative acts based on modern legal monitoring mechanisms”:

a) from paragraph 8 the words “at meetings of the Presidium of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan” shall be excluded;

b) Clause 12 and Appendix No. 2 to the resolution shall be recognized as invalid;

c) in the Regulations on the procedure for conducting legal monitoring of the implementation of regulatory legal acts:

in the third paragraph of clause 11 the words “at a meeting of the Presidium of the Cabinet” shall be replaced by the words “in the Cabinet”;

from paragraph 25 the words “at the Presidium of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan” shall be excluded;

in appendix:

in the column "Activities" of the 3rd stage, the words "at a meeting of the Presidium of the Cabinet" shall be replaced by the words "in the Cabinet";

in the column "Activities" of the 8th stage, the words "at a meeting of the Presidium of the Cabinet" shall be replaced by the words "in the Cabinet".

28. In the column “Name of payers” of position 53 of Appendix No. 1 to the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated June 22, 2020 No. PP-4756 “On measures to improve the procedure for fulfilling obligations arising from international treaties and membership of the Republic of Uzbekistan in international organizations” the words “ Intellectual Property Agency" shall be replaced by the words "Ministry of Justice".

29. In the section “V. Improving certain statistical areas and methodologies” of the National Strategy for the Development of Statistics of the Republic of Uzbekistan in 2020 — 2025, approved by the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated August 3, 2020 No. PP-4796, the words “Public Services Agencies under the Ministry of Justice” shall be replaced by the words “Ministries of Justice”.

30. In paragraph five of clause 7 of the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated August 4, 2020 No. PP-4797 “On additional measures to automate the procedures for providing state social services and assistance to the population”, the words “To the Public Services Agency under the Ministry” shall be replaced by the words “To the Ministry”.

31. In the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated November 17, 2020 No. PP-4895 “On measures to implement the provisions of the Convention on Legal Assistance and Legal Relations in Civil, Family and Criminal Matters of January 22, 1993 and the Convention on Legal Assistance and Legal Relations in civil, family and criminal cases of October 7, 2002”:

a) in the column "Name of the authorized body" of position 5 of Appendix No. 1 , the words "Public Services Agency under the Ministry of Justice" shall be deleted;

b) in the column "Name of the authorized body" of position 5 of Appendix No. 2 , the words "Public Services Agency under the Ministry of Justice" shall be deleted.

32. In the column "Responsible executors" of positions 3 — 7, 9 and 12 of Appendix No. 2 to the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated November 25, 2020 No. PP-4899 "On comprehensive measures to develop biotechnology and improve the country's biological security system" the words " Agency for Intellectual Property (Sagdullaev)," shall be deleted.

33. In the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated March 15, 2021 No. PP-5025 “On measures to further improve the regulatory impact assessment system”:

a) the first subparagraph of paragraph 1 shall be stated in the following wording:

“To take note that within the framework of the implementation of the regulatory impact assessment system, as a rule, public discussion of draft normative legal acts of great economic and socio-political importance has been established”;

b) in paragraph 13 of the Regulations on the procedure for assessing the regulatory impact of draft normative legal acts and adopted normative legal acts, the words “Draft” and “mandatory” shall be replaced, respectively, with the words “Draft of great economic and socio-political significance” and “,usually,”.

34. Items 10 and 11 of the section “IV. Agencies” of Annex No. 2 to the Regulation on the procedure for developing, monitoring and evaluating performance indicators for the activities of deputy heads of ministries, state committees, other government bodies and business associations, approved by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated July 22, 2021 No. PP-5189, shall be excluded.

35. In the fourth subparagraph of paragraph 3 and in subparagraph "c" of paragraph 7 of the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated October 22, 2021 No. PP-5263 "On measures to further improve the conduct of anti-corruption examination of normative legal acts and their drafts" the words "January 20" replace with the words "March 20".

36. From paragraph 8 of Appendix No. 2 to the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated November 23, 2021 No. PP-20 “On measures to develop family business in horticulture and viticulture, increase the share of dekhkan farms in agricultural production” the words “and the Public Services Agency under the Ministry” shall be excluded.

37. In the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated December 21, 2021 No. PP-57 “On additional measures to comprehensively support persons with disabilities, promote their employment and further increase social activity”:

a) in clause 7 :

in the first paragraph of subparagraph “a”, the words “To the Public Services Agency (U. Mukhammadiyev)” shall be replaced by the words “To the Ministry of Justice (R. Davletov)”;

in subparagraph “b”, the words “Public Services Agency (U. Mukhammadiev)” shall be replaced by the words “Ministry of Justice (R. Davletov)”;

b) in subparagraph “d” of paragraph 9 the words “To the Public Services Agency (U. Mukhammadiev)” shall be replaced by the words “To the Ministry of Justice (R. Davletov)”.

38. In the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated January 28, 2022 No. PP-105 “On measures to introduce a unified system of interdepartmental electronic interaction in pre-trial proceedings”:

a) Clause 20 of Annex No. 1 shall be recognized as invalid;

b) in the column "Responsible executors" of position 4 of Appendix No. 2 , the words "Agency for Intellectual Property (T. Abdusattorov)" shall be deleted.

39. In subparagraph four of paragraph 2 of the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated February 8, 2022 No. PP-123 “On measures to accelerate the reform of public institutions”, the words “To the Public Services Agency under the Ministry” shall be replaced by the word “Ministry”.

40. In the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers dated June 11, 2018 No. 442 “On measures to organize the activities of the Legal Policy Research Institute under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan”:

a) clause 3 shall be stated in the following wording:

“3. To approve the structure of the Legal Policy Research Institute under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan with a maximum total number of administrative personnel of 25 units in accordance with the appendix”;

b) the appendix shall be stated in the following wording:

“APPENDIX to the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of June 11, 2018 No. 442

STRUCTURE

of the Legal Policy Research Institute under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Director Deputy Director* – Unit for the Study of Legal Regulation in the Judicial-Legal and Law Enforcement Spheres 5 Chief Accountant 1 Senior ICT Specialist 1 Unit for the Study of Legal Regulation of Relations in the Social Sphere 5 Common department 2 Unit for the Study of Legal Regulation of Relations in the Economic Sphere 5 Leading Public Relations Specialist 1 Chief Specialist for International Cooperation 1 Unit for the Study of Public Administration Efficiency 3

The total limited quantity of administrative personnel shall be 25 units.

* The introduction of the position of deputy director in this column shall be conditional, and the deputy director, in accordance with the order of the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan, may be appointed as the head of the relevant unit. In this respect, there shall be no need to make appropriate amendments to this structure.

ANNEX No. 3 to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated March 17, 2022 No. DP-89

LIST

of certain acts of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, recognized as invalid

1. Paragraphs 2, 3, 5 — 7 of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated December 12, 2017 No. UP-5278 “On measures to radically reform the national system for the provision of public services to the population”, as well as Appendix No. 1 to this Decree.

2. Paragraph 14 of Appendix No. 1 to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated July 11, 2018 No. UP-5475 “On the introduction of amendments and additions, as well as the invalidation of certain acts of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan”.

4. Subparagraphs “a” and “c” of paragraph 14 of Appendix No. 1 to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated February 1, 2019 No. UP-5650 “On the introduction of amendments and additions, as well as the invalidation of certain acts of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan”.

5. Position 6 of Annex No. 2 to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated October 8, 2019 No. UP-5847 “On approval of the concept for the development of the higher education system of the Republic of Uzbekistan until 2030”.

6. Clause 4 of Annex No. 4 to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated January 31, 2020 No. UP-5930 “On additional measures to accelerate the development of the national system for the provision of public services”.

7. Paragraph three of clause 6 to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated May 19, 2020 No. UP-5997 “On measures to further improve the activities of justice bodies and institutions in the implementation of state legal policy”, as well as positions 5 and 64 of Appendix No. 2, Appendix No. 5 and paragraph 8 of Appendix No. 7 to the Decree.

8. Clauses 21 and 32 of Annex No. 1 to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated July 8, 2020 No. UP-6021 “On amendments, as well as invalidation of certain acts of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan”.

9. Clause 4 of Annex No. 2 to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated August 18, 2020 No. UP-6042 “On additional measures to further develop the export and investment potential of the republic”.

10. Position 24 of Appendix No. 2 to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated March 4, 2021 No. UP-6181 “On approval of the concept for the development of civil society in 2021 — 2025”.

11. Clause 37 of Annex No. 1 to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated March 17, 2021 No. UP-6188 “On the introduction of amendments and additions, as well as the invalidation of certain acts of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan”.

12. Paragraphs 17 and 97 of Appendix No. 2, positions 11, 28, 29 and 35 of Appendix No. 3 , as well as position 6 of Appendix No. 5 to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated April 30, 2021 No. UP-6218 “On measures to comprehensively systematize the national bases of legislation.

13. Clause 21 of Annex No. 3 to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated June 28, 2021 No. UP-6252 “On approval of the Strategy for the development of the national system of the Republic of Uzbekistan to combat the legalization of proceeds from crime, the financing of terrorism and the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction”.

14 . Paragraph 9 of the annex to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated July 17, 2021 No. UP-6263 “On amendments and additions to some acts of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan”.

15. Paragraph five of paragraph 3 to the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated January 3, 2007 No. PP-553 “On measures to implement the investment project “Equipment of the housing stock of the Republic of Uzbekistan with cold and hot water meters”, as well as Appendix No. 4 to it.

16. Clause 6 of Annex No. 3 to the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated May 26, 2017 No. PP-3009 “On additional measures to improve the efficiency of Uztadbirkorexport JSC”.

17. Paragraphs 2 and 4 of the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated February 8, 2019 No. PP-4168 “On measures to improve public administration in the field of intellectual property”.

18. Paragraph three of clause 3 to the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated February 15, 2019 No. PP-4193 “On measures for the further integrated development of the national system for the provision of public services”, as well as Appendix No. 2 to it.

19. Paragraph 4 of the annex to the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated September 19, 2019 No. PP-4461 “On amendments and additions to some resolutions of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan”.

20. Paragraph 3 of the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated March 10, 2020 No. PP-4635 “On the introduction of the post of Deputy Prime Minister for Investments and Foreign Economic Relations — Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade into the structure of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan”.

22. Position 7 of Annex No. 1 , as well as paragraph 1 of Annex No. 3 to the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated January 28, 2021 No. PP-4965 “On measures to improve the system for the protection of intellectual property objects”.

23. Paragraphs 16 and 17 of Appendix No. 1 to the Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated January 12, 2022 No. PP-81 “On measures to introduce a rating system for assessing the effectiveness of anti-corruption work”.