The Resolution of the President No. PP-3794 was adopted on June 20, 2018, which has launched the process of revising recently adopted procedures for developing, examining and approving of pre-design and design documentation for investment and infrastructure projects. This resolution takes out the projects, implemented with participation of the International Financial Institutions/Foreign Governmental Financial Organizations (IFI/FGFO), from the sphere of application of PP-3550. At the same time, the Executive Office of the President, the General Prosecutor's Office and the Audit Chamber have been instructed to revise the authorities and functions of the National Agency for project management (NAPM) to enhance the efficiency of its activity in the sphere of examining projects, as well as identifying systemic deficiencies, which hinder the fully-fledged implementation of these projects (as we informed earlier, comprehensive examination of pre-design, design and tender documentation was vested on NAPM in February 2018).

Along with this, the State Investment Committee, together with the Ministry of Economy and Ministry of Finance, have been instructed to attract the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, to develop an improved mechanism for implementing projects with the participation of IFI/FGFO within two weeks. Whereas the updated procedure for developing and examining other projects (without IFI/FGFO) shall be developed by NAPM.

This resolution also makes the following amendments:

  • To PP-3550 dated 20.02.2018 - the notion of "financial-economic report," which should have been developed for one-stage projects, has been excluded; some procedural aspects of examination have been revised.
  • To PP-3720 dated 12.05.2018 and PP-3150 dated 27.07.2017 - which, in effect, cancel the decisions adopted about a month ago, on transfer of functions on management and determination of strategic aims of all state-owned companies of Uzbekistan to NAPM.

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