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.
Uzbekistan’s construction minister says a new system bringing certified private maintenance firms into schools and kindergartens will launch next year, starting with a nationwide technical audit of every building.
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.
Uzbekistan’s construction minister told parliament that more than 720 multi-storey buildings in Tashkent were built without architectural permits, the General Prosecutor’s Office is handling the cases, and a new law introduces prison terms of up to seven years for repeat or fatal violations.
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.
Deputy Construction Minister Kozim To’laganov told the Senate that nearly 80 billion soums in project funding has been frozen pending correction of defects, as a new national transparency platform extends mandatory digital oversight to every construction site in Uzbekistan from 1 January 2021.
A new Uzbek law imposes prison terms of three to eight years for unlawfully detaining or investigating individuals protected by immunity, covering parliamentarians, judges, lawyers and senior presidential officials, while barring inadmissible evidence and requiring presidential consent for prosecutions.
