President Mirziyoyev returned a payment-sector reform law to parliament, and deputies voted to drop it entirely — without debate or disclosure of which provisions he opposed.
Presidential Decree No. PQ-380 grants the newly appointed Education and Science Minister direct-hire authority for central staff until February 2027, as Uzbekistan consolidates two former ministries into one.
A Ministry of Justice regulation registered on 20 October 2026 requires banks to open dedicated accounts for businesses in insolvency, freezing ordinary debit operations and centralising fund management under court-appointed administrators.
More than 720 Tashkent apartment buildings were constructed without architectural permits, Construction Minister Sherzod Khidoyatov told parliament. The cases are under Prosecutor General oversight as authorities digitise controls and allocate 520 billion soums for residential-area improvements.
Uzbekistan’s Central Bank has restructured its financial regulatory sandbox, adding three testing tracks, opening applications to foreign firms, and requiring consumer disclosures on trial-stage services.
Construction minister Sherzod Khidoyatov told parliament that 4,973 lifts have exceeded their service life, while a presidential decree orders nearly 5,000 units repaired or replaced by 2030 and a new digital platform now gates occupancy certificates on lift compliance.
A revised law signed by President Mirziyoyev on 14 October requires Uzbekistan’s Constitutional Court to livestream hearings and introduce digital case management by 1 January 2028, while imposing strict new procedural deadlines and an annual accountability report to parliament.
The ADB’s representative in Uzbekistan says the bank will prioritise semiconductor manufacturing and special economic zones over traditional infrastructure, aiming to help the doubly landlocked country offset steep export transport costs.
Wizz Air will place Uzbek-speaking staff on all its Uzbekistan flights in 2025 after the Competition Committee investigated a passenger who was refused safety information in his language and treated rudely when he asked for it.
Supreme audit officials from Uzbekistan and Latvia met in Riga on 18 August 2026 at a high-level forum with EU Eastern Partnership institutions, reaffirming a cooperation framework that has grown from training workshops into a multi-year institutional partnership.
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced on 16 October the creation of an Investors’ Council for the fuel and energy sector, placing his daughter and Head of the Presidential Administration, Saida Mirziyoyeva, at its helm. The president cited bureaucracy and corruption as the explicit reasons for the new body.
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced on October 16 that Saida Mirziyoyeva will chair a newly created energy sector investors council, established in direct response to complaints from major international energy companies about land allocation delays, grid connection bottlenecks and slow issuance of technical specifications.
