PROPOSALS FOR ENSURING OPENNESS IN THE ACTIVITIES OF THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COUNCIL DURING 2026

1. Organize training seminars aimed at the full and high-quality fulfillment of the requirements of the openness assessment criteria for employees responsible for ensuring openness in the activities of the Supreme Judicial Council, generating open data, and publishing it within the established deadlines.

2. Conduct social surveys and prepare analytical conclusions based on their results in order to study the level of public awareness of the Council's activities, strengthen the positive image of the Council, and systematically analyze citizens' attitudes toward the processes of forming the judicial corps.

3. Prepare dedicated outreach and informational video materials on the main areas of the Council's activities, such as the selection of candidates for judicial positions, the recommendation of judges for appointment, the assessment of their professional preparedness and qualifications, the inviolability of judges, and compliance with the rules of ethics, and regularly post them on the Council's official website and its official pages on social networks.

4. Prepare a series of informational and analytical materials on the work being carried out in the areas of forming the judicial corps, selecting and training candidates for judicial positions, improving the professional qualifications of judges, and ensuring their independence and inviolability, and provide broad coverage of them in the mass media.

5. Strengthen coverage of the activities of the Supreme Judicial Council in foreign mass media and the international information space, and prepare and regularly publish printed, photo, audio, and video materials on the reforms being implemented to ensure the independence of the judiciary and improve the system of selecting and appointing judges.

6. Post draft normative legal acts related to the activities of the Supreme Judicial Council, approved documents, Council decisions, and other open information on the official website in the established manner, and regularly update the database of photo, audio, and video materials related to the Council's activities.

7. Publish all open information related to the activities of the Supreme Judicial Council within the deadlines established by legislative acts, ensure its relevance and reliability, and update it regularly. Exceptions include state secrets, information intended for official use, personal data, and other information whose disclosure is restricted in accordance with the legislation.

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PROPOSALS FOR ENSURING OPENNESS IN THE ACTIVITIES OF THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COUNCIL DURING 2025

1. Conduct regular anonymous surveys among the Council's employees by the Council's structural unit responsible for internal anti-corruption control, in order to study the socio-economic conditions of employees and to identify in a timely manner the areas of activity, processes, and positions where corruption risks may be high. Develop additional preventive measures based on the analysis of the collected data, and publish a consolidated report on the results of the work carried out on the Council's official website.

2. Regularly publish, in the established manner, open information on announced vacancies for judicial positions, the requirements for candidates, the procedure for submitting documents, the stages of the selection process and their results, on the Council's official website and its official pages on social networks.

3. Regularly organize online dialogues, question-and-answer sessions, and live broadcasts with the participation of the leadership and responsible officials on the Council's official pages on social networks in order to further increase the level of public awareness of the activities of the Supreme Judicial Council.

4. Post infographic materials at least once a month on the Council's official website and its pages on social networks about the work being carried out and the results achieved in developing the judicial and legal sphere, strengthening the independence of the judiciary, and improving the system of selecting and training candidates for judicial positions.

5. Organize a briefing for the general public on the work being carried out and the results achieved in introducing international standards, advanced foreign experience, and criteria for assessing the independence of the judiciary into the activities of the Supreme Judicial Council.

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PROPOSALS FOR ENSURING OPENNESS IN THE ACTIVITIES OF THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COUNCIL DURING 2024

1. Post on the Council's official website, at the end of each quarter, information on the tasks for which the Supreme Judicial Council has been designated as responsible in state programs, decrees, resolutions, and other documents concerning the development of the judicial and legal sphere, ensuring the independence of the judiciary, forming the judicial corps, and selecting and training candidates for judicial positions, as well as the status of their implementation.

SAMPLE

On the status of implementation of the tasks for which the Supreme Judicial Council has been designated as responsible in the State Program

INFORMATION No. Name of measures Implementation mechanism Deadline Responsible executors Implementation status (as of today)

1	2	3	4	5	6

Note: information on the tasks for which the Supreme Judicial Council has been designated as responsible in state programs and other program documents, as well as on their implementation, shall be posted on the Council's official website by the 15th day of the month following the end of each quarter.

2. Based on the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. PF-5729 of May 27, 2019 "On Measures to Further Improve the System of Combating Corruption in the Republic of Uzbekistan", identify and assess the areas of activity, functions, and positions in the Council's activities that may be more exposed to corruption risks, and implement appropriate measures to minimize them.

In this regard, it is necessary to regularly train the Council's employees in combating corruption, preventing conflicts of interest, and complying with the rules of ethics, to systematically organize events aimed at improving their knowledge and skills in this area, and to conduct preventive activities on a regular basis.

3. In order to broadly inform the public about the measures aimed at ensuring openness in the Supreme Judicial Council, organize a briefing at the Agency of Information and Mass Communications at least once a quarter on the work carried out by the Council and the results achieved within the framework of the implementation of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. PF-154 of June 14, 2022 "On Measures to Introduce a System for Increasing and Assessing the Level of Openness of the Activities of State Bodies and Organizations".

At the briefings, it is recommended to provide open information on the selection of candidates for judicial positions, the recommendation of judges for appointment, the assessment of judges' professional performance, the ensuring of their independence and inviolability, compliance with the rules of judicial ethics, and the results of handling appeals from individuals and legal entities.

4. Conduct regular anonymous surveys among the Council's employees in order to improve the management and internal control system of the Supreme Judicial Council, improve the socio-economic conditions of employees, and identify in a timely manner the areas of activity, processes, and positions where corruption risks may be high, and develop additional measures based on the analysis of the collected data.

Publish consolidated analytical information on the results of the anonymous surveys on the Council's official website, excluding personal data and information whose disclosure is restricted in accordance with the legislation.