PRESIDENTIAL DECREE OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

of April 21, 2025 No. UP-71

About measures of the effective organization of execution of the priority tasks determined for further enhancement of system of anti-corruption

For the purpose of ensuring execution of the priority tasks determined at the enlarged meeting of National council by anti-corruption on March 5 the current year, and also broad mobilization of the public, parliament and institutes of civil society on the solution of the matter by implementation of new system on anti-corruption I decide:

1. Approve the List of the developed regulatory legal acts and the Program of practical measures for ensuring execution of the orders determined at the enlarged meeting of National council by anti-corruption on March 5, 2025 according to appendices No. No. 1 and 2*.

Assign to heads of the ministries and departments the personal responsibility for high-quality, timely and unconditional accomplishment of the tasks determined in this Decree and appendices to it.

2. Annually by regions to provide to national council on anti-corruption together with the Chairman of the board of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, hokimama of areas and the city of Tashkent, prosecutors and chiefs of law-enforcement bodies approval and control of execution of "Road map" according to the prevention and anti-corruption, including suppression of household corruption, forming of the atmosphere of the irreconcilable relation to corruption.

3. For the purpose of cardinal increase in role of parliament in anti-corruption and crime to recommend to chambers of Oliy Majlis:

(a) annually in three ministries and departments receiving the greatest amount of means from the budget to determine corruption factors, to make offers on their elimination;

(b) to establish in legal acts procedure for protection of the specific plan for anti-corruption by candidates for positions of the minister and hokim by consideration of their candidates respectively in Legislative house of Oliy Majlis and Kengashakh of People's Deputies;

(c) to study the international experience, to develop offers on creation of the strong legal base of effective anti-corruption in cyberspace;

(d) by creation of working groups of representatives of responsible departments within "Week of fight against crime" in 1 - 5 numbers of every month on the basis of the plan to leave in waved, belonging to the "red" category, to perform the deep analysis of the reasons of making of crimes in them, to make recommendations about increase in efficiency of activities of prosecutors and chiefs of law-enforcement bodies of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, areas and the city of Tashkent, areas (cities), and also to develop suggestions for improvement of the laws on the basis of the initiatives announced at the level of areas (cities) and makhally.

4. Organize activities of sectors for complex social and economic development of regions on the basis of the following new procedure:

(a) prosecutors, heads of law-enforcement bodies and tax authorities are exempted from the tasks assigned to them on activities of sectors;

(b) responsible for work of sectors deputy prime ministers, Association makhally Uzbekistan and its territorial subdivisions are determined.

To the Cabinet of Ministers to introduce the draft of the resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan providing implementation of activities of sectors on the basis of new procedure to two-month time.

5. Determine that for the purpose of prevention of corruption factors in economy:

(a) the officials who conducted procurements with violation of the most admissible threshold of difference between the price of goods and the services acquired on public procurements and their average market price are made responsible;

(b) since July 1, 2025 the international anti-corruption standards take root into large investment projects, and also procedure for conducting examination of conditions of large auction on competitiveness;

(c) the scope the National information system "Transparent Construction" (further - the Transparent Construction system) which will take root step by step into projects with participation of the international organizations even more extends.

6. For the purpose of the effective organization of execution of the orders determined in Item 5 of this Decree:

(a) To the Ministry of Economics and finance in two-month time:

(i) develop and introduce the bill providing responsibility for violation of certain requirements for the price of the goods and services acquired on public procurements;

(ii) jointly with Audit Chamber, Department on fight against economic crimes under the Prosecutor General's Office to strengthen requirements for purchase of fixed assets by budgetary and extrabudgetary funds;

(iii) jointly with Audit Chamber to introduce the draft of the resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan on reducing at least twice types of goods (works, services) which are purchased by the state customers under direct agreements;

(b) To the ministry of investments, industry and trade, Committee on development of the competition and consumer protection together with anti-corruption Agency in three-months time to introduce to the Cabinet of Ministers the draft of the order of the Government determining assessment procedures of large investment projects on the basis of the international anti-corruption standards and conducting examination of conditions of large auction on competitiveness;

(c) To the Ministry of Economics and finance, to the Ministry of investments, industry and trade together with international financial institutions till the end of 2025 to take measures of attraction of subporyadchik for the international tender objects by means of the Transparent Construction system, carrying out the local tenders worth up to 2 million US dollars financed by international financial institutions in the Transparent Construction system, and also implementations of procedure for accomplishment by the foreign contract organizations attracted according to the international tenders, at least 60 percent of contractual cost with own forces;

() to the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services to create in the Transparent Construction system the corresponding opportunities for implementation of this system in projects with participation of the international organizations.

7. To the Cabinet of Ministers till January 1, 2026 to implement system of assessment by the population of all state services provided by the ministries and departments, local khokimiyats by areas (cities).

At the same time to establish the personal responsibility of heads of the ministries, departments, and also hokim of areas (cities) providing the state services estimated by the population as is "unsatisfactory".

8. To the Ministry of Justice:

(a) in a month together with the Ministry of digital technologies to start the online platform on the basis of artificial intelligence giving opportunity by means of the mobile phone to receive answers in available and convenient form to the questions arising in everyday life of the population;

(b) together with the Ministry of digital technologies in three-months time to develop and introduce to the Cabinet of Ministers the draft of the order of the Government providing implementation of new system of assessment by the population of all state services provided by the ministries and departments, local khokimiyats by areas (cities);

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