Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- The Law on Introducing Amendments and Additions to Some Legislative Acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan, adopted by the Legislative Chamber on 7 April 2020, was submitted for consideration to the Senate of the Oliy Majlis.

A preliminary review of this Law by the Committee of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis on judicial issues and anti-corruption took place. The law was discussed online in the light of the interests of the regions with the participation of Committee members and experts.

The law makes amendments and additions to the Criminal Code, the Code of Administrative Responsibility, “On Medicines and Pharmaceutical Activities”, “On Family Entrepreneurship” and a number of other laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

It is known that preventing illicit trafficking and abuse of drugs, streamlining the circulation of potent substances are important in educating the developed generation along with maintaining the health of the population.

In recent years, adolescents in pharmacies were free to buy drugs containing potent substances, which led to an increase in their use of these drugs for non-medical purposes.

In order to prevent such phenomena and increase responsibility, the relevant article of the Criminal Code is amended. So, for violation of the retail order of prescription drugs containing potent substances, criminal liability is established and the perpetrator can be punished with up to five years in prison.

Another feature. In practice, it often happened that in the case of video recording of a violation of road rules committed by drivers of vehicles that gave way to vehicles of ambulance services, the fire service and other services to ensure their unhindered passage by the way vehicles, to ensure their unhindered passage, drivers became the culprits. There were times when they paid heavy fines. And on this issue we had many appeals.

Additions to the Code of Administrative Responsibility are aimed at eliminating such phenomena. That is, in the event of a violation of the rules of the road by drivers of vehicles who gave way to vehicles of operational and special services to ensure their unhindered access, they are not held accountable for this.

A clear establishment of such a norm will strengthen the rights of drivers.

In addition, a new rule is introduced into the Code of Administrative Responsibility, which is also relevant. This is due to unlawful interference in the professional activities of teachers or obstruction of their official duties.

For illegal interference in the professional activity of a teacher of an educational institution, expressed in influencing the correct and objective assessment of students' knowledge, as well as obstructing the performance of his or her official duties, administrative liability is established and this entails a fine on citizens from 7 to 10, and on officials from 10 to 15 basic calculated values.

The responsibility for non-fulfillment by parents or persons replacing them of the duties of raising and educating minor children or preventing them from receiving compulsory general secondary, specialized secondary, vocational education, which is established in article 47 of the Code of Administrative Responsibility, is also being strengthened. In addition, this may lead to a fine of up to twenty-five basic calculation values.

It should be noted that these norms contribute to a further increase in the authority of teachers in society and to the strengthening of the responsibility of parents for raising children.

Today, preparatory work is underway to prepare this Law for discussion at the next plenary meeting.