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The Regulation of the President of Turkm enistan
of January 14 2004, № 6547

About regi stration of public associations

(The collected decrees of the President of Turkmenistan and the decisions of the Government
of Turkmenistan 2004 year # 1, Article 26)

In accordance with the Law of Turkmenistan “On pu blic associations” I decree:
1. To ratify attached Rules on registration of the public associations.
2. To establish the following rate of registration fee for registration of the public associations:
local public associations – six times the amount of t he basic sum;
national public associations – ten times the amount of the basic sum;
international public associations – forty times the amount of the basic sum;
The amount of the registration fee for the registration of the public associations of disabl ed people,
veterans, youth public associations shall be reduced by 50%.
Children’s public associations shall be exempted from the payment of the registration fee.
Registration fee for the registration of the subsequent amendments and additions to public association’s
charter that does not result in changes in the status of the public association shall be 20% of the
registration fee paid for the registration of the public association.
Registration fee for re -registration of the public association that res ults in changes in the status of the
public association shall be 50% of the fee paid for the registration of the public association (foreign
currency for the public associations, which act on the territory of the foreign state).
Registration fee for re -registration of before registered public associations shall be 50% of the fee paid
for the registration of the public association.
3. Fee for issuance of the duplicates of the registration certificate, public association’s charter shall be
20% of the fee pa id for the registration of the public association.
4. Sums collected as registration fees shall be directed to the State budget of Turkmenistan in
accordance with the established procedure.
5. Ministry of Economy and Finance of Turkmenistan on demand of the Ministry Adalat of
Turkmenistan shall apportion financial funds for producing of the forms of the registration certificates.
6. Declare as invalid the resolution of the President of Turkmenistan of 03/03/1992 “Questions of the
registration of the publ ic associations” (Collection of the acts of the President of Turkmenistan and
regulations of the Government of Turkmenistan, 1992, #3, p. 210).

President of Turkmenistan
Saparmurat Turkmenbashi

Rules on Registration of Public Associations
I. General pr ovisions.
1. These Rules regulate the order of the state registration of public associations on the basis of the
current legislation of Turkmenistan.
2. According to the law legal capacity of the public association as legal entity arises from the moment
of the state registration in Turkmenistan Ministry Adalat and entry of the data into the Unified state
register of legal entities.
3. Ministry Adalat of Turkmenistan registers public associations irrespective of their types and also
irrespective of the fa ct of creation of the branches and representative offices of foreign public
associations on the territory of Turkmenistan.
4. Following documents shall be submitted for the registration of the public association:
 Application;
 Charter of the public assoc iation in two copies;
 Protocol of the founders’ assembly (conference) or general meeting that shall
contain information regarding creation of the public association, confirmation of
its charter and formation of the governing and controlling and auditing b odies;
 Data about founders;
 Document confirming payment of the registration fee;
 Document confirming the fact of providing of legal address to the public
association.
 In addition to the documents indicated above it is necessary to submit document
that confirms the presence of structural subdivision of the organization, branch
representative office for registration of international public association.
For registration on the territory of Turkmenistan of structural subdivisions of foreign public associat ions
it is necessary to submit notary certified copies of founding documents of the main public association
that was created on the territory of the foreign state.
5. Application for registration of the public association and application for registration of amendments
and additions to the charter of the public association shall be signed by all founders and members of the
governing body of the public association with the indication of surname, name, middle name, birth date
and place of residence.
6.The pr otocol of the founders’ assembly (conference) or general meeting that contains information
regarding creation of the public association, confirmation of its charter and formation of the governing
and controlling (auditing) bodies shall also contain the fol lowing data: date and place of the founders’
assembly (conference) or general meeting with the indication to their initials; data regarding
quantitative and personal composition of the working bodies (presidium, secretariat, etc.); the essence
of the adopt ed decisions and the results of voting on such decisions; data (surname, name, middle
name) regarding the elected members of the governing and controlling (auditing) bodies; surnames and
signatures of the chairman and secretary of the assembly (conference) or general meeting, of persons
responsible for the composing of the protocol.
7.Information regarding the founders of the public association that is necessary for the registration of
the public association include: surname, name, middle name, year of bir th, citizenship, address of the
permanent residence and telephone number, passport data (series and number, date and place of
issuance, by which

agency it was issued). The indicated information shall be certified by the personal signatures of the
founde rs.
With regard to the public associations – legal entities, which can belong to the founders along with the
persons following information is necessary: official full name of the public association that shall include
the indication to its organizational l egal form and territorial sphere of its activity; registration date of the
public association with the indication of the number of the registration certificate; legal address.
8. Registration fees for the state registration of the public association, of s ubsequent amendments and
additions to its charter shall be collected according to the procedure and at the rate provided by the
legislation of Turkmenistan.
Public association shall submit document of the bank that confirms payment of the registration fee for
the registration of the public association.
9. Providing of the public association with the legal address can be formalized as rent agreement and
other types of documents that confirm the residence of the public association.
Providing of the public association with the legal address at the address of permanent place of residence
of the citizen (house, apartment that is in personal possession of the citizen) shall not result in refusal in
registration of the public association.
10. The protocol of th e founders’ assembly (conference) or general meeting, information about the
founders and document confirming legal address of the public association shall be submitted in two
copies. After the verification of the identity the originals of these documents s hall be returned to the
representatives of the public associations on receipt on the copies of the documents.
11. Documents for the registration shall be submitted within one month after the date of the founders’
assembly (conference) or general meeting.
12. Documents for the registration shall be submitted by the members of the governing body or by its
representatives or shall be directed to the Ministry Adalat pf Turkmenistan by post with notification and
list of the documents attached.
Specialists of t he Ministry Adalat of Turkmenistan shall accept documents for registration through the
chancellery without the evaluation of the essence of the documents.
The date of the submission of the founding documents to the registering body shall be the date of th eir
entry into the Ministry Adalat of Turkmenistan.
13. Documents and other documents for the registration of the public association shall be submitted in
the state language of Turkmenistan.

II. Preparation of the documents

to the registration of the public association
14. There shall be the stage of preparation of the materials for the consideration before the taking of
decision about the public association registration. During this stage the charter and other founding
documents shall be analyzed in order to reveal:
Whether the documents are in compliance with the Constitution of Turkmenistan, Civil Code of
Turkmenistan of Saparmurat Turkmenbashi, Law “On Public Association” and other normative
legal acts;
Whether the list of the required documents is complete and whether the documents are drafted
correctly;
Whether the information that is contained in the documents submitted for the registration of the
founding documents is reliable;
Whether the name of the public association is in accordance with the requirements of the
legislation;

Whether in the register of public associations of the registered public association with the
same name o n the territory in which limits the given public association carries out the
activity.

15. During the process of the preparation for the registration the materials can be returned to the
public association with the note in the journal of incoming documentation (except one copy of the
charter and application which are left in the Ministry Adalat of Turkmenistan).
16. Governing body of the public association shall be informed by the ministry Adalat of
Turkmenistan in case of remarks regarding the content of the founding documents that require
revisions.
There shall be no editing of the founding documents by the sp ecialists of the registering body.
17. Leaders of the public associations shall have the right to represent the interests of the public
associations without power of attorney if they are endowed by the charter with the right to represent
the public associ ation in state bodies. Other persons shall have the right to represent the public
association with the power of attorney, which is issued in accordance with the charter by the
authorized governing body or by the authorized official of the public associatio n.
III. Decisions on application

for registration of the public association
18. Ministry Adalat of Turkmenistan is obliged within one month period to consider the application
of the public association for its registration. As result one of the followin g decisions shall be taken:
. to register the public association and issue the certificate of registration;
. to reject application for registration of the public association together with the written reasoned
rejection, which can be appealed to Kazyet.

19 . On the basis of the decision of registration the public association shall be provided with the
registration number and shall be included into the register of the public associations.
20. Registered public association shall be given the registration cert ificate of the prescribed form
and one copy of the charter bound and sealed by the Ministry Adalat of Turkmenistan.
21. Two copies of the charter of the public association shall be bound and sealed by the signature of
the responsible official and by the o fficial stamp of the Ministry Adalat on the reverse side of the
last page.
Second copy of the public association’s charter and copy of the registration certificate shall be
bound into the registration file, which shall be kept in the Ministry Adalat of Tu rkmenistan.
22. Public association can be refused registration in accordance with the procedure established by
the current legislation.
Public association shall not be refused registration on the basis of inexpedience of its creation.
23. In case of ref usal in registration of the public association the applicants shall be informed within
10 -days period in written form with indication to the Turkmenistan legislation provisions which are
violated.
Documents submitted to the registration shall be returned to the public association. Copies of all
documents submitted by the moment of refusal in registration shall be kept in the Ministry Adalat of
Turkmenistan.
24. Refusal to register the public association shall not prevent subsequent submission of the
docum ents for the registration, subject to elimination of the shortcomings, which were the grounds
for such refusal.
Consideration of the subsequent application to the Ministry Adalat of Turkmenistan and decision on
such application shall be made according to the procedure established by the Turkmenistan
legislation.
25. Refusal to register the public association can be appealed to Kazyet.

26. Amendments and additions to the charters of the public associations shall be registered
according to the procedure an d within the period of time established for the registration of the
public association itself.
27. In case of registration of the amendments and additions to the public associations charters which
result in changes in organizational legal form, name, plac e of residence of the governing body,
territorial sphere of activity, aims and other significant features reflected in the Register, such public
associations shall be issued another certificate of registration. The previous certificate of registration
and previous registered charter shall be returned to the Ministry Adalat of Turkmenistan.
IV. Cancellation of the registration of the public association

28. In cases stipulated by the charter the public associations can be liquidated and stop their activiti es
on decision of assembly (conference) or general meeting or on decision of Kazyet, and also in case of
cancellation of the registration by the Ministry Adalat of Turkmenistan.
Ministry Adalat of Turkmenistan cancels the registration if the public associ ation mainly switched to
the entreprenual activity or if the execution of the aim envisaged by the charter is impossible.
Application for the liquidation of the public association can be submitted to the Ministry Adalat of
Turkmenistan in cases provided b y the law.
In case of execution of the Kazyet’s decision on liquidation of the public association the Ministry
Adalat of Turkmenistan issues the order on abolition of the registration of the public association and on
exclusion of the public association fr om the Register.
29. The registration certificate of the public association and registered charter of the public association
shall be seized and attached to the materials of registration file which is kept in the Ministry Adalat of
Turkmenistan.
30. The decision on cancellation of the registration and exclusion of the public association from the
Register shall be directed to the governing body of the public association, to the State service on foreign
investments under the President of Turkmenistan, to th e organs of state tax service, to
Turkmemillikhasabat, to bank institutions.
V. Consideration of the applications regarding

issuance of the duplicates of the documents.
31. In case of loss of original of the registration certificate of the public assoc iation or of the public
association charter the Ministry Adalat of Turkmenistan shall issue duplicate of these documents.
32. Following documents shall be submitted to the Ministry Adalat of Turkmenistan for issuance of the
duplicate of the public associa tion registration certificate and (or) public association charter:
. Application signed by the leaders of the public association;
. Decision of the governing body of the public association on the fact of loss of the documents’
originals;
. Materials of the ex amination, acts, references and other documents confirming the fact of loss of
the above indicated documents’ originals.

33. Application for the issuance of the duplicates of the public association registration certificate and
charter shall be considered in the Ministry Adalat of Turkmenistan within one month period.
In case of drafting of duplicates of registration documents there shall be made “duplicate” inscription on
the right side of the document. The copy of the issued duplicate of the document an d materials that were
the ground for the duplicate’s issuance shall be attached to the registration file.

VI. Drafting and keeping of the materials of registration.

34. Registration materials of the public associations shall be put into separate files each of which shall
contain all documents submitted to the registration and indicated in item 4 of these Rules and copy of
the public association registration certificate as well.
References regarding the inspection of the public association charter activ ity, all subsequent
correspondence with the public association, annual reporting information about the continuance of the
public association activity, etc. shall be attached to the registration file.
Pages of the registration file shall be enumerated, fastened together and bound into the file together with
the list of all documents attached.