This was announced at a meeting chaired by the President. announced.
Anti-competitive practices in state purchases will be prevented, ensuring the transparency of these processes. The number of offers in commodity exchanges will be increased, expanding the selection opportunities for buyers.
The President gave additional instructions to continue the work in the sector, to ensure free market principles, and prepare specialists. It was emphasized the need to reduce the state's share in the economy and gradually transfer some functions to the private sector. A task was set to continuously analyze the state of competition in commodity, financial, and digital markets, and to refine regulations by submitting proposals.
In the last three years, more than 2,000 documents contrary to competition have been identified locally. The majority of them were adopted by local governments and ministries. Therefore, it was pointed out the necessity to invigorate the regional offices of the Competition Committee and improve the qualifications of the personnel.
Additionally, it was mentioned that it is necessary to make the committee's activities more open to the public and increase media coverage. This is important from the perspective of preventing legal violations, and forming an environment of transparency and integrity.