Uzbekistan adopts constitutional law defining powers of Presidential Administration

Sherzod Asadov, spokesperson for the president, said the Presidential Administration is a unified constitutional institution responsible for providing organizational, legal and analytical support for the president’s activities and constitutional powers. However, there had previously been a legal gap in regulating its relations and activities with other state bodies.

The new law establishes a legal framework for the Administration’s existing powers, including its role in organizing the implementation of presidential decrees, resolutions, orders and instructions. According to Asadov, defining the legal status of an institution supporting the president’s activities at the level of law is considered an institutional standard of presidential governance in international practice.

The constitutional law consists of four chapters and 34 articles. It formally establishes the constitutional mechanisms through which the Presidential Administration supports the president’s activities within its existing powers.

Under the law, the Presidential Administration is defined as a state body that provides organizational, legal and analytical support for the exercise of the president’s powers. It is formed by the president, operates according to the main areas determined by him, and is directly subordinate and accountable to him.

Key responsibilities of the Presidential Administration

The law sets out the Administration’s main responsibilities, including providing organizational, legal and analytical support for the exercise of the president’s constitutional powers; preparing draft presidential decrees, resolutions and orders and organizing and monitoring their implementation; and helping develop new presidential initiatives concerning the country’s socioeconomic and sociopolitical development.

The Administration will also organize direct and open dialogue with citizens and businesses and help develop solutions to issues raised by them. Its responsibilities include preparing laws for the president’s signature or return to parliament, organizing the president’s address to the Oliy Majlis, and coordinating the activities of state bodies and organizations directly subordinate and accountable to the president.

The law also defines the legal status and responsibilities of the head of the Presidential Administration, as well as procedures for appointing and dismissing its officials and management personnel. It establishes a legal basis for organizing the activities of the Security Council under the president.