RESOLUTION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

of April 4, 2023 No. PP-110

About the additional measures aimed at providing the population with high-quality consumer goods

For the purpose of the ensuring consumer protection, suppression of the facts of production and turnover which is not certified, counterfeit, with the expired storage duration and goods, unsuitable to the use, providing the population with high-quality consumer goods:

1. Approve the offers of the Prosecutor General's Office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Justice providing:

strengthening of responsibility for the act connected with illicit trafficking in the goods which are not meeting safety requirements of life or health of consumers;

establishment of responsibility for the act connected with illicit trafficking in ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and tobacco products proceeding from the level of public danger;

strengthening of the administrative responsibility for violation of the sanitary legislation and veterinary, veterinary health regulations;

strengthening of responsibility for illegal use of someone else's trademark, service mark, geographical specifying, the name of the place of the goods origin, sign similar to it to extent of mixing of designations, or uses of others trade name;

establishment to subjects of entrepreneurship at which the license is cancelled or is stopped implementation of activities (actions) in notifying procedure in connection with gross violation of the established requirements and conditions, restrictions for occupation with types of activity according to appendix No. 1.

To the Prosecutor General's Office together with the Supreme Court, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Justice and other interested departments in three-months time to introduce in Legislative house of Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan the relevant bill on the questions provided in this Item.

2. Implement the following procedure for strengthening of public control in the ensuring consumer protection, suppression of the facts of production and turnover which is not certified, counterfeit, with the expired storage duration and goods, unsuitable to the use:

addresses are accepted by means of the Unified information system and are considered by competent authorities in short terms according to appendix No. 2;

persons who reported about offenses are rewarded;

the confiscated food, alcoholic and tobacco products which are not meeting safety requirements are destroyed in the presence of representatives of the public and mass media.

To the Cabinet of Ministers in week time to approve procedure for acceptance and consideration of the addresses provided in appendix No. 2, by means of the Unified information system and also remunerations of persons who reported about offenses.

3. Determine that:

since July 1, 2023 products of sparkling and natural wines are not marked by excise stamps;

since August 1, 2023 availability of the registration certificate in accordance with the established procedure of trademarks of alcoholic products the Ministry of Justice is the licensed requirement in case of production of alcoholic products;

since September 1, 2023 wholesale and retail trade by tobacco products, wholesale trade are performed by beer products according to the procedure of the notification, except for the subjects having the license or the notification for wholesale and retail trade by alcoholic products;

making in the fixed territory of the facts connected with production of goods, counterfeit and unsuitable to the use, is one of criteria for evaluation of activities of inspectors on prevention of law-enforcement bodies.

4. Establish procedure according to which:

realization of the part of the food and technical ethyl alcohol acquired at the exchange biddings exceeding own needs is performed only through the exchange biddings;

in cases of exceeding of amount of the food and technical ethyl alcohol acquired at the exchange biddings within year, 110 percent from the need for food and technical ethyl alcohol to annual production capacity of subjects of entrepreneurship, the Committee on development of the competition and consumer protection together with the relevant competent authorities with the notification of the Comissioner for the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan on protection of the rights and legitimate interests of subjects of entrepreneurship studies with departure into place target use of food and technical ethyl alcohol by these subjects of entrepreneurship.

5. To committee on development of the competition and consumer protection to record the needs for food and technical ethyl alcohol on annual production capacity of subjects of entrepreneurship and amounts of the food and technical ethyl alcohol acquired through the exchange biddings.

6. To the Ministry of Economics and finance together with the Ministry of investments, the industry and trade:

take measures for integration of the National information system of monitoring of marking and tracking of products of "Asl belgisi" with the Platform of digital data of the Electronic Government system and to provision of opportunity to law enforcement and competent state bodies to use information containing in it;

take measures in accordance with the established procedure to the subjects of entrepreneurship who did not fulfill requirements and conditions of the license (notification) and to quarterly publish for the public results through mass media;

till June 1, 2023 to take measures for introduction of new samples of excise stamps on alcoholic and tobacco products;

in two-month time licenses, allowing documents or notifying activities (actions) (are stopped) to develop and introduce to the Cabinet of Ministers the draft of the resolution providing procedure for sale of not arrested sold products and raw materials for production of subjects of entrepreneurship at which are suspended, cancelled.

7. To the Ministry of Justice for the purpose of suppression of turnover of counterfeit goods in three-months time to develop and bring in the Cabinet of Ministers procedure of test purchases concerning the offenses connected with violation of the rights to intellectual property items.

8. To the Prosecutor General's Office to introduce in Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan relevant proposals on enhancement of procedure for conducting the checks connected with implementation of the investigation and search operations aimed at providing consumer protection, suppression of the facts of production and the turnover which is not certified counterfeit with the expired storage duration and goods, unsuitable to the use, in a month.

9. Recommend to National broadcasting company of Uzbekistan and National news agency of Uzbekistan:

together with Committee on development of the competition and consumer protection, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of investments, industry and trade to enhance the telecast "Quality control" by the address of special attention to illumination of difference of low-quality and counterfeit goods from the goods suitable for the use, and their negative impact on health of the person;

show the videos which are written down by the representatives of the initiative public exercising quality control on all TV channels.

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