Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Dec. 21
By Diana Aliyeva - Trend:
Uzbekistan's Senate has approved the Administrative Procedures Act.
The act will enforce law and improve transparency in relations between public agencies and citizens and legal entities; it will serve toward better public services based on modern technology.
The document was looked into by the plenary session of the upper chamber of the parliament.
According to the Parliament Information Service, the senators stressed that the act goes for implementation of modern organization and legal framework in the activities of the executive authorities, improved techniques of inter-departmental control, elimination of formalism and abuse in public administration.
The act will boost efficiency of public services, integration of modern procedures of enforcement of rights and legal interests of individuals and legal persons.
The act sets the general regulations of administrative procedures, particularly the main principles of execution of administrative procedures reflecting cooperation between public agencies, citizens, and organizations.
The act sets the order of administrative proceedings and decision-making, framework for cancellation, change, or invalidation of administrative acts, general principles of appeal.
The act provides for jurisdiction of administrative cases, inter-departmental cooperation, representation, legal succession, evidence, periods, and charges of administrative procedure.
The act details categories of participants of administrative procedure, and those involved in resolution of administrative cases, their rights and obligations.