USAID Commercial Law Project

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USAID Commercial Law Project

• Pursuing
• Economic Growth
• Through Open Government

Financed by
United Stated Agency for International Development
Managed by ARD/Checchi Director Bill Kennedy
4 March 2006
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• Todays Presentation
• Two Aspects of Open Government Tajikistan is Now
  Pursuing
• Administrative Procedures Law
• Legal Database Adlia

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• ADMINISTRATIVE LAW The New Frontier for
  Executive Agencies
• Administrative Procedures Law
• Assure effective public administration
• Preserve rights and interests of citizens
• Scope
• Rulemaking
• Adjudication
• Implementation and enforcement
• Not government contracts or freedom of
  information

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• Prospects for Administrative Law Reform in
  Tajikistan
• Utterly new procedural law unknown to legal
  landscape of the country
• Working group only expertise within the country
• Pending in parliamentpossibilities are good for
  passage
• Administrative Commission as new institution
• Looming implementation challenges

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• Public Access to Laws and Regulations
• ADLIA Legal Database
• Product of six years work
• Updated weekly
• Available to all on CD ROM without charge
• Contains more than 4,750 laws, regulations, and
  decrees
• Sustainability To be transferred to Ministry of
  Justice
• Currently being upgraded
• Multiple languages
• Internet capability
• World Bank considering future maintenance
  assistance