DUSHANBE, December 31, 2012, Asia-Plus — President Emomali Rahmon has signed a number of laws adopted by the Majlisi Namoyandgon (Tajikistan’ lower chamber of parliament and seconded by the Majlisi Milli (Tajikistan’s upper chamber of parliament) this year, the president’s official website said.
The head of state, in particular, signed the laws on protection of atmospheric air, anticorruption examination of regulatory acts and draft regulatory acts, and private-public partnership, as well as the town planning code of Tajikistan.
Rahmon also signed a number of laws requiring changes and addenda to the country’s law on public service, electronic document, licensing system as well as on insurance and state pensions.
The law on anticorruption examination of regulatory acts and draft regulatory acts reportedly establishes the legal and organizational basis of anti-corruption examination of regulatory legal acts and drafts of regulatory legal acts for the purpose of identifying corruptiongenic factors in them subsequently eliminating them.
As far as the public–private partnership (PPP) is concerned, it describes a government service or private business venture which is funded and operated through a partnership of government and one or more private sector companies. PPP involves a contract between a public sector authority and a private party, in which the private party provides a public service or project and assumes substantial financial, technical and operational risk in the project. In some types of PPP, the cost of using the service is borne exclusively by the users of the service and not by the taxpayer. In other types (notably the private finance initiative), capital investment is made by the private sector on the weakness of a contract with government to provide agreed services and the cost of providing the service is borne wholly or in part by the government. Government contributions to a PPP may also be in kind (notably the transfer of existing assets). In projects that are aimed at creating public goods like in the infrastructure sector, the government may provide a capital subsidy in the form of a one-time grant, so as to make it more attractive to the private investors. In some other cases, the government may support the project by providing revenue subsidies, including tax breaks or by removing guaranteed annual revenues for a fixed time period.
