PRESIDENTIAL DECREE OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

of November 3, 2025 No. UP-207

About complex measures for effective protection of health of the population and gene pool of the nation from drug addiction and drug-related crimes

For the purpose of determination of complex measures for achievement of the priority purposes of National strategy for fight against drug addiction and drug-related crimes in the Republic of Uzbekistan for 2024 - 2028, effective protection of the population, first of all health of youth, and nation gene pool by means of removal on qualitatively new activity level on fight against drug addiction and organized narcocrime I decide:

I. Purposes and priority tasks

1. Determine main objectives of this Decree:

(a) determination of complex of the normative and legal, operational and preventive and organizational and educational measures directed to fight against defect of the drug addiction posing serious health hazard of the population of Uzbekistan and to nation gene pool and also liquidation of the organized narcocrime which is to that the reason;

(b) separate determination of comprehensive protection of the future of minors and youth from drugs and psychotropic substances as urgent task of state bodies, organizations and organizations of all levels, and also cardinal increase in their responsibility in this direction.

2. Determine priority tasks of the state bodies and organizations responsible for implementation of activities for the early prevention and resolute fight against drug addiction and drug-related crimes:

(a) complex implementation of effective measures on complete suppression of distribution of psychoactive agents in educational institutions, among pupils and students, and also to forming at youth of the irreconcilable relation to drug addiction;

(b) elimination of drug trafficking, psychotropic and strong substances (further - drugs) by means of strict criminal legal mechanisms, cardinal strengthening of measures of punishment in this direction, and also toughening of responsibility for the drug-related crimes committed concerning youth;

(c) establishing the large-scale operational search and investigative activities directed to identification of routes of import of drugs through border of the republic, actions of their distribution by means of the Internet, illegal drug labs and narcocriminal societies including patronizing them officials, suppression of their activities and ensuring inevitability of punishment;

(d) establishment of tough state control of turnover of chemicals (precursors) which can be used for production of drugs, implementation of digital decisions in practice of control of activities of the medical institutions, the pharmaceutical companies and drugstores using drugs in the medical purposes;

(e) determination of the address measures directed to radical enhancement of system of diagnostics, treatment and medico-social resettlement of drug addiction and toxicomania among the population especially minor and youth.

II. Enhancement of normative legal mechanisms

3. To the Ministry of Internal Affairs (A. Tashpulatov) together with the interested ministries and departments until the end of 2025 on the basis of complex studying of the flowing the practician, modern requirements and the best foreign practices to develop and introduce in accordance with the established procedure the bill "About Drugs and Psychotropic Substances" in the new edition, the regulation of drug trafficking determining mechanisms, and also specific responsibility of state bodies and organizations in the prevention and disclosure of drug-related crimes.

4. Approve the offers of the Prosecutor General's Office, the Supreme Court, Service of state security, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Customs committee providing:

(a) introduction in the Criminal code of the separate new Section "Crimes against Health of the Population and Gene Pool of the Nation" for the purpose of raising on absolutely new activity level on fight against organized narcocrime by means of criminal legal mechanisms;

(b) proceeding from new forms, methods and degree of organization of drug-related crimes introduction of the criminal liability providing determination of custodial sanction up to twenty years for the following acts:

(i) the organization and ensuring activities of narcocriminal society, and also sale of drugs by organized group with cross-border methods or with use of the Internet;

(ii) the protection rendered to drug trafficking by abuse of authority of the power (ex-officio full powers) or information transfer for the purpose of the prevention of disclosure of such crimes;

(iii) creation of illegal drug lab and ensuring conducting its activities;

(c) introduction of the administrative responsibility providing application of administrative detention up to fifteen days for the use of drugs in public places;

(d) for the purpose of the prevention of making and repeated making of drug-related crimes toughening of measures of criminal liability to the double size for the following acts:

(i) production, conversion, acquisition, storage, transportation or transfer of drugs with their sales objective in large sizes, and also their illegal sale in any manner in large sizes;

(ii) introduction into circulation of strong substances in educational institutions, places of detention, with use of the Internet, dangerous or especially dangerous recidivist, and also their smuggling in large sizes;

(iii) making of illicit trafficking (without sales objective) in large size and repeated illicit trafficking in separate categories of strong substances;

(iv) involvement in the use of drugs in any form which entailed the death of the person or other heavy consequences;

(e) for the purpose of protection of minors and youth from drug-related crimes:

(i) recognition as aggravating circumstance of criminal liability of making of any drug-related crime concerning minors or with their attraction;

(ii) establishment of direct criminal liability for involvement of the minor in the use of strong substances;

(iii) toughening of measures of criminal liability to the double size for sale of strong substances in the educational organizations, student residences, children's camps or in the territories adjoining to them;

(iv) introduction of the criminal liability prescribing custodial sanction up to ten years for involvement of minors in the use of strong substances in the educational organizations, student residences, children's camps or in the territories adjoining to them;

(g) implementation of procedure for non-use of parole from serving sentence concerning persons who made some types of drug-related crimes.

5. The commissions on pardon questions in case of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan when studying addresses of convicts concerning pardon to pay special attention on gravity of danger to the state, society and the personality, and also possibility of approach of especially heavy consequences of any crime committed against population gene pool.

III. Determination and ensuring execution of complex measures

6. Approve the National program of complex practical actions for the early prevention and fight against drug addiction and drug-related crimes for 2025-2026 (further - the National program) according to appendix No. 1.

7. To provide to the responsible ministries and departments, Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, khokimiyats of areas and the city of Tashkent development of quarterly "road maps" on the address organization of execution of the National program by the industry directions and regions.

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