The Antitrust Committee has recognized 29 companies with exclusive rights as having a dominant position in the commodity or financial market, the press service of the Committee said.

According to the Competition Law, companies or a group of persons are recognized as having an advantageous position if they have been granted an exclusive right to produce, sell or purchase certain goods.

Some companies with exclusive rights:

• To'palang HPD Holding - the exclusive right to build and modernize Uzbekhydroenergo facilities, is the general contractor. According to the Unified State Register of Enterprises and Organizations, the owner (30%) of To'palang HPD Holding is Islom Abdurakhmanov - the son of the chief of Uzbekhydroenergo Abdugani Sanginov. The remaining 70% belong to Smart Fast Stroy, the owner of which is Alexander Zakharyan (also owns Asia Alliance Group, Finance Invest Brok);
• Uzinfocom is the operator of the digital healthcare platform as part of the project Support for reforms in the field of digital healthcare;
• Sharq Publishing and Printing Joint-Stock Company - production of forms and covers for service IDs;
• CRPT Turon private company, which is owned by Digital Holding (owned by a company affiliated with Alisher Usmanov, as well as the Management of State-Owned Assets Agency). It is the exclusive operator of the Asl Belgisi product labeling and tracking system, provides labeling codes to manufacturers and importers of products subject to mandatory labeling;
• Soliq-servis is the operator of the tax free system, providing services for a partial refund of the amount of VAT paid to foreign citizens when they purchase certain types of goods from retailers in Uzbekistan;
• IT company Unicon soft is the operator of the unified interdepartmental electronic system of executive discipline edo.ijro.uz and Ijro.gov.uz. It also connects organizations to which legal services are provided by Legal Service Centers to the electronic system E-huquqshunos, as well as provides services for storing system data and their safe use. 75% of the company belongs to Prosoft (owned by Sherzod Khabibullaev, Khairulla Umarov, Bakhtiyar Usmanov), 25% - to the Agency for Management of State Assets;
• Uzagrosugurta - compulsory state insurance of life and health of judges;

In April, the Committee published a register of 67 companies with exclusive rights in 81 types of activities in some markets in the construction, design, electronic trading, certification sectors.