The President considers it necessary to improve the management system of enterprises in the cotton industry, including optimizing the structure of existing organizations, creating healthy competition among agricultural producers and favorable legal and organizational conditions for their effective operation. The functions of control the reliability of accounting and reporting at ginneries shall be assigned to the Main Department of State Financial Control of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The leading business entity in the sphere of cotton industry JSC "Uzpahtasanoat" shall perform the following tasks: (a) ensuring the implementation of a unified policy in the field of the organization and implementation of a complex of works on the acceptance, storage, transportation and processing of raw cotton, the preparation of cotton sowing seeds, the creation of modern production facilities for the production of high-quality cotton products that meet the requirements of international standards; (b) organization of accounting and control over the reliability of data on the quantity, quality and grade of raw cotton taken from agricultural producers, the yields of cotton fiber and cottonseed, the quantity and quality of cotton fiber produced and marketed by cotton ginning enterprises through the wide introduction of modern information and communication technologies; (c) making timely and complete mutual settlements for purchased raw cotton and cotton products shipped to consumers in accordance with concluded contracts; (d) the implementation of a unified technical policy and the provision of assistance to cotton ginning enterprises, cotton terminals in the implementation of modernization, the introduction of modern high-performance equipment and advanced production technologies, the broad attraction of investments, first of all, to foreign direct investment; (e) assistance to cotton ginning enterprises in their activities in the cotton-textile clusters system as processors of tolling raw materials; (f) development of scientific, technical and experimental research, introduction of innovative ideas, developments and technologies into the cotton industry; and (g) organization on a system basis of retraining and advanced training of staff of the cotton industry enterprises, including the involvement of foreign educational institutions, as well as the implementation of close cooperation with the leading organizations of foreign countries in the field of development of the cotton industry.