Legal support division

The main functions of the division:

Organization of ensuring the rule of law and legality in law enforcement activities of Competition Development and Consumer Protection Committee (hereinafter – Committee);

Implementation of control over the compliance of draft normative-legal and other documents developed (adopted) by Committee with the legislation;

Participation in the norm-setting activities of Committee, coordination of the work of structural divisions on the preparation of proposals for improving legislation;

Improving legal culture and legal literacy of Committee’s employees, participating in bringing to them content and essence of adopted regulatory legal acts, including using modern information and communication technologies;

Conducting contractual and legal and claim cases, ensuring reliable protection of property and other interests of Committee.

Division performs the following functions in accordance with tasks assigned to it:

1) in the field of organizing rule of law and legality in law enforcement activities of the Committee:

а) makes proposals to eliminate violations of law, their causes and conditions in the Committee, as well as in the relevant structures, participates in implementation of these measures;

b) conducts an examination of draft orders, orders, contracts and other documents of a legal nature submitted to the head of the committee for their compliance with the law and cancels the visa if there are no objections and proposals on them. In this case, legal support department will approve projects after other structural units (employees) of the Committee;

c) provides opinions on decisions of the Committee that affect the exercise of the rights and freedoms of individuals and legal entities;

d) independently or jointly with other structures prepares proposals for the development of orders, instructions, contracts and other documents of a legal nature of the committee, making changes and additions to them, as well as considering them as invalid;

e) studies, analyzes and generalizes the practice of law enforcement in the Committee, as well as in the relevant structures, prepares proposals for its improvement and submits them to the manual;

f) Together with other structural subdivisions of the Committee, participates in the consideration of applications, proposals and complaints indicating violations of the law in the activities of the state body, relevant structures and their officials;

g) participates in the development of proposals for improving the management system in the committee, establishing the rights and obligations of structures and their officials that fall under the system of a state body;

h) participates in ensuring compliance with labor legislation in the committee, including the development of legal documents regulating labor relations (labor contract, collective agreement, social contract, etc.), checks the compliance of drafts of these documents with legislation and gives a legal opinion;

i) provides a report to the leadership of the Committee on the situation with ensuring the rule of law and legality in the activities of a state body and organization;

j) provides legal assistance to trade unions and other representative bodies in the exercise of the powers of the committee’s employees;

2) In the field of monitoring the compliance of draft normative legal and other acts developed (adopted) by the Committee with the legislation, as well as participation of the Committee in lawmaking activities, coordination of work of its structures in  preparation of proposals for improving legislation:

a) develops current and long-term plans for the activities of the Rulemaking Committee or participates in their development, implementation and monitoring;

b) develops or participates in the development of draft legal acts on issues within the competence of the Committee;

c) develops departmental regulatory legal acts of the Committee or participates in their development and submission to the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan for legal expertise and state registration;

d) conducts legal expertise of draft regulatory legal acts submitted for expertise or approval independently or jointly with other structures, prepares legal opinions on the validity and expediency of their application to legislation, rules of legislative technique, reference norms, and also on the absence of factors that give rise to corruption in them;

e) in the absence of objections and proposals on draft regulatory legal documents, approves them. In this case, projects are approved by the legal service after other structural structures (employees) of the Committee;

f) systematically analyzes the current legal documents in the relevant area of the Committee’s activities, aimed at identifying factors in them that give rise to corruption;

g) participates in the development of proposals for the improvement of public administration in the field of activity of the Committee;

i) take measures to replenish the fund of the Committee’s legal documents, including the fund of codes, laws, commentaries, bulletins and other legal publications, make proposals to the Committee’s management on subscription to legal publications;

j) prepares for publication collections of legal documents on issues within the competence of the Committee;

k) coordinates the activities of the legal services of the structures included in the Committee system, ensures coordinated interaction;

m) provides methodological support for the legal work of the structures included in the Committee system, develops recommendations and instructions on the areas of activity of the legal service;

3) In the field of improving the legal culture and legal literacy of the Committee’s employees, bringing to them the content and significance of the adopted normative legal documents, including through modern information and communication technologies:

a) prepares analytical materials on legislative issues for the management of the Committee;

b) makes proposals on the organization of events to improve the legal knowledge of the employees of the Committee, as well as the structures included in its system, participates in the conduct of these events;

c) carries out work on the promotion of legislation related to the activities of the Committee;

d) immediately submit to the information service of the Committee information on the adopted legal documents, their content and significance for posting on the website of the Committee;

e) helps to find legal documents related to the activities of the Committee at the request of the Committee’s employees, and, if necessary, provides clarifications on their rules;

f) brings to the notice of changes in legislation, judicial practice, instructions of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan on legal issues to the structures included in the Committee system;

4) in the field of contractual legal and claim proceedings, ensuring reliable protection of the property and other interests of the committee:

a) Takes measures to resolve conflicts with the Committee, as well as citizens independently or jointly with other structural bodies in a judicial proceeding if they arise;

b) participates in the preparation and conclusion of contracts by the Committee together with other structures, checks their compliance with the law and, in the absence of objections and proposals, puts a visa in draft contracts. In this case, projects are approved by the legal support department after other system structures (employees) of the Committee;

c) controls compliance with the established procedure for concluding, executing, amending and terminating contracts;

d) makes proposals on the necessary execution of contracts concluded by the Committee, participates in the development of proposals for improving contractual relations;

e) participates in the preparation of appeals in defense of the interests of the Committee and in the consideration of appeals received by state bodies and organizations, monitors compliance with the procedure for submitting claims and their consideration in the Committee;

f) studies the status of accounts receivable and accounts payable of the Committee together with the relevant structures, takes measures to reduce their size;

g) conduct litigation in connection with disputes arising from contractual relations;

h) participates in the preparation of documents necessary for the legal protection of property and other interests of the Committee, as well as in court hearings in the prescribed manner;

i) checks the compliance of draft legal documents on the issues of property safety and participates in their preparation;

j) together with other system structures of the Committee, analyzes the causes and conditions for the theft of property, shortages and non-production costs and takes measures to eliminate them, draws up materials on theft and shortages of property for sending to law enforcement agencies;

k) issues legal opinions on draft documents on the write-off of material assets and funds, as well as on audits and rediscounts, in which violations of the law and abuses are revealed.

The legal service of the Committee also performs other functions in accordance with the law.

It is not allowed to assign functions to the legal support division and its employees that are not provided for by the Regulations or other regulatory legal acts.