This December 9, the Committee for Combating Corruption and Judicial-Legal Issues of the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis held a meeting addressing the National Anti-Corruption Report of the Anti-Corruption Agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Umida Tukhtasheva, Deputy Director of the Anti-Corruption Agency, provided information on the measures taken to identify and systematically analyze corruption risks and eliminate the factors causing them.

In particular, the legal framework for combating corruption has been improved. Over the past 5 years, more than 80 regulatory legal acts aimed at suppressing corruption factors have been adopted, including more than 10 acts regulating the sphere of combating corruption.

The National Anti-Corruption Council and its regional councils, government agencies and organizations, including the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, regional administrations and the Tashkent city administration, have established the work of internal anti-corruption control units.

On the basis of the Legislation Free from Corruption principle, a procedure for conducting anti-corruption expertise of regulatory legal acts and their drafts was introduced, and it was also determined that the current regulatory legal acts will be gradually subjected to anti-corruption expertise.

In the regions and areas (spheres) with high corruption risks, a number of projects are being implemented, including the Sphere without Corruption Project (in capital construction, higher education, healthcare, banking and public procurement systems), the Region without Corruption Project (in Davlatobod and Karshi Districts) and the Transparent Region Project (in Ferghana Region).

In addition, on June 16, 2021, the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan signed a Decree No.6247, which approved the List of 33 types of socially significant information to be posted as open data.

In Corruption Perception Index by Transparency International, Uzbekistan rose by 7 points in 2020 compared to 2019 and by 6 points in 2021, achieving a stable increase in the Index for 5 years in a row.

The Deputy Director also provided information on proposals to combat corruption and prevent it, put forward by the Agency in the National Report. Those include the implementation of Establishing the Virtual Anti-Corruption Academy Project, aimed at constantly increasing the knowledge of the population and civil servants in the field of combating corruption, continuing the implementation of the Sphere without Corruption Project and the Region without Corruption Project in regions and areas with a high corruption risk, increasing effectiveness of the internal anti-corruption control system, expansion of the Open, Transparent and Accountable Region Project and  the Open, Transparent and Accountable Ministry Project, aimed at ensuring the openness of the activities of government agencies and organizations.

The meeting participants gave a positive assessment of the work carried out by the Agency over the past period, and noted the expediency of a wider use of the media, civil society institutions, NGOs in the formation of an uncompromising attitude towards corruption in society.

Following the event, a number of recommendations were developed to improve the sphere.

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