Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- At the twenty-seventh plenary session of the Senate, the Law "On the introduction of amendments and additions, as well as the invalidation of certain legislative acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan" was considered.

The law abolishes administrative liability for such offenses as non-compliance with the terms of receivables and payables and violation of the established terms for making payments if there are appropriate funds on the accounts of enterprises, as well as causing property damage to business entities due to non-fulfillment or improper fulfillment of contractual obligations.

In addition, new norms are introduced into legislative acts that envisage the participation and powers of non-state forensic experts in the course of inquiry, preliminary investigation and judicial proceedings.

The law establishes administrative responsibility for violating the law on the openness of the activities of public authorities and administration.

In particular, it is provided that for non-publication or incomplete publication of information included in the List of socially significant information to be placed as open data, failure to comply with the terms and procedure for publication or distortion of data entails a fine on officials from three to five basic calculated values. , for the same offense committed repeatedly within a year after the application of an administrative penalty - from five to ten basic settlement values.

At the same time, a lawyer acquires a number of rights in the exercise of his professional activities. Thus, a lawyer, with the consent of the principal in economic, civil and administrative proceedings during pre-trial preparation and in the trial, has the right to request an expert examination on a contractual basis by state and non-state forensic organizations, to demand that the expert opinion be attached to the case materials and its assessment by the court in the totality of available in the matter of evidence.

In addition, it is envisaged that an expert of a non-state forensic organization may also act as an expert in civil proceedings.

The law was approved by the senators.