Normative - legal framework of activity

The State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan has been established by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On reorganization of the Ministry of Macroeconomics and statistics of the Republic of Uzbekistan" # UP -3183 dated December 24, 2002 and the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On organization of the activity of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan"#8 dated January 8, 2003. 

Regulations and organizational structure of the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan have been approved by the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On organization of the activity of the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Statistics"#8 dated January 8, 2003

Main functions and rights

According to the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan "on State Statistics " dated December 12, 2002 and the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan " On reorganization of the Ministry of Macroeconomics and statistics of the Republic of Uzbekistan " dated December 24, 2002, the main tasks of the Committee are as follows:

• development and realization of uniform policy in the field of statistics, ensuring an effective system of statistics organization in conformity with the modern international requirements and standards;
• development and introduction of scientifically grounded and based on basic principles of a market economy, a uniform statistical methodology and system of parameters that ensure the composition of the national accounts and are in conformity with the international statistical standards;
• insurance of efficiency, reliability and objectivity of statistical and reported indicators, comprehensive describing the processes of economic and social life of society;
• development of a system of national accounts in conformity with appropriate international methodology of National Accounts, formation of a informational support system for composing the national accounts taking into account the international statistical standards and rules;
• preparation and fulfillment of state statistics orders; development of the state statistics work programs on the basis of a study of needs of the state bodies and administration and demand of statistical information users, and organization of an implementation of such programs;
• insuring a coordination of the activity of the ministries, agencies and organizations on realization of uniform policy in the field of statistics;
• providing a system of economical and statistical classifiers necessary for organization of statistical works, and Single State Register of enterprises and organizations;
• maintenance on a system basis of improvement of professional skills and staff retraining of statistics bodies at all levels.

Main functions:

• ensures an observance of principles of state statistics and unity of statistical methodology and its correspondence with the international standards and rules;
• determines priority directions of state statistics development, and provides scientific - methodological, organizational, technical, personnel, and financial support;
• develops and approves the statistical observation programs, ensures their effective realization, processing, accumulation, maintenance and distribution of the statistical information;
• develops and approves in prescribed order forms of the state statistical reporting and filling instructions and coordinates the forms of the departmental statistical reporting;
• forms an information system of statistical indices for comprehensive analysis of republican and regional social and economic processes;
• carries out preliminary statistical analysis of major economic and social processes and events;
• in prescribed order provides users with information on nation-wide classifiers and their changes and updates;
• ensures a further development of the Single State Register of Enterprises and Organizations as a main methodological mechanism ensuring a completeness of reporting and registration of all undertakings and compatibility of informational resources;
• develops, coordinates and presents in prescribed order the drafts of normative - legal acts concerning statistics, as well as creation and maintaining state information systems and resources. 

Main rights: 

To perform its functions the State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan is empowered to: 

• carry out a coordination of activity and functional regulation in the field of implementation of uniform statistics policy;
• approve forms of state statistical monitoring, filling and submission instructions and coordinate the forms of departmental statistical observations;
• request and receive from financial, customs authorities, tax authorities, banks, other departments and agencies, legal persons and their representations and branches, physical persons, including individual entrepreneurs state statistical reports, data of the departmental reports and other data necessary for statistics works (at any stage of development), including attached explanatory notes; and to use them for statistical purposes and necessary for performance state statistical operations;
• issue in prescribed order normative acts obligatory for general execution by state bodies, legal persons, representations and branches, individual entrepreneurs submitting statistical data;
• in prescribed order verify reliability and completeness of the statistical data in the organizations of the Republic of Uzbekistan. In case of deviations, to instruct on their elimination and make appropriate corrections in the statistical data;
• carry out a cooperation with international statistical and economic organizations; hold and participate in seminars and meetings on statistics, including international ones.