Enhancing quality of justice to improve business environment in Azerbaijan
By Trend
Enhancing the quality of justice will improve the investment and business environment in Azerbaijan, said Orkhan Mammadov, chairman of the board of the Agency for the Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), Trend reports May 20.
Mammadov reminded that one of the Agency’s mandates is to protect the legitimate interests of SMEs, noting that this directly affects the effectiveness of the Agency’s work in other areas.
He added that the reforms being carried out in the judicial and legal system of Azerbaijan over the past years have significantly contributed to the strengthening of the judicial institution.
“As noted in the relevant decree by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, reforms that are being carried out in all areas to ensure sustainable progress of the country dictate the need to begin a new stage in the development of the judicial system and deepen reforms in this area,” Mammadov said. “From this point of view, the measures reflected in the presidential decree on deepening reforms in the judicial and legal system cover important issues serving to improvement of the quality and effectiveness of justice and as a result improvement of the investment and business environment.”
Noting that the provisions of the decree are aimed at protecting the rights of entrepreneurs, he stressed the importance of these provisions in terms of solving the problems of subjects of SMEs, and also put forward proposals for conducting educational events for entrepreneurs on a single judicial experience, the transition to electronic office work in the judicial system, etc.