Parliament of Uzbekistan adopted new law on guaranties of activities of non-state nonprofit organizations

The new Law is aimed at regulating relations in the area of provision of guaranties and support for the activities of non-state non-profit organizations, ensuring protection of their rights and legal interests.

It says that the State guarantees the protection of rights and legal interests of non-state nonprofit organizations and defines the forms and conditions of their support.
According to the law if the international agreement of the Republic of Uzbekistan stipulates other rules than those envisaged by the legislation of Uzbekistan on the guaranties of the activities of non-state non-profit organizations, then the rules of the international agreement come into force.

The document provides full guarantees of freedom of activities for non-stet nonprofit organization. In particular, it states that non-state nonprofit organizations can within their statute objectives exercise any practice not prohibited by law. They are independent in their activities from bodies of state authority and administration, and neither accountable to them, nor under their control except for cases stipulated by legislative acts. The obstruction of or interference into their activities is prohibited.

Article 10 of the Law stipulates that the non-state nonprofit organizations shall have a right to appeal the unlawful decisions of the state bodies, acts (inaction) of their officials to a higher body in accordance with subordination or the court. They shall be relieved of state fees in appealing to the court the unlawful decisions of the state bodies, acts (inaction) of their officials, which infringe their rights and lawful interests.

The damage caused to the non-state non-profit organizations as a result of unlawful decisions of the state bodies, acts (inaction) of their officials is subject to reimbursement based on the verdict of the court, according to the new law.

The law is applied with regard to non-state non-profit organizations irrespective of their organizational-legislative form including the trade unions, political parties, religious organizations and other non-state non-profit organizations provided that different provisions are not stipulated by other laws regulating the order of their establishment and functioning.