Changes To Legislation Passed By Senate

During its 9th regular session on March 28, the Senate of the Oliy Majlis (an upper house of the Uzbek Parliament) approved several major changes in the Constitution and some legislative acts. As the most of the changes were proposed by the country's President Shavkat Mirziyoev, it is highly unlikely that any of these changes will be blocked at the signing stage. The most notable novelties include:

Courts and the judiciary. The changes introduced in the Constitution presume the merger of the Supreme Court and the Higher Economic Courts into a single supreme judicial body – the Supreme Court with relevant judicial boards supervising and adjudicating civil, criminal, commercial, and administrative cases.