On joint session of the Committee of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis (Parliament)

of the Republic of Uzbekistan and Kengash of People’s deputies

June 09, 2007

Further deepening of reforms in housing and communal services is one of the priorities in the realization of economic state program in 2007.

The joint session of the Committee of the Senate on legislation and judicial issues and Kengash of People’s deputies of Tashkent city was held in Tashkent city municipality, where results of monitoring of the activity of fellowship of private estate proprietors.

As President of the Republic of Uzbekistan I.A.Karimov indicated in his speech during the session of the Cabinet of Ministers, dedicated to the results of social-economic development of the country in 2006: “It necessary again and again to evaluate critically those processes, which occurs in housing and communal sector, expose existed serious problems in this important sector”. Successful implementation of state policy in the sphere of housing and communal services mainly depend on realization of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On fellowship of private estate proprietors” and other legal acts, which regulate the relations in the sphere of formation and activity of fellowship of private estate proprietors in multi-apartment building as voluntary association for joint management and keeping maintenance, safety and construction of the housing fund.

In order to study of the status of implementation of the requirements of indicated Law on places, study the reasons of existed problems, as well as determination of measures on effective organization and all-round support for the activity of fellowship of private estate proprietors by the Committee of the Senate on legislation and judicial issues jointly with Kengash of People’s deputies of Tashkent city monitoring was held in all districts of the capital in March.

The results of monitoring demonstrate, that by ensuring the tasks indicated in legal acts for improving communal services in Tashkent city the concrete work to organize and increasing the effectiveness of the activity of fellowship of private estate proprietors. In all districts of the city the work was completed on reorganization of the activity of fellowship of private estate proprietors, number of which by 1 January 2007 reached 2086. For the development of the competitive sphere in service of communal sector 96 alternative service companies are also created.

It was also indicated, that implementation of the activities indicated in the agenda for 2006 was completed in the sphere housing and communal service. Particularly, fully reconstructed 79 multistoried houses, 32 boiler houses, 40 km. of worming, 25 km. of gas and 8,7 water mains.

At the same time, the monitoring shows that there are some imperfections in the activity of fellowship of private estate proprietors relating to the implementation of requirements of the legislation. So, today 475 legal and natural persons who have the right of property for non-residential premises in tenement houses which are located in the responsibility of 601 fellowships of private estate proprietors, do not have the agreement with 62 of them. Many fellowships of private estate proprietors do note realize their legal rights in the issues of using lax credits and loans for improvement of their financial conditions and development of competition in offering services in housing and communal sphere, implementing entrepreneurship activity in indicated limits. Insufficient attention is paying to the issues of payment of accounts debts for communal services.

In some fellowship of private estate proprietors there are not conditions for rendering additional services to tenants. There are some cases of not implementing measures on complaints in time, lands are not measured according to the regulation.

During the joint discussion of the case by the senators and peoples deputies they paid big attention to necessity of increasing of responsibility of district municipalities, state body management, leaders of organizations and enterprises for organization and development of the activity of fellowship of private estate proprietors, rendering them all-round support and assistance.

During the session several proposals and recommendations were said, directed to solving regional problem by full ensuring the requirements of the legislation and taking decisions on terminating the existed problems in the activity of fellowship of private estate proprietors, increasing their role in deepening reforms in housing and communal sphere.

According to the results of the discussions the relevant decree was adopted.

Senators, deputies of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan and Kengash of People’s deputies of Tashkent city, representatives of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Supreme Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Prosecutors Office, Ministry of Justice, “Uzkommunkhizmat” Agency, Institute of Monitoring on legislation at the President’s office of Uzbekistan, Institute of studying of citizens society, Ombudsman of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, as well as other interested ministries, bodies and mass media participated the session.
 

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