Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- The fight against corruption, along with the serious reforms carried out recently, has become one of the most important tasks for Uzbekistan. Since it is known that corruption is not only the enemy of democracy, but also of any development in general.

According to the rating of the organization Transparency International, announced in 2020, Uzbekistan, with 26 points, ranks 146th out of 183 countries in terms of corruption. This is, of course, a sad situation.

Of course, various factors influence the reduction of the level of corruption. One of them is the eradication of the presence of corruption norms in legislative acts and their introduction into practice.

In this regard, on 24 February, by order of the Minister of Justice (reg. No. 3287), the Regulation on the procedure for conducting anti-corruption expertise of regulatory legal acts and their projects was approved.

The regulation introduces a completely new procedure for identifying corruption-generating factors - filling in the checklist by state bodies and organizations.

At the same time, an analysis of each norm and provision of the project is carried out, the presence or absence of a corruption-generating factor is reflected in the checklist.

At the same time, corruption-generating factors have been completely revised, their meaning is explained to law enforcers and citizens on the basis of a methodology containing short, clear and detailed examples.

In particular, the unjustified application of exceptions in the legislation is prohibited, it is determined that the adopted norm should be uniform and common for all.

In order to create convenience for the developers of draft regulations, specific examples of corruption-related factors are given.

Now the public will be widely involved in the anti-corruption expertise of projects.

At the same time, citizens can express their opinion and position on draft legislative acts by filling out a checklist on the regulation.gov.uz portal.

In addition, it has been established that the anti-corruption expertise of the existing regulatory legal acts will be carried out within the framework of the currently effectively established legal monitoring system.

The main purpose of the document is to prevent the legalization of corruption.