The country is consistently implementing measures to radically improve and reform investment policies, introduce modern, effective approaches and mechanisms for its implementation, as well as accelerate investment processes and improve the business climate as a whole.

The measures taken, first of all, contribute to ensuring the accelerated development and modernization of economic sectors, production and social infrastructure, comprehensive diversification and increasing the competitiveness of industrial production.

In order to continue an active investment policy, concentrate efforts and rational use of available resources, taking into account measures taken to actively attract and effectively develop investments, including foreign direct investments, for the implementation of strategic and most important investment projects for the technical and technological re-equipment of existing and the creation of new high-tech industries , as well as ensuring on this basis the employment of citizens, improving the level and quality of life of the population:

1. To approve the Investment Program of the Republic of Uzbekistan for 2019, developed by the State Investment Committee in conjunction with the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Uzbekistan, interested ministries, departments and other organizations, providing for:

main parameters of capital investments in 2019 according to Appendix No. 1*;

forecast for the commissioning of social, housing, engineering and transport infrastructure in 2019 in accordance with Appendix No. 2*;

targeted program for commissioning facilities and production capacities in 2019 according to Appendix No. 3*.

2. Approve:

a) targeted program for the construction and reconstruction of facilities in 2019, financed from the State budget of the Republic of Uzbekistan, in accordance with Appendix No. 4*;

b) financed by centralized investment:

targeted program for the construction and reconstruction of reclamation facilities, as well as the acquisition of equipment in 2019 in accordance with Appendix No. 5*;

targeted program for the construction and reconstruction of roads, bridges and overpasses, as well as equipment of facilities and the acquisition of equipment in 2019 in accordance with Appendix No. 6*;

targeted programs for the construction, reconstruction, overhaul and equipping of objects of higher educational institutions, specialized boarding schools of the Olympic reserve, children's schools of music and art, medical, research, general educational and preschool educational institutions in 2019 according to Annexes No. 7, 7a 7b, 7v, 7g, 7d and 7e*;

targeted program for the construction and reconstruction of facilities for drinking water supply and sanitation in 2019 according to Appendix No. 8*;

targeted development program for the Aral Sea region with the organization of financing projects in the Republic of Karakalpakstan and the Khorezm region in 2019 according to Appendix No. 9*;

v) targeted program of investment projects for 2019, implemented with foreign loans under the state guarantee of the Republic of Uzbekistan, in accordance with Appendix No. 10*;

g) targeted program of investment projects implemented with the involvement of the Fund for Reconstruction and Development of the Republic of Uzbekistan in 2019, in accordance with Appendix No. 11*;

d) a consolidated targeted program for the development of investments in the framework of industry investment projects in 2019 in accordance with Appendix No. 12*;

e) financed by decentralized investments:

targeted program of industry investment projects for 2019, implemented with foreign direct investment and loans, in accordance with Appendix No. 13*;

targeted program of regional investment projects for 2019, implemented with foreign direct investment, in accordance with Appendix No. 14*;

j) the following:

list of investment projects requiring accelerated development, approval and approval of pre-project and project documentation in 2019, according to Appendix No. 15*;

list of promising industrial investment and infrastructure projects to be developed in 2019, according to Appendix No. 16*;

list of construction and reconstruction facilities proposed for financing at the expense of the State budget of the Republic of Uzbekistan, which require the development and approval of pre-project and project documentation in 2019, according to Appendix No. 17*;

list of social facilities proposed for financing through centralized investments, which require the development and approval of pre-project and project documentation in 2019, according to Appendix No. 18*.

3. To determine that:

based on the results of the development and examination of project documentation, adjustments and clarifications can be made to the lists and limits (cost) of capital investments for projects (facilities) by decisions of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan — the head of the Complex for Investment, Innovative Development, and Coordination of Activities of Free Economic and Small Industrial zones in coordination with the National Agency for Project Management under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

amendments and additions to the approved design and estimate documentation for projects (facilities) are made on the basis of decisions of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

intervention of persons, not endowed with the necessary powers, in the course of construction and the process of making amendments and additions to the approved design and estimate documentation is not allowed.

4. To establish that the funds of the State Budget of the Republic of Uzbekistan and non-budgetary funds are credited to the Fund for Financing State Development Programs under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan (hereinafter referred to as the Development Fund) as the Development Fund confirms the use of the previously transferred funds to finance projects included in targeted programs, approved by this resolution.

To make the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Uzbekistan responsible for ensuring timely transfer to the Development Fund of the funds necessary for the implementation of projects according to the funding schedule.

5. The Ministry of Finance, together with the State Committee for Investments and the National Agency for Project Management under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, to develop and submit to the Cabinet of Ministers standards for limits on external borrowing and the amount of state guarantees of the Republic of Uzbekistan for collateral for loans within three months.

6. The bodies of state and economic management, the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, the khokimiyats of the regions and the city of Tashkent - the customers of projects included in the targeted programs approved by this resolution (hereinafter — the project customers), ensure:

within a two-week period — preparation and submission to the State Investment Committee and the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Uzbekistan of address lists of construction sites for 2019 for transitional facilities with specification of sources and volumes of their financing in conjunction with the calendar schedules for the implementation of construction and installation works;

in conjunction with the Ministry of Construction of the Republic of Uzbekistan, within three weeks - the completion of work on the approval of project documentation for projects newly launched in 2019, financed by centralized investments;

within two months on the basis of the approved project documentation — conducting a comprehensive examination of the tender (competitive) documentation, completing procurement procedures for newly launched projects and concluding contract agreements with the winners of tender (competitive) tenders in the established manner;

within a week after the completion of procurement procedures — submission to the State Committee for Investments and the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Uzbekistan for approval of the final address lists of construction projects for newly launched projects;

within two weeks — submission to the State Committee on Investments and the National Agency for Project Management under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan of integrated network schedules for the implementation of projects included in Appendixes No. 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 to this resolution;

within a month — submitting for approval to the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan “road maps” agreed with the State Committee for Investments and the National Agency for Project Management under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the development and approval of pre-design and project documentation for projects included in Appendix No. 15 to this resolution.

7. The Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan, within one month, shall ensure:

the study of draft master plans of cities and urban settlements of the republic developed and not approved to this day for the validity of their main provisions and technical and economic indicators;

preparation of proposals for improving the procedure for developing urban planning documentation, a mechanism for financing measures for its development, as well as stimulating the activities of private design and survey organizations, introducing innovative solutions and international best practices in this area;

development of proposals for further improvement, improving the efficiency of work in the field of design, construction, reconstruction, repair, maintenance of roads, taking into account the introduction of modern public-private partnership mechanisms in the industry aimed at improving the efficiency of use of allocated funds, as well as developing road infrastructure and the whole.

8. To assign to the heads of ministries, departments, economic management bodies, the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, khokimiyats of the regions and the city of Tashkent personal responsibility for:

ensuring timely and high-quality implementation of construction and installation works, development of the full amount of funds and commissioning of facilities and production capacities for projects included in the Investment Program of the Republic of Uzbekistan for 2019;

development, examination and approval of pre-project and project documentation in 2019 for facilities included in Appendixes No. 17 and 18 to this resolution.

9. The Supervisory Board of the Development Fund together with the project customers shall ensure:

redistribution in the prescribed manner of saved or undeveloped limits on capital investments based on the results of 6 and 9 months of 2019 with the targeted allocation of these funds as a matter of priority to finance projects for the construction, reconstruction and overhaul of facilities included in the Investment Program of the Republic of Uzbekistan for 2019 water supply, sewage, as well as health care and education in the relevant region if there are positive conclusions of the State Committee on Investments, M Ministries of Finance and of the National Agency of project management at the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

quarterly, by the 10th day of the month following the reporting period, the submission to the National Agency for Project Management under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Cabinet of Ministers of a report on the status of financing of projects included in targeted programs approved by this resolution;

making, if necessary, adjustments and clarifications to the targeted construction programs after the procurement procedures, taking into account the actual use of funds and within the parameters of capital investments provided for in the Investment Program of the Republic of Uzbekistan for 2019.

10. The National Agency for Project Management under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, together with the State Committee for Investments, should ensure systematic analysis and monitoring of the implementation of projects included in the targeted programs approved by this resolution, with the quarterly inclusion of information in the President Administration of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

11. The control over the implementation of this resolution shall be assigned to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan A.N. Aripov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan S.R. Kholmuradov, Head of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Z.S. Nizomiddinov and Deputy Advisor to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan G.K. Saidov.