Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- In the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis, deputies are preparing for the first reading a number of draft laws aimed at improving legislation, developing areas, improving the welfare of the population. Among them is the draft law "On Transport".

According to the Committee on Industry, Construction and Trade, responsible for the draft law, despite the fact that transport activities are regulated by separate legal documents, such as the Law on Road Transport, the Law on Railway Transport, the Air Code and others, there is no single law, which would ensure optimal, balanced and coordinated interaction of different modes of transport, determined the ways of their integration into a single transport network using efficient logistics, expanding the number of mixed routes.

Automotive, rail, air, water modes of transport developed separately from each other, focusing on narrow departmental goals. That is, there is virtually no coordination of the interaction of various modes of transport in transport hubs.

The draft law “On Transport” under consideration and the current industry legislative acts have equal legal force. All of them, both designed and operating, have direct operation standards that do not contradict, but rather complement each other and work simultaneously.

“The purpose of this draft law is to establish the legal, economic and organizational basis for the activities and interactions of road, rail, air, water, and urban passenger transport,” says Vakhobjon Murtkobilov, Chairman of the Committee on Industry, Construction and Trade. - What did we pay attention to when developing this document? First of all, the fact that the interdepartmental working group addressed the issue of combining all sectoral legislative acts into a single document. But as international practice shows, for example, in the United States there is a voluminous Model Transport Code. And such a union was soon noted as inappropriate. We, however, the deputies have not yet decided how correctly to combine legislative acts into one document. During the discussion, this issue will be considered in detail.

The fundamental basis for the development of the draft law was adopted by the head of the Civil Code, which provides for commercial transport activities carried out by concluding contracts of carriage, fare, responsibility for obligations arising from the contract and others.

Transit policy is of paramount importance for the development of the country's transport complex. The proposed draft law is aimed at solving the accumulated serious problems in the development of international transport corridors.

According to the chairman of the committee, in the draft law, the scope of authority for public administration and regulation is vested in the Cabinet of Ministers, the Ministry of Transport, and local authorities. The document also provides for state control, the procedure for licensing, and certification of transport. All these issues will be considered by deputies, whose proposals and opinions will be taken into account in subsequent discussions.

The adoption of this document will bring the current legislation into line with the requirements arising from the acts of the President of the country in the transport sector, will also create the legal basis for the interaction of transport organizations and users of their services in the implementation of transport activities, including multimodal transport.

Most importantly, the necessary conditions will be created to deepen the processes of integration of the national transport system into the international transport and logistics system.