RESOLUTION No. 245
OF THE CABINET OF MINISTERS OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN
5 June, 2001
On Measures to Improve Organizational Management Structure
in the Road Transport Sector
In keeping with the Decree No. UP-2871 of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan
dated June 4, 2001 “On De-monopolization and Improvement of Management in the
Road Transport Sector”, and for the purpose of creating efficient management structure
for the road transport at the national and territorial [regional] levels, the Cabinet of
Ministers hereby resolves:
1. To form a commission for the liquidation of the Uzbek State Joint-Stock Road
Transport Corporation (“Uzavtotrans”) with membership as per Annex 1.
The Liquidation Commission shall, following the established procedure, within two
months take actions to liquidate the “Uzavtotrans” Corporation, carry out the inventory of
public assets kept in the balance of the Corporation and its incorporated entities and units,
and submit to the GosKomImushchestvo [GKI] of the Republic of Uzbekistan proposals
regarding efficient use of these assets in the future.
2. To accept the following proposals made by the founders of associations and companies
incorporated into the “Uzavtotrans” which is being liquidated:
- To liquidate GAO [State Joint-Stock Association] “UzTransKhizmati”, GAK [State
Joint-Stock Company] “UzTansProgress” and GAO “UzAvtoKhodim” and transfer all
their enterprises and organizations to the regional associations of road carriers;
- To transform GAK “TashOblPassTrans” and GAK “TashOblGruzTrans” [freight] into a
regional association of road carriers “TashVilTrans” [Vil stands for Viloyat - Province];
- To make the Republican State Joint-Stock Association “UzMezhAvtoTrans”, the
Republican Association “UzTransSanoat”, the insurance company “Yulovchi”, OAO
“BK INTRANS” function as independent economic entities in coordination with the
Uzbek Agency for Automobile and River Transport [UAART].
3. To abolish “KhorezmRechFlot” [river fleet] management agency and make all its
subordinate entities part of the regional road carriers association of Khorezm Province.
The GKI of the Republic of Uzbekistan shall within two months, following the
established procedure, take actions to liquidate “KhorezmRechFlot” management agency.
The Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Uzbekistan shall transfer the responsibility for
financing Khojeili and Chalysh road sections from the republican budget to the local
budgets of the Republic of Karakalpakstan and Khorezm Province.
4. To approve:
- Organizational management structure foe road and river transport as per Annex 2;
- The list of enterprises and organizations to be made part of republican associations and
regional associations of road carriers, as per Annex 3;
- Standard organizational chart of the executive body of the regional road carriers
association management as per Annex 4.
5. Liquidation Commission shall, following the established procedure, transfer
- editorial offices of the magazine “The Road Transport of Uzbekistan”, newspaper
“Uzbekiston Avtomobilchisi” and the Republican Road Transport Services Certification
Center under the responsibility of the UAART;
- educational institutions as per Annex 5 of the being liquidated “Uzavtotrans” under the
responsibility of the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Professional Education of the
Republic of Uzbekistan.
6. To approve the staffing of the UAART, the structure of its central management body
and the standard organizational chart of the Agency’s regional offices, as per Annexes 6,
7 and 8.
To establish the maximum number of staff for the UAART central office as 27, and of the
Agency’s regional offices as 144 (without support staff).
To allow the UAART employ two deputy directors and a collegium of 5 persons.
7. The GKI shall, before August 1, 2001, appoint on a competitive basis trust managers
for the public stock of shares in the joint-stock road transport companies, which used to
be part of the “Uzavtotrans” group.
8. Classified.
9. The Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, khokimiyats of provinces
and Tashkent city, and the GKI shall, before august 1, 2001, take actions to transform
regional state joint-stock concerns and associations into regional associations of road
carriers.
10. The special commission for the liquidation of “Uzavtotrans” shall, within one month,
study and submit to the Cabinet of Ministers proposals to revise, based on market
standards and appropriateness, the procedure and list of licensed activities, license
conditions and requirements to be met by road carriers, in view of their maximum
liberalization.
11. The UAART together with the State Tax committee, Ministry of Interior and the
Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan, shall:
- within two months submit to the Cabinet of Ministers the Procedure of controlling road
transport operations, which would anticipate a mechanism to control the observance of
established licensing terms and requirements by all road carriers [operators], regardless of
their form of ownership;
- within two months, together with the State Customs committee, submit to the Cabinet of
Ministers proposals concerning the set up of efficient system of customs control and
procedure of inspecting technical condition, allowable weight and dimension parameters
of inbound vehicles, the availability of gauges (taxographers) on board the vehicles in
compliance with the European Covenant (ECTP) [???] for international transport
operations.
12. Road transport companies [ATPs] and organizations which used to be part of the
“Uzavtotrans” and which have debts on credits provided by the “Asaka” bank against
guarantee issued by the “Uzavtotrans”, shall, within one month re-conclude guarantee
agreements for other types of credit security, such as collateral, or guarantees issued by
third parties.
13. The Department for External Economic Activity of the Cabinet of Ministers together
with the UAART shall agree with the IBRD the issue of appointing the Republican
Association “UzTransSanoat” [transport industry] as sub-borrower for the Loan
Agreement No. UZ-4547 with the IBRD, to replace the liquidated “Uzavtotrans”.
14. Liquidation commission shall transfer the building located at the address: Tashkent,
39a, Akademika Y. Gulyamova St., and other property from the balance of “Uzavtotrans”
to the balance of the UAART.
15. To consider null and void the CM Resolution No. 21 dated January 12, 1993 “Issues
of organization and operations of the Uzbek State Joint-Stock Road Transport
Corporation (“Uzavtotrans”)”.
16. To make changes and amendments into some resolutions of the Cabinet of Ministers
of the Republic of Uzbekistan as per Annex 9.
17. Control over the implementation of this Resolution shall be performed by Mr. R. S.
Azimov, Deputy prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
I. Karimov
Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers
Annex 1
to the Resolution No. 245
of the Cabinet of Ministers
5 June, 2001
Membership
of the Special Commission for the liquidation
of the State Joint-Stock Corporation “Uzavtotrans”
1. R. S. Azimov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Chairman of the
Commission
2. A. N. Isaev, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Deputy Chairman
of the Commission
3. M. A. Askarov, First Deputy Chairman of the GosKomImushchestvo
4. S. Y. Abdurakhmanov, Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers
5. K. M. Sidiknazarov, Chairman of the Board of the “Uzavtotrans” Corporation
6. P. A. Samatov, Deputy Minister of Justice
7. E. F. Gadoev, Deputy chairman of the State Tax Committee
8. M. S. Abdurakhmanov, Deputy Minister of Finance
9. M. J. Gapparov, Chief Accountant of the “Uzavtotrans” Corporation
10. O. R. Gaziev, Head of Administration, Office Manager of the “Uzavtotrans”.
Annex 2
to the Resolution No. 245
of the Cabinet of Ministers
5 June, 2001
Organizational Structure
for Road and River Transport Management
Republican Level
Uzbek Agency for
Automobile and River
Transport
Regional offices of the
Agency
Republican association
“UzTransSanoat”
Republican Center for
certification of road transport
services
Republican association
“UzMezhAvtotrans”
Editorial Office of the
magazine “Road Transport in
Uzbekistan”
Insurance Company
“Yulovchi”
Editorial Office of the
newspaper “Uzbekiston
Avtomobilchisi”
OAO “BK INTRANS”
Annex 2
Regional Level
Council of Ministers of the Republic of
Karakalpakstan,
Province and Tashkent City Khokimiyats
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION
“KORAKALPOKTRANS”
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION
“ANDIJONTRANS”
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION
“BOKHOROTRANS”
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION
“JIZZAKHTRANS”
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION
“KASHKADARYOTRANS”
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION
“NAVOITRANS”
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION
“NAMANGANTRANS”
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION
“SAMARKANDTRANS”
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION
“SYRDARYOTRANS”
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION
“SURKHANDARYOTRANS”
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION
“TOSHVILTRANS”
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION
“FARGONATRANS”
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION
“KHORAZMTRANS”
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION
“TOSH-SHAKHARYUKTRANS”
Annex 3
to the Resolution No. 245
of the Cabinet of Ministers
5 June, 2001
THE LIST
of enterprises and organizations to be made part
of the national and regional associations of road carriers
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION “UZTRANSSANOAT”
1. OAO “UzInformTranssistema”
2. OAO “MADIN’A”
3. OAO “AvtoTourTrans”
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION “UZMEZHAVTOTRANS”
1. JV “KAMKO”
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION “KORAKALPOKTRANS”
1. OAO “KRtrnasKhizmeti”
2. Firm “Alisher-A-97”
3. Private company Nukusskiy KIVC
4. OOO Nukusskiy AUK
5. MP [Small enetrprise] “AvtoKniga” Nukus
6. Associations of private operators (2 entities)
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION “ANDIJONTRANS”
1. OAO AndijanTransExpeditsia
2. Association of private operators
3. OOO Andijanskiy KIVC
4. OOO Andijanskiy AUK
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION “BOKHOROTRANS”
1. OAO BukharaTransExpeditsia
2. “Sharq” Service Center
3. OOO Bukharskiy AUK
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION “JIZZAKHTRANS”
1. OAO JizakTransExpeditsia
2. OOO Jizakskiy AUK
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION “KASHKADARYOTRANS”
1. OAO KashkadaryaTransExpeditsia
2. OOO Karshinskiy AUK
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION “NAVOITRANS”
1. OAO NavoiTransExpeditsia
2. MP “Usto”
3. MP TransAgency “Kiziltepa”
4. MP “NavoiTransAgency”
5. OOO Navoiyskiy AUK
6. Transport agency “Khatirchi”
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION “NAMANGANTRANS”
1. OAO NamanganTransExpeditsia
2. OAO ChustTransExpeditsia
3. OOO Namanganskiy KIVC
4. OOO Namanganskiy AUK
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION “SAMARKANDTRANS”
1. OAO SamarkandTransExpeditsia
2. MP BulungurTransExpeditsia
3. OOO Samarkandskut KIVC
4. OOO Samarkandskiy AUK
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION “SYRDARYOTRANS”
1. OAO “SyrdaryaTransKhizmat”
2. OOO “Namuna”
3. OAO Syrdaryinskiy KIVC
4. OOO Syrdaryinskiy AUK
5. MP “Ishonch”
6. MP “Madad”
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION “SURKHANDARYOTRANS”
1. OAO SurkhandaryaTransExpeditsia
2. OOO Denauskiy AUK
3. MP “Yulduz”
4. MP “Avtomobilchi”
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION “TOSHVILTRANS”
1. OAO TashOblTransExpeditsia
2. OOO “Buyuk Turon”
3. OOO Chirchikskiy AUK
4. OOO Almalykskiy AUK
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION “FARGONATRANS”
1. OAO FargonaTransExpeditsia
2. OOO Kokandskiy AUK
3. OOO Ferganskiy AUK
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION “KHORAZMTRANS”
1. OAO KhorezmTransExpeditsia
2. OOO KhazaraspTransExpeditsia
3. GP “KPIGA” (Overall Testing Station for Gas Cylinder Units)
4. Operating Section Chalysh
5. OOO Urgenchskiy AUK
CARRIERS ASSOCIATION “TOSH-SHAKHARYUKTRANS”
1. OAO TashGorTransExpeditsia
2. OAO “Bakht”
3. OOO “ChAP-TEA”
4. OOO “TashAvtoSport”
5. OOO Tashkentskiy AUK
6. OOO “AvtoKurilish”
7. AO “AvtoKadr” Tashkent
8. SP [joint venture] “Interpart Co”
9. MP “AvtotransMarketing”
10. Association of private operators
Annex 4
to the Resolution No. 245
of the Cabinet of Ministers
5 June, 2001
Standard Organizational Chart
of the executive managing body
of the regional road carriers association
(Total number of staff - 20-30)
Chairman of the Board
First Deputy Chairman,
Senior Manager
Marketing and Passenger
Transport Dept
(2-4 staff)
Marketing and Freight
Transport Dept
(2-5 staff)
Operations & Technical
Dept (3-4 staff)
Safety Traffic and
Emergency Situations
Dept (2-3 staff)
Deputy Chairman
Economic analysis,
Finance and Accounting
Dept (3-5)
Privatization &
Investment Dept (2-3)
Legal and Personnel
Unit (2)
Special Unit (1)
Annex 5
to the Resolution No. 245
of the Cabinet of Ministers
5 June, 2001
LIST
of educational institutions of the SJSC “Uzavtotrans”
to be transferred under the responsibility
of the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Professional Education
1. Tashkent Road Transport Technical School
2. Bukhara Road Transport Technical School
3. Nukus Road Transport Technical School
4. Urgench Road Transport Technical School
5. Kokand Road Transport Technical School
Annex 6
to the Resolution No. 245
of the Cabinet of Ministers
5 June, 2001
LIST
of enterprises and organizations incorporated into the structure
of the Uzbek Agency for Automobile and River Transport,
as well as independent associations interacting with the Agency
in the course of their operations
1. Central Office of the UAART
Organizations directly reporting to the Agency
2. Regional offices of the Agency
3. Republican Center for certification of road transport services
4. Editorial Office of the magazine “Road Transport in Uzbekistan”
5. Editorial Office of the newspaper “Uzbekiston Avtomobilchisi”
Republican associations interacting with the Agency
1. Republican association “UzTransSanoat”
2. Republican association “UzMezhAvtotrans”
3. OAO “BK INTRANS”
4. Insurance Company “Yulovchi”
Annex 7
to the Resolution No. 245
of the Cabinet of Ministers
5 June, 2001
Organizational Chart
of the Central Office of the UAART
(Total number of staff - 27)
Head
Deputy
Deputy
Dept for designing
regulatory documents
(4 staff)
Dept for Licensing,
Control &
Organization of
Safety Transport (5)
External Economic
Relations Sector (2)
Information &
Analytical Group (2)
Navigation Register
& Navigation
Inspection (2)
Collegium
Finance and
Accounting Dept
(3)
Legal Dept (2)
Personnel Officer,
Mail Office and
Special Unit (2)
Administration
and Office
Management (2)
Annex 8
to the Resolution No.245
of the Cabinet of Ministers
5 June, 2001
Standard Organizational Chart
of the Regional Office of the UAART
(Total number of staff - 10-12)
Head of Office
Sector for franchising;
Controlling over the
observance
of licensing requirements
and conditions;
Transport Safety (6)
Navigation Register &
Navigation Inspection
(of Karakalpak
Republican and
Surkhandarya Regional
Offices) (2)
Sector for Licensing &
Accounting (3)
Annex 9
to the Resolution No. 245
of the Cabinet of Ministers
5 June, 2001
Changes and Amendments
to be incorporated into certain resolutions
of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan
I. Clause 7 of the CM Resolution No. 11 dated January 11, 1995 “On the Procedure of
Entry, Sojourn, Transit and Exit of foreign road transport carriers from the territory of the
Republic of Uzbekistan” shall read as follows:
“7. The responsibility for record and control shall be given to:
- Frontier Guard Committee and the State Customs Committee of the Republic of
Uzbekistan - over entry and exit of foreign carriers at the checkpoints;
- The Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Uzbekistan - over the movement of foreign
road vehicles in the territory of the country;
- State Customs Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan - over technical condition,
allowable weight and dimension parameters of inbound vehicles, the availability of
gauges (taxographers) on board the vehicles in compliance with the European Covenant
(ECTP) [???] for international transport operations.”
II. In the CM Resolution No. 296 dated July 11, 1998 “On the Establishment of the
Uzbek Agency for Automobile and River Transport”:
(1) Paragraph 4 of the Clause 7 of the Resolution shall read as follows:
“revenues collected for registration and inspection of vessels on the basis of tariffs
approved by the Ministry of Finance, and other legitimate revenues”;
(2) In Annex 1:
Clause 6:
Paragraph 3 shall be canceled;
Paragraph 7 after the words “floating structures” shall be added to by the words “in
operation, as well as supervision over the observance of the Register Rules and other
regulatory documents governing the maintenance of vessels and floating structures, the
issuance of a vessel certificate, classification certificate, seaworthiness certificate,
[mineral] oil, sewage and solid waste contamination proof certificate and other
documents required by the Register Rules, by the River Navigation Register to the
vessels”;
To add the following paragraphs:
“Design tariff policy for road transport services together with the Ministry of Finance of
the Republic of Uzbekistan;
License, following the established procedure, carriers’ operations and control the
observance of licensing requirements and conditions in the road and river transport
sector;
Make, together with local governments, projections of public need for freight and
passenger transport, and coordinate operations of public road and river transport;
Facilitate the formation and development of road transport services market on the basis of
furthering privatization process in the sector, implementing and improving route
franchise mechanisms, creating equal operating conditions for the carriers of all forms of
ownership, pursuing consistent technical policy in the sphere of road transport services;
Approve, together with the Ministry of Interior, on the basis of proposals made by the
Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan and khokimiyats of Tashkent and
provinces, international and inter-province passenger routs;
Organize and carry out certification of road transport services;
Assist local governments, the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Emergencies of the
Republic of Uzbekistan in coordinating operations of special road transport units in the
situations of emergency and mobilization;
Carry out policy concerning training and retraining of staff employed in road and river
transport”;
Clause 7:
Paragraphs 2 and 3 shall read as follows:
“License, following the established procedure, operations of economic entities engaged in
road and river transport;
Control over the observance by the licensees of license requirements and conditions in
road and river transport sector”;
To add the following paragraph:
“Design, together with the Ministry of Finance, the tariff policy for road transport
services”;
Clause 8:
Paragraph 3 shall read as follows: “Carry out, following the established procedure,
scheduled and random checks over the observance of license requirements and conditions
by the licensees; to draft protocols (reference notes) on the basis of check results,
indicating concrete defaults; to make decisions obliging economic entities to eliminate
the identified defaults; to establish deadlines for the elimination of such defaults”;
To add the following paragraphs:
“Monitor the correctness of how vessels are operated, equipped and supplied with
inventory; monitor the observance of sailing and operational safety requirements; monitor
the condition of navigation lines and navigation situation; to examine skills and
knowledge of the vessel crews;
Prohibit the operation of vessels and floating structures if vessel documents are expired, if
vessels are not equipped with qualified crews, if there is no emergency-rescue and fire
safety equipment, if vessels show defects which threaten human safety, if operating, fire
safety, sanitary and environmental requirements are not complied with;
Prohibit the use of vessels if their condition does not secure safety navigation or mooring;
Design technical requirements for vessels to secure safe navigation, human safety, safe
transport of freight on inland waterways and to prevent vessel-caused pollution; to carry
out technical supervision over the fulfillment of these requirements; to perform
classification, certification and supervision over the vessels during their maintenance on
the basis of rules issued by the Register;
Control the observance by foreign and domestic carriers of the main terms and provisions
of international road and river transport agreements and covenants which Uzbekistan
joined”;
Clauses 10 and 11 shall read as follows:
“10. The Head of the Agency [UAART] shall have two deputies appointed by the Cabinet
of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
11. The Agency forms a collegium of 5 persons to comprise the Head of the Agency (as
Chairman of the collegium), his deputies and other executive officers of the Agency
system. Personal membership of the collegium is to be approved by the Cabinet of
Ministers”;
Clause 15 shall be added to by the following wording: “as well as proceeds [charged] for
registration and certification of vessels and other legitimate proceeds”.
III. The CM Resolution No. 422 dated October 2, 1998 “On making amendments to the
Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 296 dated July 11, 1998 “On the establishment of
the Uzbek Agency for Automobile and River Transport”” shall be considered null and
void.
IV. In the CM Resolution No. 368 dated July 29, 1999 “On Issues of organizing and
carrying out open tenders for suburban, inter-city and international road passenger
transport” (SP [?] of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 1999, No. 7, p. 44):
To cancel words “and Uzavtotrans Corporation”, “and Uzavtotrans Corporation” and
“Uzavtotrans Corporation” in clauses 1 and 6 of the Resolution and clause 4 of Annex 3;
In clause 4 of the Resolution the words “Uzavtotrans Corporation” shall be replaced with
the words “Uzbek Agency for Automobile and River Transport”;
In para 3 of clause 20 of Annex 2 the words “Uzavtotrans Corporation” shall be replaced
with the words “Uzbek Agency for Automobile and River Transport”.
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