PRESIDENTIAL DECREE OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

of September 8, 2025 No. UP-161

About measures for strengthening of responsibility and initiative of the ministries and departments in increase in efficiency of legal support of reforms and regulation of the public relations

For the purpose of timely and effective legal regulation of the public relations, strengthening of the legal basis of reforms, increase in responsibility and initiative of state bodies, and also realization of the tasks determined by the Presidential decree of the Republic of Uzbekistan of July 14, 2025 No. UP-111 "About Measures for Increase in Efficiency, Pro-activity and Effectiveness in System of Public Administration" I decide:

I. Purposes

1. Determine main objectives of enhancement of organization-legal bases of rule-making activities:

(a) operational ensuring realization of the performed reforms, timely and effective legal regulation of the public relations, elimination of legal gaps, and also implementation of more effective system of rule-making activities;

(b) increase in institutional independence of the ministries and departments, ensuring maintaining pro-active policy by them by expansion of practice of determination of legal mechanisms by means of departmental regulatory legal acts (further - departmental acts);

(c) eradication of administrative bureaucracy and the complicated procedures by simplification of procedures of conducting examination and coordination of drafts of departmental acts.

II. Implementation of the new procedure for rule-making activities directed to efficiency

2. Determine that:

(a) the ministries and departments if according to legal acts, decrees and resolutions of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and also resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers to them confer powers on implementation of state policy in the respective sphere, can adopt departmental acts;

(b) for adoption of departmental acts specific specifying of powers of adoption of the relevant act in the regulatory legal acts having higher legal force is not required;

(c) the ministries and departments within power on implementation of state policy perform function of legal regulation;

(d) in case of adoption of the laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan, acts of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan on new reforms, the ministries and departments for their implementation can quickly adopt departmental acts;

(e) state registration in the Ministry of Justice of the departmental acts adopted in pursuance of the laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan, orders in acts of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Government is the basis for removal from control of these orders in the Ijro.gov.uz system;

(g) committees, the agencies and the inspections subordinated to the ministries and departments if power on implementation of state policy in the respective sphere is assigned to them, can adopt departmental acts which if necessary are also approved with higher body;

(h) inclusion in departmental acts, the cases except for determined by the legislation, regulations which is not allowed:

(i) establish new privileges, and also responsibility measures for physical persons and legal entities;

(ii) it is groundless complicate the operating procedures, limit the rights and freedoms of citizens;

(iii) implement unreasonable additional costs and payments, new types of tax and charges, licensed, allowing and notifying procedures;

(i) for the purpose of non-admission of excessive legal regulation of the public relations before project development of the departmental act are studied urgent need in adoption of the document and possibility of elimination of problem by means of other alternative decisions without adoption of this act;

(j) according to drafts of all departmental acts public discussion, except for drafts of the departmental acts providing reduction in compliance with requirements of the adopted new acts of the legislation and containing the data carried to the state secrets is without fail carried out;

(k) in case of project development of the laws and acts of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan at the same time departmental acts, necessary for their realization, are also prepared and introduced together with the project in higher instances.

3. Determine that the following strict requirements for terms of acceptance, conducting legal examination and state registration of departmental acts are established:

(a) the term of adoption of departmental acts if the laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan, by acts of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Government do not establish longer term, - two months;

(b) the term of carrying out public discussion of the draft of the departmental act - 10 days if within 5 days according to the draft of offers did not arrive, its entering into the Ministry of Justice for conducting legal examination will be possible;

(c) the term of conducting legal examination and state registration of departmental acts in the Ministry of Justice is reduced from 30 days to 20 days, prolongation of term of consideration of the acts requiring additional studying is reduced from 15 days to 10 days;

(d) the term of refusal by the Ministry of Justice in state registration of the departmental acts introduced without observance of the established requirements is reduced from 30 days to 15 days.

4. In case of state registration of departmental acts:

(a) state registration of departmental acts is performed by the Ministry of Justice by completion (editing) in the following cases:

(i) for the purpose of reduction in compliance with the Constitution and the laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan, other regulatory legal acts having higher legal force;

(ii) in case of need of reduction in compliance with rules of the legislative equipment;

(iii) in case of failure to provide of justification and feasibility of application of referential regulations;

(b) state registration of the modifed (edited) act is allowed in case of provision of consent of the first head of the ministry or department which adopted this act, in writing or by means of electronic system;

(c) the mark about cancellation of the departmental act is automatically fixed in electronic system from the moment of signing of the conclusion of the Ministry of Justice about refusal in state registration, at the same time adoption of the separate act of their cancellation is not required;

() power of refusal in state registration for completion of drafts of the departmental acts which were the reason of reasonable objections of physical persons and legal entities in the course of carrying out public discussion is conferred to the Ministry of Justice.

5. For the purpose of elimination of legal gaps in the legislation, and also operational and complete reduction of departmental acts in compliance with the acts of the legislation having higher legal force:

(a) to approve the Program of adoption of regulatory legal acts for ensuring implementation of some acts of the legislation with mechanisms for 2025-2026 (further - the Program) according to appendix *;

(b) to note the personal responsibility of the first heads of the ministries and departments for the effective and timely organization of execution of the Program;

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