﻿{"id":12783,"date":"2024-08-05T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/?p=12783"},"modified":"2024-08-05T12:03:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T07:03:05","slug":"o-reklame-zakon-respubliki-uzbekistan-dd-7-iyunya-2022-g-zru-776","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/zakonodatelstvo\/o-reklame-zakon-respubliki-uzbekistan-dd-7-iyunya-2022-g-zru-776\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT ADVERTISING LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN DD JUNE 7, 2022  NO. ZRU-776"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.2;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.2;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">JUNE 7, 2022<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.2;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">NO. ZRU-776<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.2;\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; height: 1em;\"><span style=\"display: none;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.2;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">ABOUT ADVERTISING<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.2;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Adopted by the Legislative Chamber on December 28, 2021<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.2;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Approved by the Senate on March 17, 2022<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.2;\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; height: 1em;\"><span style=\"display: none;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 1. Purpose of this Law<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The purpose of this Law is to regulate relations in the field of production, placement and distribution of advertising (hereinafter referred to as advertising circulation).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 2. Scope of this Law<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This Law applies to all relations in the field of advertising circulation, regardless of the place of its production, if this advertising <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is aimed<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> at consumption and distribution on the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This Law does not apply <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">to<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">1) <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">election<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> campaign materials;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">2) <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">information<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">, the disclosure or distribution or communication to the user of which is mandatory in accordance with the law;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">3) <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">reference<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">, information and analytical materials (reviews of domestic and foreign markets, results of scientific research and testing), which do not have as the main goal the promotion of goods on the market and are not social information;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">4) <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">information<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> on signs and indexes that do not contain advertising information;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">5) <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">announcements<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of individuals or legal entities not related to business activities;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">6) <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">information<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> about the product, its manufacturer, importer or exporter placed on the product or its packaging;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">7) <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">any<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> elements of product design placed on the product or its packaging and not related to another product;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">8) references to the product, the means of its individualization, the manufacturer or seller of the product, which are organically integrated into works of science, literature or art and are not in themselves information of an advertising nature;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">9) information on the worldwide Internet information network about manufactured or sold goods, posted on the websites of manufacturers and (or) sellers of goods or on pages on social networks, if the specified information is intended to inform visitors of the website or page on a social network about the range, rules of use and other characteristics (properties) of the goods sold;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">10) <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">results<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of issuing queries in information retrieval systems on the World Wide Web.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 3. Legislation on advertising<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The legislation on advertising consists of this Law and other acts of legislation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">If an international treaty of the Republic of Uzbekistan establishes rules other than those provided for by the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan on advertising, then the rules of the international treaty apply.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 4. Copyright and related rights to advertising<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising, in whole or in part, may be subject to copyright and related rights. In this case, copyright and related rights are subject to protection in accordance with the legislation on copyright and related rights and international treaties of the Republic of Uzbekistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 5. Basic concepts<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The following basic concepts apply in this Law:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">counter-advertising<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> &#8211; a refutation of unreliable advertising (unfair, deliberately false), distributed in order to eliminate the consequences caused by it or that could lead to them;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">unethical advertising <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8211; advertising that, by using offensive words, images and comparisons relating to gender, race, nationality, language, religion, social origin, beliefs, personal and social status of persons, violates generally accepted norms of humanity and morality, encroaches on objects of art, historical and architectural monuments that constitute national or world cultural heritage, discredits state symbols (flag, coat of arms, anthem), discredits the currency of the Republic of Uzbekistan;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">social information<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> &#8211; information, the dissemination of which does not have the purpose of direct or indirect profit (income), addressed to an indefinite circle of people and aimed at achieving socially beneficial goals in the areas of charity and healthcare, environmental protection, conservation of energy resources, crime prevention, social protection and public safety, spirituality and education, ensuring the interests of society and the state, as well as other information of a non-commercial nature;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">inappropriate<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> advertising<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> &#8211; false, unethical, hidden advertising, as well as other advertising that does not comply with the requirements of this Law;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">unreliable (unfair, deliberately false) advertising<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> &#8211; advertising that, as a result of inaccuracy, ambiguity, exaggeration, silence, violation of requirements regarding time, place and method of distribution and other requirements provided for by law, misleads or may mislead users of advertising, cause material damage losses and moral damage to legal entities and individuals, as well as to the interests of society and the state;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">incentive campaign<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> &#8211; advertising carried out in the form of an event, competition, game, encouraging advertising users to perform certain actions, including the condition of participation in which is the purchase of advertised goods;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">advertising <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8211; special information distributed using any advertising means, the content of which is addressed to advertising users located in the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and intended to attract attention to the object of advertising, generate or maintain interest in it, as well as its promotion on the market for the purpose of direct or indirect receipt of profit (income);<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">advertiser<\/span> <\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u2013<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> a<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> physical person<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> or <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">lega<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">l person <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">who is a resident or non-resident of the Republic of Uzbekistan, manufacturing or selling the advertised product, or another person who has determined the object of advertising and (or) the content of advertising, including a sponsor;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">advertising<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> means<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> &#8211; means used to bring advertising to the advertising user;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">advertising<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> space (location of an object (structure) of external advertising and information)<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> &#8211; a specially designated and (or) designated area (soil, asphalt, green area and others), a certain surface area of \u200b\u200ba building, structure on which an object (structure) of external advertising is installed and information;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">advertising space passport<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> &#8211; a document issued by the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, regional khokimiyats and the city of Tashkent, confirming the right of legal entities and individuals to place external advertising objects (structures) and information specified in this document on a land plot, building or structure, regardless of form their property;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">holder of an advertising space passport<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> &#8211; a <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">lega<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">l person <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">or <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">a<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> physical person<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> who has acquired the right to place an object (structure) of external advertising and information on a state-owned land plot, building or structure, on the basis of an open electronic auction through a single electronic trading platform or on privatized land plots , as well as buildings or structures that are privately owned &#8211; on the basis of an agreement concluded with the owner of the privatized land plot, building or structure;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">object of advertising<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> &#8211; a product to which advertising is aimed at attracting attention, including events, technologies, means of individualization, results of intellectual activity, as well as information about individuals or legal entities;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">advertising<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> activities<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> &#8211; activities related to the performance of works and services in the field of advertising circulation;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">advertising<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> producer<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">a<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> physical person<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">or <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">legal person <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">who is a resident or non-resident of the Republic of Uzbekistan, bringing information into a fully or partially ready form of advertising for distribution (placement);<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">advertising<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> distributor<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">a<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> physical person<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">or legal entity who is a resident or non-resident of the Republic of Uzbekistan, distributing advertising using advertising means;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">advertising<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> user<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> &#8211; a person or group of persons to whom the advertising is directed;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">external advertising<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> &#8211; graphic, text or other advertising, designed for visual perception of an indefinite number of people, placed on objects (structures) of external advertising and information;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">layout of objects (structures) of external advertising and information<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> &#8211; a document defining the location of objects (structures) of external advertising and information, the installation of which is allowed, containing data indicating their type, shape, technical characteristics, area of \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200binformation fields and developed on the basis of a territorial scheme planning;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">goods<\/span> <\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8211; a product of activity (including work, service) intended for sale, exchange or other introduction into circulation;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">integrated advertising<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> &#8211; advertising of goods in cinema, audio and video products, television and radio broadcasts, works of art, images, computer games and other works in the form of primary or secondary props, images of a trademark (service mark) corresponding to an existing product or a mention of it in any form;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">hidden<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> advertising<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> &#8211; advertising that has an unconscious impact on the user\u2019s perception of advertising through the use of special video inserts (double audio recording) and other methods;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">comparative<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> advertising<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> &#8211; advertising that directly or indirectly identifies a competitor or competitive product;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">sponsor &#8211;<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> a lega<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">l person or physical<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> person making a contribution in the form of providing property, money, results of intellectual activity, provision of services, performance of work for the organization and (or) holding of a sports, cultural or other event, creation and (or) broadcast of a television or radio program or creation and (or) use of another result of creative activity;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">sponsorship<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> advertising<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> &#8211; advertising distributed under the condition of mandatory mention in it of a certain person as a sponsor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 6. Language of advertising<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">On the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan, advertising <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is distributed<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> in the state language of the Republic of Uzbekistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Translation of advertising content <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">can be duplicated<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> in other languages \u200b\u200bsubject to the following requirements:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">the<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> text of the translation of the advertising content in other languages \u200b\u200bshould not distort its main meaning in the state language of the Republic of Uzbekistan;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">translation<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> text of advertising in other languages \u200b\u200bplaced through external advertising must be placed horizontally at the bottom of the advertising text in the state language of the Republic of Uzbekistan and should not exceed forty percent of the total advertising area;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">the<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> font size of the text of the translation of advertising in other languages \u200b\u200bmust be less than the font size of the advertising text in the state language of the Republic of Uzbekistan;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">translation<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of advertising in other languages \u200b\u200bdistributed on television and radio channels, as well as in print media, should not exceed twenty percent of the daily total volume of advertising.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Parts <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">one<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> and two of this article do not apply to advertising placed in:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">printed<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> publications and other types of publishing products published exclusively in foreign languages;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">during<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the broadcast of television, radio, video, newsreel programs and other media materials broadcasting in foreign languages;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">information<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> resources of websites on the World Wide Web, posting materials exclusively in foreign languages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Trademarks (service marks) and syllabaries in typographical typesetting (logos) registered in accordance with the established procedure may be shown in the original language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">CHAPTER 2. REGULATION IN THE FIELD OF ADVERTISING CIRCULATION<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 7. Powers of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the field of advertising circulation<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">ensures<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the implementation of a unified state policy in the field of advertising circulation;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">establishes<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the procedure for the production and placement of external advertising;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">establishes<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the procedure for determining differentiated fees for the right to place external advertising;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">approves<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the General Technical Regulations for the safety of objects (structures) of external advertising and information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan may exercise other powers in accordance with the legislation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 8. Powers of the authorized state body in the field of advertising circulation<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The authorized state body in the field of advertising circulation is the Committee for the Development of Competition and Protection of Consumer Rights of the Republic of Uzbekistan (hereinafter referred to as the authorized state body).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Authorized state body:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">implements<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> a unified state policy in the field of advertising circulation;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">ensures<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> compliance with advertising legislation;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">develops<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> state programs in the field of advertising circulation and organizes their implementation;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">coordinates<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the activities of state and economic management bodies, local government bodies in the field of advertising circulation;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">participates<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> in the development of regulations in the field of advertising circulation;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">provides<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> clarifications on the application of advertising legislation;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">interacts<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> with domestic and foreign research institutions and educational organizations in the field of advertising circulation;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">develops<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> General Technical Regulations for the safety of objects (structures) of external advertising and information;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">sends<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> a request to subjects of advertising activities to submit documents and materials related to advertising information;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">identifies<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> cases of violation of the requirements of the legislation on advertising by subjects of advertising activities and takes measures to eliminate them;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">attracts<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">, if necessary, experts and specialists to obtain opinions and explanations in order to establish facts of violation of the requirements of advertising legislation;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">makes<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> decisions on the application of financial sanctions against subjects of advertising activities in the manner prescribed by law;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">together with associations of subjects of advertising activities and other civil society institutions, promotes the creation of favorable conditions for the development of the advertising market in the Republic of Uzbekistan, based on the principles of fair competition and compliance with the rule of law, and also promotes the introduction of self-regulatory mechanisms in the field of advertising circulation;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">carries<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> out international cooperation in the field of advertising circulation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The authorized state body may exercise other powers in accordance with the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Decisions of the authorized state body, adopted within the limits of its powers, are binding on state and economic management bodies, local government bodies, and economic entities, including advertising entities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 9. Powers of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, regional khokimiyats and the city of Tashkent in the field of advertising circulation<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, khokimiyats of regions and the city of Tashkent within the relevant administrative-territorial units:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">assist<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the authorized state body in the implementation of a unified state policy in the field of advertising circulation;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">participate<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> in the implementation of government programs in the field of advertising circulation;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">create<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> lists of land plots, buildings and structures proposed for the placement of objects (structures) of external advertising and information;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">on the basis of open electronic auctions through a single electronic trading platform, competitions are held to obtain the right to place objects (structures) of external advertising and information on land plots, buildings and structures owned by the state;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">send<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> a request to subjects of advertising activities to submit documents and materials related to the use of external advertising objects;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">issue<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">, in accordance with the legislation, passports for advertising places of objects (structures) of external advertising and information and enter into agreements for the placement of objects (structures) of external advertising and information on land plots, buildings and structures, regardless of the form of ownership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, regional khokimiyats and the city of Tashkent may exercise other powers in accordance with the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 10. Association of subjects of advertising activities<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">An association of subjects of advertising activities is a non-governmental non-profit organization registered in accordance with the procedure established by law, uniting subjects of advertising activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The association of subjects of advertising activities <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is designed<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> to promote the creation of favorable conditions for the development of the advertising market in the Republic of Uzbekistan, based on the principles of fair competition and compliance with the rule of law, as well as the protection of the professional interests of subjects of advertising activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Association of subjects of advertising activities:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">implements<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> measures aimed at protecting the rights and legitimate interests of its members;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">takes<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> initiatives aimed at developing advertising activities, makes appropriate proposals to government and administrative bodies, local government bodies;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">develops and adopts codes of advertising practice, which are a set of provisions defining requirements for maintaining high ethical standards of marketing and advertising activities using self-regulatory mechanisms based on the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">participates<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> in organizing measures for public monitoring and accounting in the field of advertising circulation;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">at<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the request of the authorized government body, provides conclusions and explanations on the compliance of advertising with legal requirements;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">prepares<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> proposals to improve advertising legislation;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">maintains<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> registers of members of the association of subjects of advertising activities and places them on its official website;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">if<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> necessary, organizes and takes part in specialized events in the field of advertising circulation (exhibitions, fairs, conferences and others), including those with international participation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">An association of subjects of advertising activities may also perform other functions in accordance with the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">CHAPTER 3. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF SUBJECTS OF ADVERTISING ACTIVITIES<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 11. Subjects of advertising activities<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The subjects of advertising activities are advertisers, advertising producers, and advertising distributors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 12. Rights and obligations of the advertiser<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The advertiser has the right:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">for<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> a public offer to conclude an advertising agreement (public offer), including in electronic form;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">independently<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> determine advertising means, as well as the sizes and forms of presentation of advertising materials, except for cases established by law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The advertiser is obliged:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">provide<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">, if necessary, documentary evidence of the accuracy of advertising information at the request of the manufacturer and (or) advertising distributor;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">provide the manufacturer and distributor of advertising with the appropriate license or permitting document, if the advertised activity is subject to licensing or its conduct requires obtaining a permitting document, respectively, and also present a certificate in the case of advertising a product subject to mandatory certification;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">carry<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> out counter-advertising by decision of the authorized state body within the period specified by it if the authorized state body establishes a violation of the legislation on advertising;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">at<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the request of the authorized state body, submit documents and materials of advertising information within the prescribed period;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">at<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the request of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, regional khokimiyats and the city of Tashkent, submit documents and materials related to the use of outdoor advertising objects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The advertiser may have other rights and bear other obligations in accordance with the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 13. Rights and obligations of the manufacturer and distributor of advertising<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The manufacturer and distributor of advertising have the right to sell their goods (work, services) in advertising activities at prices and tariffs established independently, based on market conditions or on a contractual basis, with the exception of cases provided for by law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The manufacturer and distributor of advertising are obliged to:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">demand from the advertiser the appropriate license, permitting document and certificate of conformity in the cases provided for in paragraph three of part two of Article 12 of this Law;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">ensure<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> non-disclosure of information received from other subjects of advertising activities on confidentiality terms;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">at<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the request of the authorized state body, submit documents and materials of advertising information within the period established by it;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">at<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the request of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, regional khokimiyats and the city of Tashkent, submit documents and materials related to the use of outdoor advertising objects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The manufacturer and distributor of advertising may have other rights and bear other obligations in accordance with the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 14. Obligation of subjects of advertising activities to provide information<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Subjects of advertising activities are obliged, at the justified request of the authorized state body, as well as the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, regional khokimiyats and the city of Tashkent, within seven days from the date of receipt of such a request, provide reliable documents and explanations in oral or written form, video and sound recordings, as well as other information necessary for the exercise by these bodies of the powers provided for by this Law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 15. Storage periods for documents and advertising information materials<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Documents and materials of advertising information consist of contracts for the preparation, distribution (placement) of advertising, the amount of advertising in kind and in cash, printed and published materials (advertising), samples, video and audio materials, as well as other recorded media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Subjects of advertising activities are required to store documents and materials of advertising information or copies thereof, including all subsequent changes made to them, for three years from the date of the last publication (transmission, distribution) of advertising (except for cases where the law provides for longer periods of storage of documents and advertising materials), and in the event of a dispute regarding advertising &#8211; until this dispute is resolved in the manner prescribed by law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">CHAPTER 4. GENERAL AND SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ADVERTISING<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 16. Basic requirements for advertising<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Inappropriate advertising <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is not permitted<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Comparative advertising <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is allowed<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> if the advertiser can provide factual evidence of the reliability of the advertised comparison, if the advertisement does not and cannot mislead the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">advertising user, does not discredit the business reputation of a competitor or its trademark (service mark), trade name, product or activity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The following <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is prohibited<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> in advertising:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">discrimination<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> on the basis of gender, race, nationality, language, religion, social origin, beliefs, personal and social status, or other circumstances or discrediting the goods of others;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">call<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> for actions that may entail a violation of the law, cause or may cause harm to the life or health of citizens and the environment, and also encourage neglect of safety measures;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">imitate the general solution, text, image, musical or sound effects used in advertising of another product or used in video and film production, as well as in other works of science, literature and art (copyright), performances, phonograms, broadcasts of broadcasting or cable broadcasting organizations , unless otherwise provided by legislation on copyright and related rights;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">use<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the name or image of an individual without his consent;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">use<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> pornographic information;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">use<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> foreign words and expressions that may distort the meaning of information;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">indicate<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> that the product has been approved by government agencies or their officials;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">advertise a product under the guise of advertising another product, the trademark (service mark) of which is identical or confusingly similar to the trademark (service mark) of a product, advertising of which is prohibited or for the advertising of which corresponding restrictions or requirements are established;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">use or imitate state symbols, namely the image of the State Emblem of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the State Flag of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the sound of the National Anthem of the Republic of Uzbekistan;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">advertise products in printed publications (textbooks, school diaries, school notebooks and others) used in preschool education and upbringing, general secondary, secondary special and vocational education;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">indicate<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> prices (tariffs) in foreign currency;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">advertise<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> information products without indicating the age classification in cases provided for by legislation on the protection of children from information harmful to their health;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">keep<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> silent about essential information about the product, the conditions for its acquisition or use and (or) display it in a way that is difficult to read, if this distorts the meaning of the information and misleads advertising users;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">the<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> use of forms, phrases and images that are contrary to national and family traditions, as well as generally accepted norms of morality and morality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is prohibited<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">goods<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">, the production or sale of which is prohibited by law;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">goods<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> in the absence of appropriate certificates and licenses, certificates of mandatory certification or special permits for their production and (or) sale;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">narcotic<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> drugs or psychotropic and (or) potent substances;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">pornographic<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In relation to advertising of certain types of goods, requirements may be established regarding the need to accompany this advertising with additional information and (or) warnings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Distribution of advertising <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is not allowed<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> in cases where the advertiser and the distributor of advertising are simultaneously non-residents of the Republic of Uzbekistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 17. Protection of minors in advertising<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In order to protect minors from abuse of their trust and lack of experience in advertising, it <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is prohibited<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">use<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of images of minors consuming or using products prohibited for consumption by minors;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">the<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> use of showing minors in dangerous situations, including situations that encourage them to commit actions that pose a threat to their life and (or) health, including causing harm to their health;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">encourage<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> minors to purchase goods or encourage them to contact third parties with a request to purchase advertised goods;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">use<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of real or toy weapons;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">discrediting<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> parents and educators, undermining trust in them among minors;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">advertise<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> goods prohibited for purchase or consumption by minors on television channels, television and radio programs intended for minors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 18. Identification of advertising<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">must be distinguished<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> from other information, regardless of form or means of distribution, in such a way that it can be identified as advertising. This requirement does not apply to integrated advertising.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising on television and radio <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">should be separated<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> from other programs at the beginning and end of the program by audio, video, mixed media or commentary by presenters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising in print publications <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">must be separated<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> from other information with the word \u201cAdvertising\u201d indicated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Information, author&#8217;s and editorial material published for the purpose of direct or indirect receipt of profit (income) by the advertiser, purposefully drawing the attention of advertising users to a specific brand (name, model, article) of a product or its manufacturer to generate interest and promote the sale of the product, or containing output data (details) of the person producing or distributing the specified product is considered advertising and should be placed under the heading \u201cAdvertising\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 19. Sponsorship and partnership in advertising<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Sponsors and partners can participate in the creation of television and radio programs, the organization of theater, concerts, sports and other events broadcast on television and radio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Information about sponsors and partners of broadcast television and radio programs <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">should be briefly and clearly indicated<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> at the beginning and end of the program. Next to the name (title) of the sponsor, its trademark (service mark) <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">may be indicated<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Sponsorship and partner designations may contain an indication of the sponsor and (or) partner in the form &#8211; \u201cProgram Sponsor\u201d and (or) \u201cProgram Partner\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The duration of sponsorship and partner symbols on television channels cannot exceed five seconds, and on radio channels &#8211; twenty seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 20. Social information<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">All requirements established for the circulation of advertising apply to the circulation of social information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertisers of social information can be government and administrative bodies, as well as individuals and legal entities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The activities of individuals and legal entities in the production and distribution (posting) of social information free of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">charge,<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> transfer of their property (including funds) to other persons for the production and distribution (posting) of social information are recognized as charitable. Such persons enjoy benefits provided by law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In social information, mention of specific brands (names, models, articles) of goods, trademarks (service marks) of manufacturers and other means of their individualization <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is not allowed<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">, and the pursuit of goals of direct or indirect profit (income) is not allowed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In social information distributed in radio and television programs, mentions of sponsors cannot exceed three seconds, and such a mention <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">should be allocated<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> no more than seven percent of the frame area, and in social information distributed by other means, no more than five percent of the advertising area (<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">space)<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Mass media, distributors of external advertising and information are required to post social information in an amount of at least five percent of the total monthly airtime, print or advertising space allocated for advertising. At the same time, advertising distributors whose activities are fully financed from the State Budget of the Republic of Uzbekistan and (or) with the state\u2019s share in their authorized capital (authorized capital) in the amount of fifty percent or more, by order of government bodies and local government authorities, post social information for free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 21. Organization and conduct of incentive campaigns<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">When conducting incentive promotions with the distribution and (or) drawing of valuable prizes or requiring the advertising user to perform any actions to participate in these promotions, the advertiser is obliged to publish the conditions for participation in it in the media and (or) information resources before the start of the incentive promotion on the worldwide information network Internet, to which there is free access.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The publication of the conditions for carrying out incentive promotions must contain:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">rules for conducting an incentive promotion, indicating the timing, name, quantity, place and procedure for receiving prizes and winnings, as well as any other information regarding the conditions for conducting an incentive promotion;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">name<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">, address, contact details (telephone, email address and other data) of the advertiser;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">legal<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> name, location (postal address), contact details (telephone number, email address and other data) of the organizer of the promotion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">If the conditions for participation in information resources <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">are published<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> on the Internet, free access to the publication must be open for at least six months after the end of the promotion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Incentive promotions <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">may be accompanied<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> by the free distribution of goods and exchange for competitive goods (with the exception of goods whose advertising is prohibited by this Law) or the provision of services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Conducting drawings of valuable <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">prizes,<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> as part of incentive promotions <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is not considered<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> a lottery, provided that:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">the prize fund, as well as the costs of organizing the promotion, are not generated through direct cash contributions from participants in the promotion or through the sale of tickets and other nominal units not related to the advertised product of the advertiser;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">participation<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> in the promotion is solely of an advertising nature and aims to increase sales of the advertiser\u2019s advertised product.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Information about incentive promotions should not contain statements that exaggerate the likelihood of winning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is prohibited<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> to organize and conduct incentive promotions without the presence of an appropriate prize fund.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 22. Counter-advertising<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">If an authorized state body establishes a violation of advertising legislation, the violator, by decision of this body and within the period specified by it, is obliged to carry out counter-advertising.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Counter-advertising <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">can be carried out<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> voluntarily or in accordance with a decision of an authorized government body or by a court decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">If the violator does not carry out counter-advertising on time, the authorized state body has the right to decide to fully or partially suspend the violator\u2019s advertising until he carries out counter-advertising and notify the parties who have entered into an agreement with the violator of the advertising legislation about this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Counter-advertising is carried out in the same advertising media, using the same duration, space, location and order as the refuted advertisement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The content of counter-advertising <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is agreed<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> upon with the authorized government body that established the fact of the violation and made a decision to correct it. In exceptional cases, by decision of this body, replacement of the advertising medium, duration, space, place and procedure for carrying out counter-advertising <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">may be allowed<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">All costs of counter-advertising are borne by the offender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">CHAPTER 5. EXTERNAL ADVERTISING<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 23. Objects (structures) of external advertising and information<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Objects (structures) of outdoor advertising and information are specially designed and used means for placing (distributing) outdoor advertising, as well as technical means (structures) that perform the functions of conveying information to the population (pylons, portable advertising structures (column, poster), <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">prismatrons<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">, projection structures, billboards, video screens, electronic displays and other technical means).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Objects (structures) of external advertising and information <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">can be placed<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> on:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">land<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> plots;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">surfaces<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of buildings, structures or their complexes (roof, facade, walls);<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">bridges<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> and overpasses;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">public<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> transport stops, city furniture (parking lots, cabinets, payphones and others);<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">other<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> external infrastructure objects in a certain territory (urban environment).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The urban environment refers to the environment of residence and (or) activity of the population within the boundaries of the city, including material objects of production, social, engineering, transport infrastructure, air and underground space (except for metro infrastructure) and having commercial value for the purposes of placing objects (structures) of external advertising and information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The placement of an object (structure) of external advertising and information is the installation of technical means specifically designed and used for the placement (distribution) of external advertising and information or placement (distribution) on technical means not specifically intended for the placement of external advertising and information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, khokimiyats of regions and the city of Tashkent approve the zonal distribution of territories reflecting the commercial value of the land plot for placing objects (structures) of external advertising and information on it, standards for distances between installed objects (structures) of external advertising and information, determine the procedure for incentives placement and operation of new types of high-tech objects (structures) of external advertising and information, exercise control over the payment of fees for the placement of external advertising, maintaining a register of passports of advertising places.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, regional khokimiyats and the city of Tashkent approve schemes for the placement of objects (structures) of external advertising and information on land plots, regardless of the form of ownership, as well as on buildings or other real estate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The layout of external advertising and information objects (structures) must comply with urban planning documents and ensure compliance with the external architectural appearance of the existing development, urban planning norms and rules, safety requirements and contain maps of the placement of advertising structures indicating the types and forms of advertising structures, the area of \u200b\u200binformation fields and technical characteristics of advertising structures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The layout of objects (structures) of external advertising and information and changes made to it are subject to prior approval with the authorized government body.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The layout of objects (structures) of external advertising and information and changes made to it are subject to publication on the official websites of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, regional khokimiyats and the city of Tashkent on the Internet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 24. The right to place objects (structures) of external advertising and information on land plots, buildings and structures<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The right to place objects (structures) of external advertising and information on land plots, buildings and structures <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">can be granted<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> to legal entities or individuals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The right to place objects (structures) of external advertising and information on land plots, buildings and structures owned by the state is granted on the basis of open electronic auctions through a single electronic trading platform, except for the cases provided for in part three of this article.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The right to place objects (structures) of external advertising and information on land plots, buildings and structures without holding open electronic auctions through a single electronic trading platform has legal entities and individuals who, before the entry into force of this Law, were issued a passport for advertising space in accordance with the law, valid at the time of issue of this passport.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> After the expiration of the advertising space passport, legal entities or individuals may acquire the right to place external advertising objects (structures) and information based on the results of an open electronic auction through a single electronic trading platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The right to place objects (structures) of external advertising and information on privatized land plots, as well as privately owned buildings and structures, can be granted to legal entities or individuals on the basis of agreements concluded with the owners of privatized land plots, buildings and structures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 25. Passport of advertising space for objects (structures) of external advertising and information on land plots, buildings and structures<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Legal entities or individuals, based on the results of an open electronic auction through a single electronic trading platform, acquire the right to receive a passport for advertising space on land plots for a period of ten years, and on buildings and structures owned by the state &#8211; for five years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Legal entities or individuals acquire the right to receive a passport for advertising space on privatized land plots, as well as privately owned buildings and structures, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">on the basis of<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> agreements concluded with the owners of privatized land plots, buildings and structures. In this case, the advertising space passport <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is issued<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> for the period established in these agreements, but cannot exceed ten years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The owner of a passport of an advertising space for placing an object (structure) of external advertising and information on a state-owned land plot is provided with the corresponding land plot on a lease basis, and for placing an object (structure) of external advertising and information on a building or structure located in the state property, a lease agreement is concluded with the owner of the advertising space passport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">If it is impossible to temporarily use a state-owned land plot, building or structure, specified in the passport of an advertising space for placing objects (structures) of external advertising and information (carrying out construction work on a land plot, reconstruction and repair of buildings and structures, etc.), the holder of a passport for an advertising space, by decision of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, regional khokimiyats and the city of Tashkent, is provided with an equivalent place with payment of compensation for installation (installation), dismantling and transfer of an object (structure) of external advertising and information, and in case of failure to provide a land plot, building or structure \u2014 costs associated with the installation and dismantling of an external advertising and information object (structure), the acquisition of the right to place an external advertising and information object (structure), and the estimated cost of the structure are compensated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">If, upon completion of development work, landscaping of territories, construction, reconstruction or repair of buildings (structures) and others, it is possible to place an object <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">(structure) of external advertising and information in the same place, then by decision of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, regional khokimiyats and the city of Tashkent the previous owner of the advertising space passport is issued a passport for the same advertising space with an extension of its validity in proportion to the time of cancellation of the previously valid advertising space passport and compensation is paid for the installation (installation) and dismantling of the object (structure) of external advertising and information in accordance with this Law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Objects (structures) of external advertising and information placed on land plots, buildings and structures that do not have a passport for advertising space are subject to dismantling by decision of the authorized government body.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 26. Basic requirements for objects (structures) of external advertising and information<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Objects (structures) of external advertising and information must:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">comply<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> with the requirements stipulated by the General Technical Regulations for the safety of objects (structures) of external advertising and information;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">used<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> solely for the purpose of distributing advertising in accordance with the passport of the advertising space;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">be<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> installed within six months from the date of issue of the advertising space passport;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">comply<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> with the layout of objects (structures) of external advertising and information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is prohibited<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> to install external advertising and information objects (structures) with access to the roadway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is prohibited<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> to place external advertising on objects of tangible cultural heritage, road signs and traffic lights, their supports or on any other device designed to regulate traffic, as well as in violation of the landscaping elements of the adjacent territory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Holders of advertising space passports are required <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">to promptly pay<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> fees for installed outdoor advertising and information objects (structures).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Failure by the owner of the advertising space passport to comply with the requirements provided for in this article is grounds for cancellation of the advertising space passport. In case of cancellation of the advertising space passport, the right to place objects (structures) of external advertising and information on state-owned land plots, buildings and structures specified in the advertising space passport is put up for sale at an open electronic auction through a single electronic trading platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">CHAPTER 6. FEATURES OF ADVERTISING DISTRIBUTION THROUGH CERTAIN TYPES OF ADVERTISING MEDIA<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 27. Advertising on television<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The total duration of advertising distributed on television channels, television, video, and newsreel programs (including such advertising as TV store advertising) cannot exceed twenty percent of the broadcast time in an hour, but not more than fifteen percent of the broadcast per day. This requirement does not apply to television channels that specialize exclusively in advertising television programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is not allowed<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> to interrupt with advertising or combine with advertising television programs lasting less than ten minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Broadcast of live or recorded sports competitions (including sports matches, games, fights, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">races<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">) may be interrupted by advertising, including sponsorship advertising, only during breaks during sports competitions or during their stops, unless otherwise provided in agreement between the TV channel and the copyright holder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Prohibited:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">interrupt<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the broadcast of government events and ceremonies for the purpose of advertising;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">set the volume level of the sound of advertising and advertisement announcements, including TV program announcements, higher than those interrupted by advertisements and advertisement announcements of a TV program or TV show;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">when<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> broadcasting television programs, use the creeping line for advertising purposes, with the exception of during an advertising block;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">insert<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> video boards (commercial information that pops up during television programs) in television programs, with the exception of its demonstration during the broadcast of the advertisement itself, as well as a program aired as an advertisement. In this case, the size of the video block cannot exceed ten percent of the screen and must be located in the lower part in a horizontal state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The requirements of parts one and two of this article do not apply <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">to<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">information<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> posted in television programs about television programs broadcast on the relevant television channel;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">TV program logo and information about this TV program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">If it is impossible to ensure compliance of the distributed advertising information with the requirements provided for in Article 16 of this Law, when rebroadcasting foreign TV channels, the programs of such channels <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">are provided<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> to advertising users without advertising information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 28. Radio advertising<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The total duration of distributed advertising on the radio, interruption of radio programs by advertising cannot exceed twenty percent of the broadcast time in an hour, but not more than fifteen percent of the broadcast per day. This requirement does not apply to radio channels whose broadcasting specializes exclusively in advertising radio programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Broadcast of live or recorded sports competitions (including sports matches, games, fights, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">races<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">) may be interrupted by advertising, including sponsorship advertising, only during breaks during sports competitions or during their stops, unless otherwise provided in agreement between the radio channel and the copyright holder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Prohibited:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">interrupt<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the broadcast of government events and ceremonies for the purpose of advertising;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">set<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the volume level of the sound of advertisements and announcements, including announcements about radio broadcasts, higher than those interrupted by advertisements and announcements about radio broadcast advertisements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">If it is impossible to ensure compliance of the distributed advertising information with the requirements provided for in Article 16 of this Law, when rebroadcasting foreign radio channels, the programs of such channels <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">are provided<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> to advertising users without advertising information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 29. Advertising in print media<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The volume of advertising in print media should not exceed forty percent of the volume of one issue of a periodical. This requirement does not apply to print media specializing exclusively in advertising.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 30. Advertising in the provision of telecommunications services<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Distribution of advertising in the provision of telecommunications services <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is permitted<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> only with the prior consent of the subscriber.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For telephone directory services, advertisements <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">should be provided<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> only after the requested information has been provided. In this case, the time of presentation of advertising <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">should not be taken<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> into account when determining the cost of the service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The advertising user to whom advertising <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is provided<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> using local, long-distance or international telephone voice communication must be notified in advance:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">that<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the information provided is advertising;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">about<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> paid or free provision of advertising information and its cost;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">about<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> age and other restrictions established by law and the manufacturer of the service in relation to the advertised product.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is prohibited<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> to use the numbers of emergency operational services (fire department, internal affairs bodies, ambulance, gas network emergency service and others) to distribute advertising.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 31. Advertising distributed through the Internet<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising distributed through the worldwide information network Internet must comply with the basic requirements for advertising provided for in Article 16 of this Law, including the requirement that the distribution of advertising is inadmissible in cases where the advertiser and the distributor of advertising are both non-residents of the Republic of Uzbekistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Legislation may establish additional requirements for the circulation of advertising on information resources in the \u201cUZ\u201d domain zone on the worldwide Internet information network.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 32. Internal advertising<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Indoor advertising is advertising placed inside premises.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Internal advertising formats are determined by the owner of its location<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is prohibited<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> to place indoor advertising on the premises of state bodies and self-government bodies of citizens, preschool educational organizations, general secondary, secondary special and vocational educational organizations, with the exception of social information and cases provided for by law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 33. Advertising on transport<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising on vehicles is carried out in compliance with road safety rules <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">on the basis of<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> agreements with the owners of vehicles and with persons who have other proprietary rights to vehicles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is prohibited<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> to distribute advertising through sound networks for warning passengers in public vehicles, at metro stations, train stations, ports and airports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">CHAPTER 7. FEATURES OF ADVERTISING OF CERTAIN TYPES OF GOODS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 34. Advertising of medicines<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising of medicines <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is prohibited<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">distributed<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> only with a doctor&#8217;s prescription;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">containing<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> narcotic drugs or psychotropic and (or) potent substances;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">not<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> approved for medical use in the Republic of Uzbekistan;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">who<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> have not passed state registration with the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Uzbekistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In advertising of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">medicines<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> it is prohibited:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">the<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> participation of famous persons, medical professionals or persons whose appearance imitates the appearance of doctors. This requirement does not apply to advertising used exclusively by medical and pharmaceutical workers, to advertising distributed at medical or pharmaceutical exhibitions, seminars, conferences and other similar events, as well as to advertising placed in print media;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">the use of recommendations from scientists, medical professionals, as well as those containing gratitude, recommendations and stories about the actions of advertised medicines from individuals;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">use<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of a video clip, image or visual representation of changes in the human body due to illness (injury) and (or) the effects of drugs on the human body. This requirement does not apply to the image or visual representation of changes in the human body associated with the administration or consumption of a medicinal product, the effects of which have been clinically proven and the depicted process of changes in the human body accurately conveys the clinically proven effect of the medicinal product on the human body;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">promoting<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> excessive and inappropriate use of drugs;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">creating<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> an impression (belief) about the possibility of self-treatment without consulting a doctor or performing surgical intervention;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">advertising<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> referring to specific cases of successful use of medicines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising of over-the-counter medicines must not:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">present<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the drug as unique, the most effective, the safest in terms of the absence of side effects;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">mislead<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> regarding the composition, origin, novelty or patentability of a medicinal product;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">claim<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> that a medicinal product is a dietary supplement, a cosmetic or hygiene product, or any other type of product;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">allow<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> incorrect comparisons with other medicines in order to enhance the advertising effect;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">contain<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> statements that the effect of this medicinal product is guaranteed;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">suggest<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> that a person\u2019s health may be worsened by not using the drug.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising of over-the-counter medicines <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">must be accompanied<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> in each case by a warning about the presence of contraindications to their use and use, the need to read the instructions for use or obtain specialist advice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is prohibited<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> to carry out incentive campaigns in the field of advertising of medicines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising of medicines intended for medical workers and medical institutions must fully comply with the list of scientific data on medicines and contain the following information:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">name<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of the active substance;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">active<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> substance content per dosage (release form);<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">side<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> effects and major adverse reactions;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">information<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> on contraindications, warnings and cases when this medicinal product should be used with caution;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">interaction<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> with other drugs;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">a<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> link to relevant scientific sources, as well as the possibility and source of obtaining additional information;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">information<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> that the users of this advertisement are exclusively medical and pharmaceutical workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 35. Advertising of biologically active food additives and food additives<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising of biologically active food additives and nutritional supplements must not:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">create<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the impression that they are medicines and\/or have medicinal properties;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">contain<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> references to specific cases of healing people, improving their condition as a result of their use;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">contain<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> an expression of gratitude by individuals in connection with their use;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">encourage<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> people to give up healthy eating;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">create<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> an impression of the advantages of biologically active food additives and food additives over medicines by referring to facts about research, state registration, as well as using the results of other studies in the form of a direct recommendation for their use;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">use<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> images of children in advertising of biologically active food additives and food additives prohibited for purchase or consumption by minors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising of biologically active food additives and nutritional supplements in each case <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">must be accompanied<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> by a warning that the object of advertising is not a medicine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is prohibited<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> to carry out incentive campaigns for advertising biologically active food additives and nutritional supplements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 36. Prohibition of advertising of breast milk substitute products<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising substitute products<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">of breast milk<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is prohibited<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 37. Advertising of energy drinks<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising of energy drinks in each case must contain a warning about the dangers of excessive consumption of such drinks, as well as information about persons to whom they <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">are not recommended<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising of energy drinks must not:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">demonstrate<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the processes of energy drink consumption;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">contain<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> images of people who have achieved success in sports;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">create<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the impression that the consumption of energy drinks is important for achieving social and athletic success or improving the physical and mental well-being of advertising users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Prohibited:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">advertising<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of energy drinks on television and radio from 7:00 to 22:00;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">advertising<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of energy drinks through objects (structures) of external advertising and information;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">free<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> distribution of samples of energy drinks for advertising purposes among minors;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">advertising<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of energy drinks to minors;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Sponsoring events intended primarily for minors, if the name, trademark (service mark) or image of energy drinks is used<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">distribution, including sale of goods (T-shirts, hats, games and others) to minors using the name, trademark (service mark) or image of energy drinks;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">advertising<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of energy drinks in printed publications intended primarily for children and adolescents, as well as in medical, sports and educational institutions and organizations;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">carrying<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> out incentive campaigns using energy drinks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 38. Advertising of alcoholic products<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising of alcoholic products of any strength <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is not allowed<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">, except for the cases provided for in Article 39 of this Law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is prohibited<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> to promote the sale of alcoholic beverages by:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">free<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> distribution of samples of alcoholic products;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">sponsoring<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> events that use the name, trademark (service mark) or image of alcoholic products;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">distribution, including the sale of goods (T-shirts, hats, games and others) using the name, trademark (service mark) or image of alcoholic products, as well as alcoholic products imitating children&#8217;s toys, candies or other children&#8217;s products;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">carrying<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> out any other types of incentive promotions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In advertising of any other products, it <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is not allowed<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> to demonstrate the process of consuming alcoholic beverages, as well as creating the impression that this process is important <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">for achieving social and sports success or improving the physical and mental well-being of advertising users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 39. Advertising of beer, natural and sparkling wines<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising of natural beer and sparkling wines <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is allowed<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> in the following cases:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">in<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the halls of hotels, trade and catering establishments where such products are traded, as well as in places where they are displayed and tasted;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">on<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the official web pages on the worldwide Internet information network of producers and persons selling beer, natural and sparkling wines, indicating the age classification of the information product;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">in<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> railway and air transport;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">on<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> television and radio from 23-00 to 07-00 local time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising of beer, natural and sparkling wines:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">must<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> be accompanied by a warning about the dangers of excessive consumption of such products, occupying at least ten percent of the main area and time of advertising, and information about persons whose use of these products is not recommended;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">should not demonstrate the processes of consumption of such products, create the impression that these processes are important for achieving social and sports success or improving physical and mental well-being;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">should not consist of actions aimed at disseminating, in open or hidden form, ideas, views and artistic images that form in an individual the idea that their use is harmless;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">should<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> not use a human image.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">When advertising beer, natural and sparkling wines, it <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is not allowed<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">holding<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> promotions or other similar events;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">sponsoring<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> cultural, entertainment, social and sporting events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 40. Advertising of tobacco products and devices for the use of tobacco and nicotine<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising of tobacco products and devices for the use of tobacco and nicotine <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is not allowed<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is not permitted<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> to promote the sale of tobacco products and devices for the use of tobacco and nicotine by:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">free<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> distribution of samples of tobacco products and devices for the use of tobacco and nicotine, as well as the application of discounts on them;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">sponsoring<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> events that use the name, trademark (service mark) or image of tobacco products and devices for the use of tobacco and nicotine;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">distribution, including the sale of goods (T-shirts, hats, games and others) using the name, trademark (service mark) or image of tobacco products and devices for the use of tobacco and nicotine, as well as tobacco products and devices for the use of tobacco and nicotine imitating children&#8217;s toys, candies or other children&#8217;s products;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">establishing images, names and other information about tobacco products and devices for the use of tobacco and nicotine on the facade, entrance (entrance), shop windows, on take-out items and other places of retail facilities;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">use of any terms, descriptions, signs, symbols, images or other designations associated with tobacco products, devices for the use of tobacco and nicotine, in the production of other types of goods that are not tobacco products, devices for the use of tobacco and nicotine, accessories or individual parts of data devices;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">holding<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> promotions or other similar events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In advertising of any other products, it is not allowed to demonstrate the process of consuming tobacco products and using devices for consuming tobacco and nicotine, as well as creating the impression that this process is important for achieving social and sports success or improving the physical and mental well-being of advertising users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 41. Advertising of pyrotechnics, weapons and ammunition for them, and military products<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising of pyrotechnics, all types of weapons and ammunition for them, their complete parts, explosives and devices, equipment, military products, with the exception of hunting and sporting weapons permitted for storage and use, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is prohibited<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising of hunting and sporting weapons <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is carried out<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> only in specialized publications, as well as directly on the premises of trade organizations that sell such weapons, or at relevant exhibitions (events).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising of hunting and sporting weapons must not:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">be<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> directed to minors;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">use<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the image of minors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 42. Advertising of securities and services related to raising public funds<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising of securities and services related to attracting funds from the public (banking, insurance and other services, the provision of which is related to activities that require obtaining a license or permitting documents) or persons providing these services is possible only if there is an appropriate license or permitting <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">document ,<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> confirming the right to carry out this type of activity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In advertising of securities and services (except for bank deposits) related to raising funds from the public or persons providing these services, it <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is prohibited<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">provide<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> information that is not directly related to the advertised services or securities;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">guarantee<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the receipt of income and the amount of dividends on common shares;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">report<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> information on the amount of expected income and future profits (income);<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">advertise<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> securities without registering the issue, as well as when the issue of securities is suspended or declared invalid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising of securities and services (except for bank deposits) related to raising funds from the public or persons providing these services must contain a warning that the use of these services may lead to a loss of capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 43. Advertising of financial services<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising of financial services or information about them in the form of advertising:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">must<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> be provided in a manner that does not abuse the trust of the advertising user and\/or does not intend to take advantage of the advertising user&#8217;s lack of experience and knowledge;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">should<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> not contain information that is not directly related to the advertised services;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">must<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> disclose the essential terms of contracts for the provision of these financial services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 44. Information on the use of a phonogram when advertising a theatrical and concert event<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">When using a phonogram in a theatrical and concert event, advertising for this event must contain information about this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 45. Advertising of traditional medicine products<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising of traditional medicine products should not:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">contain<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> references to specific cases of cure for diseases, improvement of human health as a result of the use of traditional medicine;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">create<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the impression that it is unnecessary to see a doctor;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">present<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> traditional medicine products as medicines, dietary supplements and dietary supplements;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">help<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> create an impression in a healthy person about the need to use traditional medicine products;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">contact<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> minors;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">create an idea of \u200b\u200bthe benefits of traditional medicine products by referring to the fact of conducting research required for state registration of traditional medicine products;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">contain<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> statements about advertising users having health problems and (or) diseases;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">guarantee<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the positive effect of traditional medicine products, their safety, effectiveness and absence of side effects;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">contain<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> statements that the safety and (or) effectiveness of traditional medicine products are guaranteed by their natural origin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising of traditional medicine products in each case <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">must be accompanied<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> by a warning about the presence of contraindications to their use and use, the need to read the instructions for use or obtain specialist advice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is prohibited<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> to carry out incentive campaigns for advertising traditional medicine products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 46. Advertising of lotteries, gambling and other risk-based games<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising of gambling and other risk-based games, including those organized using telecommunications networks, as well as the World Wide Web, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is not allowed<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Advertising of lotteries in each case <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">must be accompanied<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> by a warning about the prohibition of minors from participating in lotteries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">CHAPTER 8. FINAL PROVISIONS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 47. Financial sanctions for violation of advertising legislation<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For violation of advertising legislation, financial sanctions <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">are applied<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> in the form of monetary penalties (fines) in the following amounts:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">distribution of advertising about products, the production, sale or advertising of which is prohibited or limited by law &#8211; entails a fine in the amount of one hundred basic calculation units;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">inappropriate<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> advertising, refusal to counter-advertise &#8211; entail a fine in the amount of seventy basic calculation units;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">violation of the requirements for advertising of energy drinks, alcoholic beverages, tobacco products and devices for the use of tobacco and nicotine, pyrotechnics, weapons and ammunition for them, military products, as well as violation of the procedure for placing external advertising and information &#8211; entails a fine of fifty basic calculated values;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Violation of requirements for advertising for minors, medicines, biologically active and food additives, as well as baby food products &#8211; entails a fine <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">in the amount of thirty basic calculation<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> units.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">If subjects of advertising activities &#8211; legal entities &#8211; admit guilt in identified offenses in the field of advertising legislation, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">the application of financial sanctions is carried out by an authorized government body<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">, and if there is a dispute, the issue of applying financial sanctions is resolved in court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The application of financial sanctions does not relieve subjects of advertising activities\u2014legal entities\u2014from the obligation to fulfill a decision or order of an authorized government body or to perform other actions provided for by advertising legislation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 48. Dispute resolution<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Disputes arising in the field of advertising circulation are resolved in the manner prescribed by law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 49. Liability for violation of advertising legislation<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Persons guilty of violating advertising laws are held accountable in accordance with the established procedure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The advertiser is responsible for violating advertising legislation in terms of the content of information provided for the production of advertising, unless it <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">is proven<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> that this violation occurred through the fault of the advertising producer or advertising distributor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The advertising producer is responsible for violating advertising legislation regarding the production of advertising.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The advertising distributor is responsible for violating advertising legislation in terms of time, place and means of advertising distribution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 50. Recognition as invalid of certain legislative acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Declare invalid:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">1) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated December 25, 1998 No. 723-I \u201cOn Advertising\u201d (Gazette of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Oliy<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Majlis<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 1999, No. 1, Art. 14);<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">2) Resolution of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Oliy<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Majlis<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated December 25, 1998 No. 724-I \u201cOn the implementation of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan \u201cOn Advertising\u201d (Gazette of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Oliy<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Majlis<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 1999, No. 1, Art. 15);<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">3) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated August 30, 2002 No. 404-II \u201cOn introducing amendments and additions to the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan \u201cOn Advertising\u201d (Gazette of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Oliy<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Majlis<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2002, No. 9, Art. 164);<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">4) section XXV of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated April 25, 2003 No. 482-II \u201cOn introducing amendments and additions to some legislative acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan\u201d (Gazette of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Oliy<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Majlis<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2003, No. 5, Art. 67);<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">5) Article 5 of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated December 19, 2005 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">No<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">. ZRU-14 \u201cOn amendments to certain legislative acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan in connection with the reorganization of certain government bodies\u201d (Bulletin of the Chambers of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Oliy<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Majlis<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2005, No. 12, Art. 413);<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">6) Article 5 of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated April 4, 2006 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">No<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">. ZRU-28 \u201cOn introducing amendments and additions to some legislative acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan in connection with the reduction of types and simplification of permitting procedures for carrying out business activities\u201d (Gazette of the Chambers of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Oliy<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Majlis<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2006, No. 4, Art. 154);<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">7) Article 23 of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated October 10, 2006 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">No<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">. ZRU-59 \u201cOn introducing amendments and additions to some legislative acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan in connection with improving the legal protection system and liberalizing the financial responsibility of business entities\u201d (Gazette of the Chambers of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Oliy<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Majlis<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2006, No. 10, Art. 536);<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">8) Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated April 10, 2008 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">No<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">. ZRU-150 \u201cOn amendments to Article 16 of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan \u201cOn Advertising\u201d (Gazette of the Chambers of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Oliy<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Majlis<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2008, No. 4, Art. 186);<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">9) Article 1 of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated September 17, 2010 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">No<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">. ZRU-259 \u201cOn amendments and additions to the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan \u201cOn Advertising\u201d and Article 178 1 of the Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Administrative Responsibility\u201d (Gazette of the Chambers of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Oliy<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Majlis<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of the Republic of Uzbekistan, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">2010 .<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">, No. 9, Art. 339);<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">10) Article 3 of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated October 6, 2010 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">No<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">. ZRU-264 \u201cOn amendments to some legislative acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan in connection with the reorganization of the state antimonopoly body\u201d (Bulletin of the Chambers of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Oliy<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Majlis<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2010, No. 10, Art. . 380);<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">11) Article 28 of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated April 30, 2013 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">No<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">. ZRU-352 \u201cOn introducing amendments and additions to some legislative acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan\u201d (Gazette of the Chambers of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Oliy<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Majlis<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2013, No. 4, Art. 98);<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">12) Article 23 of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated October 7, 2013 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">No<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">. ZRU-355 \u201cOn introducing amendments and additions, as well as recognizing as invalid some legislative acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan\u201d (Bulletin of the Chambers of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Oliy<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Majlis<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2013, No. 10, Art. .263);<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">13) Article 19 of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated January 20, 2014 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">No<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">. ZRU-365 \u201cOn introducing amendments and additions to some legislative acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan\u201d (Gazette of the Chambers of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Oliy<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Majlis<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2014, No. 1, Art. 2);<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">14) Article 21 of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated January 3, 2018 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">No<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">ZRU-456 \u201cOn introducing amendments and additions to some legislative acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan in connection with improving the activities of certain government bodies, as well as taking additional measures to ensure guarantees for the protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens &#8220;(Gazette of the chambers of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Oliy<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Majlis<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2018, No. 1, Art.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> 1);<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">15) Article 34 of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated April 18, 2018 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">No<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">. ZRU-476 \u201cOn introducing amendments and additions to some legislative acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan\u201d (Gazette of the Chambers of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Oliy<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Majlis<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2018, No. 4, Art. 224);<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">16) Article 6 of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated January 9, 2019 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">No<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">. ZRU-514 \u201cOn introducing amendments and additions to some legislative acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan aimed at improving the mechanisms for ensuring public order\u201d (Gazette of the Chambers of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Oliy<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Majlis<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2019, No. 1, art. 3);<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">17) Article 17 of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated May 23, 2019 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">No<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">. ZRU-542 \u201cOn introducing amendments and additions to some legislative acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan related to ensuring the protection of the rights of participants in criminal proceedings\u201d (Gazette of the Chambers of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Oliy<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Majlis<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2019, No. 5, Art. 267);<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">18) Article 100 of the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated April 21, 2021 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">No<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">. ZRU-683 \u201cOn amendments to certain legislative acts of the Republic of Uzbekistan\u201d (Gazette of the Chambers of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Oliy<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Majlis<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 2021, Appendix to No. 4).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 51. Ensuring execution, communication, clarification of the essence and meaning of this Law<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Antimonopoly Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan shall ensure the implementation, communication to executors and explanation among the population of the essence and significance of this Law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 52. Bringing legislation into compliance with this Law<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">To the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">bring<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> government decisions into compliance with this Law;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">ensure<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> the review and<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> repeal by government bodies of their regulations that contradict this Law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"color: #2f5496; font-size: 12pt;\">Article 53. Entry into force of this Law<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This Law comes into force after three months from the date of its official publication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 8pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-indent: 28.35pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Sh. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">MIRZIYOEV<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN JUNE 7, 2022 NO. ZRU-776 . 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