On December 31, 2022, a new Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On Electronic Commerce” entered into legal force, regulating relations in e-commerce field. General provisions include following definitions: digital products (electronic copies of intellectual property objects), as well as execution of certain actions in the electronic information environment or the implementation of certain activities that do not have a tangible result, including services for the purchase and subscription to cloud technology services;

electronic trading platform, an information system that allows the purchase and sale of goods (services) remotely; electronic trading platform operator, a legal entity providing electronic trading platform services to ecommerce participants; e-commerce, the purchase and sale of goods according to an agreement concluded through an electronic trading platform, using information systems within the framework of business activity;

e-commerce operator, a legal entity providing services related to the circulation of electronic documents and electronic messages; e-commerce entities, e-commerce participants and/or e-commerce operators.

Main principals of e-commerce include freedom of doing business in e-commerce field, voluntary conclusion of e-commerce contracts, equality of conditions for participation in e-commerce, protection of rights and legitimate interests of e-commerce entities, proper quality of goods (works, services), openness and transparency of e-commerce processes as well as information security.

E-Commerce Law also covers government regulations of e-commerce activity including powers of the Cabinet of Minster of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Ministry of Digital Technologies of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Moreover, it clearly specifies payment methods in e-commerce fields, certain specifics in terms of making payments, system of deposition (escrow) of funds as well as features of goods delivery, goods replacement with defects and/or elimination of those defects and terms of a refund.