The role and importance of information technologies in the process of norm-making

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This scientific research paper examines the use of information technologies in the process of norm creation, their role, and importance in the normative legal activity. Moreover, this article focuses on studying the legal foundations for implementing information technologies in the norm-making process through national legislation. Additionally, the article provides a theoretical and legal analysis of the functioning of the information systems currently used in norm creation and their legal bases. Keywords: Justice, norm, digitalization, information, legislation, normative-legal act, norm-making, technology, portal, electronic system, digital signature. legislative system and in resolving their issues easily Introduction: One of the priority tasks of justice bodies and conveniently. It would be beneficial to familiarize is the quality organization of the normative legal act ourselves with the activities of these systems. drafting process, the establishment of consistent and uniform application of the law, ensuring the The Portal for the Discussion of Draft Normative Legal effectiveness of the state administration system, and Acts, “Regulation.gov.uz”. In our country, the raising the legal culture of the population. discussion of legislative document drafts is carried out through the “Regulation.gov.uz” portal. The Portal for As a result of the digitization of the Ministry of Justice, the Discussion of Draft Normative Legal Acts new electronic systems have been introduced for the (regulation.gov.uz) introduces modern digital development, review, and approval of normative legal technologies into the process of developing, discussing, documents. These systems include and adopting normative legal documents, ensuring “Regulation.gov.uz”, “Project.gov.uz”, “E-qaror” and transparency and speed. At the same time, documents “Lex.uz”. are developed in paperless electronic form. According In discussing the modern trends in the development of to the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan on “Normative digitization in the justice sector, Deputy Minister of Legal Acts” draft normative legal documents must be Justice Kh. Meliyev stated that digitization now covers placed on the Portal for Public Discussion in accordance all areas of the Ministry’s activities. He pointed out that with the procedure established by law. today, nearly 50 major information systems are Looking at the history of the creation of this system, the functioning within the Ministry, including the National Unified State Interactive Services Portal Database of Legislative Acts of the Republic of (www.my.gov.uz) was launched on July 1, 2013, to Uzbekistan (Lex.uz), the Unified Electronic System for provide the public with access to interactive state Drafting and Coordinating Normative Legal Documents services. On March 17, 2015, the Open Data Portal of (Project.gov.uz), the Portal for the Discussion of Draft the Republic of Uzbekistan (data.gov.uz) was put into Normative Legal Acts (Regulation.gov.uz), “Notarius” operation. As a logical continuation of these efforts, the Information System, the Non-Governmental Non-Profit system for evaluating the impact of legislative Organizations Portal (E-ngo.uz), and other large documents was launched as a separate portal. This information systems . system was launched on January 1, 2015, initially as a These systems play an important role today in helping section of the Unified State Interactive Services Portal the population become familiar with the national and made available to the public. International Journal of Law And Criminology 42 https://theusajournals.com/index.php/ijlc International Journal of Law And Criminology (ISSN: 2771-2214) The Portal for the Discussion of Normative Legal Acts of to assess potential corruption factors. the Republic of Uzbekistan was developed based on the According to statistical data, as of February 18, 2025, a Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of total of 280 draft normative legal acts have been Uzbekistan Resolution No. 328, dated December 2, submitted for discussion via the “Regulation.gov.uz” 2014, and is the first version of the system for assessing system. Of these, 252 drafts have completed the the impact of legislative acts. discussion process, while 28 drafts are still under The launch of this portal includes a number of priority review. goals and tasks. Specifically, it aims to identify the The Unified Electronic System for the Development and potential (or actual) positive and negative Coordination of Normative Legal Acts (Project.gov.uz) consequences that may arise when adopting a is used for the development and coordination of normative legal act by analyzing the issue, its regulatory normative legal acts. This process is carried out objectives, and existing solutions. It also seeks to electronically through a specialized information system identify provisions in the draft or adopted normative for the coordination of normative legal acts. According legal