DUSHANBE, May 11, Asia-Plus - The lower house of the Tajik parliament has endorsed a bill requiring amendments to the country’s law on licensing certain types of activities.  The bill has been approved in order to bring licensing into compliance with the RT Law “On Inspection of Activities of Economic Entities in Tajikistan.”

A regular sitting of the third session of the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) of the third convocation presided over by its chairman Saydullo Khairulloyev was held on May 11. 

Latofat Sharipova, member of the Majlisi Namoyandagon Committee on Energy, Industry, and Construction, presenting the bill noted that under the amended law on licensing certain types of activities, license will be granted for not less than five years (the previous edition of the law provided for granting license for the period of up to five years).  According to her, amendments were made to the law in order to bring it into compliance with licensing with the RT Law “On Inspection of Activities of Economic Entities in Tajikistan.” 

The session also considered and endorsed a bill requiring an amnesty for physical and juridical entities following their legalization of property as well as amendments to the laws on state regulation of production and circulation of ethyl alcohol and alcohol drinks, seed-growing and environmental protection.