The new legislative changes and the major updates will take effect in August. The full list of changes have been compiled below.
Part of Auto Loan Interest to Be Reimbursed for Trade-Ins
Under the trade-in program, individuals and legal entities who turn in an old vehicle will have part of the interest on auto loans taken out to purchase a new car reimbursed.
The measure is designed to make car ownership more convenient for the public. However, there is still no information on when the program will actually launch, and the government has not yet officially announced when the system will begin operating.
Banks to Raise Limit on Foreign Currency Purchases Without ID
In early May, a joint resolution from the Central Bank's management board and the Prosecutor General's Office's Department for Combating Economic Crimes was registered with the Ministry of Justice.
Under the resulting changes to internal control rules, citizens will be able to purchase up to $500 in cash foreign currency from banks without presenting a passport, ID card, or other identifying document.
The current limit is $100. The new rule takes effect August 9.
Uzbekistan's First Toll Road to Open
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced that the country's first toll road, connecting Urgench and Khiva, will open to traffic next month. According to the president, the project will become key infrastructure not only for local residents but also for domestic and foreign tourists.
According to the Road Committee, construction of the 35-kilometer road is 80 percent complete. The project includes 15 bridges, one tunnel, five underpasses, and 101 water-crossing structures.
Ferrous Scrap Metal Trade to Be Monitored Through E-Lom System
At a July 13 meeting on developing the ferrous metallurgy industry chaired by Shavkat Mirziyoyev, it was noted that the Bekabad Metallurgical Plant produces 40 percent of its rolled metal from secondary raw materials and 60 percent from imports. While 700,000 tons of ferrous scrap metal are delivered to the plant nationwide each year, another 500,000 tons remain in the shadow market.
As a result, all processes related to ferrous metal trade will be monitored in real time through an electronic platform. A dedicated project office will be established within the government to ensure fair competition and price stability in the ferrous metallurgy industry and to set up effective oversight mechanisms.
This office will conduct daily analysis of the metal products market, shape supply and demand for raw materials and finished goods, and maintain digital passports reflecting product quality, origin, and physical and chemical composition.
Officials have been instructed to get the project office running within a month and to launch the E-Lom electronic platform by August 1 to bring ferrous metal trade under control.
Vehicle Release from Impound Lots to Require QR Code
Starting August 1, permission to remove a vehicle from an impound lot will be issued exclusively in electronic form via QR code through the impound lot information system.
The Interior Ministry, together with the State Tax Committee and the Ministry of Digital Technologies, will integrate this system with tax authority databases within two months.
As a result, information about impounded vehicles — make, license plate, time in and out of the lot, fees collected, and more — will be automatically generated within the tax system. The system will also include details of legal entities providing storage services for vehicles seized for violations.
Starting August 6, banks that violate customer service rules related to ATM use will face financial penalties, under a new regulation prepared by the Central Bank.
The regulator is requiring banks to improve the quality of payment infrastructure and to treat cash withdrawal malfunctions not as mere technical glitches but as potential violations of consumer rights.
In 2025, 291,000 ATM-related problems were recorded, nearly 15 percent of which were linked to the conduct of banks and payment system operators.
Starting August 7, a law on mandatory identification and registration of animals takes effect in Uzbekistan. Animals must be identified and registered within the following timeframes:
- Cattle, sheep, goats, and camels — within 14 days of birth
- Horses — within four months of birth
- Pigs — within one month of birth
- Dogs and cats — within three months of birth
Information about animals and their owners will be stored in a unified electronic database.
However, the requirement for owners to register their animals — and the ban on keeping unregistered ones — will only take effect starting January 1, 2028.
From August 1, 2026 through August 1, 2030, new mechanisms for financially supporting fish farms will be introduced.
Specifically, part of the interest expenses on loans taken out to purchase and install solar panels will be reimbursed; 25 percent of installation costs for solar panels up to 50 kW will be subsidized; and 50 percent of the cost of purchasing aerators equipped with alternative energy sources will be covered.
In addition, part of the costs will be covered for importing breeding broodstock, introducing closed water recirculation system technology, and purchasing equipment for producing compound feed for intensive fish farming.
Fifty percent of salary costs for foreign ichthyologists and fish disease specialists will also be compensated.
Through August 31, 2030, fishery entrepreneurs will receive partial compensation on loan interest, with guarantees covering up to 50 percent of loans (up to the equivalent of 10 billion soums).
In addition, commercial banks will issue loans to fishery enterprises using funds from international financial institutions, with terms of up to 24 months, including a grace period of up to nine months, at an annual rate of 18 percent.
The preferential lending arrangements currently in place for livestock projects will also be extended to fishery projects, including breeding fish farming.
Starting August 1, industrial parks that have adopted water-saving technologies will pay a symbolic tax rate of just 1 soum for water drawn from drilled wells. This benefit will remain in effect for five years, through August 1, 2031.
By government resolution, new restrictions aimed at improving air quality have been introduced in the city of Tashkent and in the Yuqori Chirchiq, Qibray, Yangiyul, Zangiota, and Tashkent districts of Tashkent region.
Starting August 1, natural gas supply to existing greenhouses will be completely halted, and gas supply contracts will be terminated. Water fees for greenhouses will be charged at five times the maximum tariff set for industrial enterprises.
Compensation payments for environmental pollution caused by burning coal, tires, fuel oil, bitumen, rubber, film, and similar materials will be increased twentyfold. In such cases, environmental review findings will be reconsidered.
Greenhouse operations that fail to comply with environmental requirements will be barred from certain state subsidies, benefits, and financial support measures. They will also be denied a positive environmental review, or any previously issued approval will be suspended.
An exception will be made for educational and research institutions, which will be permitted to use existing greenhouses for scientific purposes — such as plant breeding, seed and seedling propagation, and adapting foreign varieties to the local climate — provided they comply with environmental requirements.
By August 1, Uzenergoinspection, together with relevant agencies, is set to submit proposals to the government for creating an information system to collect and process real-time data from dispensers at fuel and gas filling stations.
Also by August, the electronic trading system of the Republican Commodity Exchange will be integrated with the licensing information system. As a result, liquefied gas on designated exchange trading sections will only be available for purchase by business entities holding a valid license to sell it.
Enterprises that use liquefied gas for technological processes or their own needs, and that have the necessary infrastructure to receive, store, and distribute it, will also be entitled to purchase gas on separate trading sections based on a list provided by the inspectorate.
Starting August 1, community phytosanitary inspectors will begin operating in certain districts to help develop fruit and vegetable exports.
They will assist quarantine inspectors in issuing internal phytosanitary certificates. The new system is aimed at improving product quality, ensuring compliance with safety requirements, and boosting export appeal.
Also from August, a new procedure will be introduced for verifying that exported fruits and vegetables meet requirements on pesticide and nitrate residues. One of two methods may be used:
- A positive assessment based on research conducted by an accredited laboratory, taking into account the size of the cultivated area and yield volume
- A calculation based on data regularly entered into a "field logbook" through the Agroyordam service, tracking pesticide use throughout the growing season
Starting August 1, a customer-focus index for tax authorities will be introduced.
To this end, the State Tax Committee must develop and approve a methodology for calculating the index. Results will be published regularly on the official website.
The index will allow taxpayers to assess the convenience of tax services, the quality of service provided, the time spent fulfilling tax obligations, and the overall level of cooperation with tax authorities.
A system will be introduced to reward citizens who submit photo or video evidence of violations at hazardous production facilities and involving technical equipment. Reports will be sent to the Committee for Industrial, Radiation, and Nuclear Safety.
Submitted materials must clearly show the nature of the violation, along with the location, date, and time it occurred. A responsible officer at the committee's regional office will review submissions through the information system and visit the site in person within three working days.
Following this, administrative proceedings will be opened in accordance with the law, evidence will be formalized, and an appropriate decision issued. Individuals who submit photo or video evidence of a violation will receive a cash reward equal to 20 percent of the portion of the resulting fine transferred to the committee.
Under a Supreme Court plenum resolution, specialized judges will operate within the existing staff of civil courts. They will work at the Supreme Court, the Court of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, regional courts, the Tashkent city court, and select inter-district and city courts.
Labor disputes filed after August 1 will be distributed among these specialized judges, while cases already accepted before that date will continue to be handled under the previous procedure.
At a meeting on curbing inflation, the president discussed rising meat prices and announced that the subsidy covering the cost of transporting meat by air would be extended through the end of the year.
The subsidy, previously set to expire on August 1, covers 50 percent of air freight costs for meat imports (up to $0.8 per kilogram) and 10 percent of the cost of importing breeding cattle (up to 4 million soums per head).
An additional $50 million will be allocated to develop livestock farming. These funds will finance preferential loans at a 10 percent rate over 10 years for livestock complexes and breeding projects. By the end of the year, the country plans to import 100,000 head of cattle and 150,000 sheep and goats from abroad.
Newly established farms led by young people will receive two years of free service from bookkeeping and reporting centers operating under district farmers' councils.
This benefit applies to all farmers who have paid membership dues, regardless of whether they grow cotton, grain, or other crops.
Starting August 1, inspections of entrepreneurs and interactions with them that don't qualify as formal oversight measures will be logged in the Unified State Control information system. A "Business Protection" QR code will be introduced for this purpose.
From that date, government officials who inspect or interact with entrepreneurs will be required to use the system's mobile app. Before beginning an inspection, they must scan the entrepreneur's QR code and register the inspection in the system.
In addition, special certificates authorizing inspections will only be issued electronically, and paper inspection logbooks will be abolished. If information about an inspection or interaction is not entered into the system, the entrepreneur has the right to deny the official entry to their premises and refuse to engage with them.
Under a presidential decree issued June 29, starting August 1, members of parliament will have expanded authority to designate additional winning projects within the Citizen's Budget Initiative.
Under the new procedure, each lawmaker will be able to select one or more projects on the Open Budget information portal, within their allocated funds, and designate them as additional winners.
If a lawmaker's term ends early, additional winning projects in their electoral district will be determined by other lawmakers, based on a decision of the commission overseeing parliamentary control of the Citizen's Budget Initiative process.
A number of state archive functions will be fully digitized. This includes state registration of National Archive Fund documents, compiling and approving inventories, and processing document intake and access — all of which will move to electronic form.
Digitization will also cover the process by which organizations undergoing reorganization coordinate the transfer of archival documents to their legal successor with state archives, as well as the compilation of a unified list of state bodies and organizations required to submit documents to state archives.
Starting August 1, loans will be made available to entrepreneurs for launching new poultry production capacity and financing "ready-made business" projects.
Funds will be issued through Mikrokreditbank at an annual rate of 10 percent, with a four-year grace period, for terms of up to 10 years.
The Higher Tax School under the State Tax Committee will introduce a system requiring tax authority employees to undergo professional development training at least once every three years.
Turkey's SunExpress airline will launch regular flights on the Izmir–Tashkent–Izmir route starting August 1. Flights will operate four times a week using Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
SunExpress will become the third Turkish airline to launch regular service to Uzbekistan and is also reportedly planning future flights to airports in the Fergana Valley.
Etihad Airways will launch regular flights on the Abu Dhabi–Tashkent route starting August 10. Flights will operate daily using Airbus A320 aircraft.
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