Investment regulation
Investments are tangible and intangible assets and rights to them, including intellectual property rights, as well as reinvestments made by investors at their own risk in social, entrepreneurial, scientific, and other activities with the aim of making a profit. Investments may include:
- Funds, including cash (including foreign currency), targeted bank deposits, shares, stakes, stocks, bonds, bills of exchange, and other securities.- Movable and immovable property (buildings, structures, equipment, machinery, and other material assets).
- Intellectual property rights, including patented or unpatented (know-how) technical, technological, commercial, and other knowledge documented as technical documentation, skills, and production experience necessary for organizing various types of production, as well as other assets not prohibited by the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Investors are the subjects of investment activity who invest their own and/or borrowed funds or other attracted investment resources in investment activities with the aim of making a profit.
Forms of investment include:
- Establishing legal entities or participating in their charter funds (capital), including through the acquisition of property and shares (stakes).
- Acquiring securities, including debt obligations issued by residents of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
- Acquiring concessions, including concessions for exploration, development, extraction, or use of natural resources, as well as participation in a production-sharing agreement.
- Acquiring ownership rights, including ownership rights to intellectual property objects, copyrights, patents, trademarks, utility models, industrial designs, trade names, goodwill, and business reputation.
- Acquiring rights to land plots, ownership and use rights to other natural resources.
Investors may carry out investments in other forms that do not contradict the legislation.
Investment activity can be carried out through a combination of different forms of investment.
Changing the forms in which investments are initially or subsequently made does not change their classification as investments.
The Ministry of Investment, Industry, and Trade of the Republic of Uzbekistan is the competent state authority in the field of state regulation of investments and investment activities.
Below, you can find detailed information about the documents regulating the sphere.