Tajikistan’ lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of parliament (Majlisi Oli) intends to make amendment to country’s law on moratorium on inspection of industrial production facilities.
The Majlisi Namoyandagon intends to endorse a bill requiring amendments to the law on moratorium on inspection of industrial production facilities on February 7, an official source at the Majlisi Namoyandagon told Asia-Plus in an interview.
Under the bill, the Prosecutor-General’s Office, the Accounts Chamber, the National Bank of Tajikistan, the Tax Committee, the Customs Service and the anticorruption agency will not have the right inspect the industrial production facilities during two years until January 1, 2021, according to the source.
Recall, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon on January 15 signed a decree introducing a two-year moratorium on inspection of industrial production facilities, according to the Tajik president’s official website.
The decree is reportedly aimed at supporting industrial production facilities as well as promoting creation of new jobs and strengthening of industrial and export capacities of the country.
The moratorium on inspection of industrial production facilities will be in effect until January 1, 2021.
The president proposed to launch a two-year-moratorium on inspection of industrial production facilities on December 6, 2018 while addressing a joint session of both chambers of parliament.
During the address, the head of state spoke about his professed concern for the frequency of raids on private enterprises, saying it was cramping the development of the business community.
He proposed to launch a two-year-moratorium on inspection of industrial production facilities for the period of 2019-2020.
Meanwhile, the Majlisi Namoyandagon on February 7, 2018 supported president’s initiative on introducing a two-year moratorium on inspection of privately-owned industrial production facilities.
President Rahmon signed a decree aimed at creating a favorable climate for the development of productive entrepreneurship on January 16, 2018.
Under the moratorium decree proposed by the president to the parliament, tax officials, prosecutors, the auditing chamber and anticorruption officials and the National Bank are still allowed to run checks. Checks could only go ahead when there was a suspicion that consumer rights were somehow being violated. The moratorium extends only to production facilities, not other types of enterprises.
