Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a law "On amendments and additions to the Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan on administrative responsibility in connection with the improvement of the procedure for determining the amount of an administrative fine imposed for non-execution of executive documents."

According to the amendments made to the Code of Administrative Responsibility, failure by the debtor to execute the executive document on the recovery of an amount equal to or not exceeding 10 sizes of basic estimate value (3.3 million soums) within the established time limit entails a fine of up to 5 sizes of basic estimate value (up to 1.6 million soums), and for officials - up to 10 sizes of basic estimate value (3.3 million soums).

A rule is included, according to which the amount of the applied administrative fine cannot exceed the amount established for collection in the executive document.

The law also establishes that the Chief State Executor of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the chief state executors of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, regions and the city of Tashkent, their deputies, as well as heads of district (city) departments of the Bureau of Compulsory Enforcement under the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan have right to consider cases of administrative offenses and apply administrative penalties provided for in Article 1981 of the Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan on administrative responsibility.