Number of registered legal persons reaches 531,000

The State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan said that the greatest number of enterprises and institutions (excluding private farms) was registered in trade and catering (25.4%of total registered enterprises), agriculture (21.1%), industry (13.3%), and construction (7.3%).

In the total number of registered enterprises, the share of enterprises with non-state form of ownership was 92.6%of which 50.9%- private and dekhkan farms, 20%- private enterprises, 0.9%- enterprises with participation of foreign capital, 20.8%– other enterprises.

The number of newly registered enterprises and institutions was 18,400 in January-June 2012. Their significant number was marked in the city of Tashkent (17.2%of total registered enterprises in Uzbekistan), Samarkand region (9.5%), Tashkent region (9.2%), and Kashkadarya region (8.8%).

In the sectoral structure of newly registered enterprises, some 40.1% enterprises were created in agriculture sector, 19.7% - trade and catering, and 16.7% - industry.

In the reporting period, 10,900 enterprises and institutions were liquidated. Out of them 3,300 were liquidated voluntarily.

In the sectoral structure of liquidated enterprises, 32.3% of the enterprises fell to share of trade and catering, 22.2%- agriculture, and 15.1%– industry.