decisions of central executive authorities in the previous years, and application of them in practice, in addition to adoption of new laws and regulations. Amendments made to the criminal legislation by the Law on Making of Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan, dated October 20, 2017, of the Republic of Azerbaijan in compliance with the obligations and provisions specified in this Executive Order have a significant social importance. About 300 amendments have been made to this Code; clauses predicting criminal liability for 15 crimes were removed from the Code; exemption from the criminal liability is set forth for 22 crimes upon reconciliation with the crime victim and indemnification of the loss made, for 26 crimes upon indemnification of the loss made and making of payment to the state budget, for in 1 or 2 fold of the loss made, and for 2 crimes upon execution of the court ruling or concluding a labor agreement. For 1 crime, exemption of persons suffering from drug dependence from criminal liability is predicted after treatment of these persons by applying mandatory medical remedies. Also, alternative penalties to imprisonment were included in the sanctions of 158 crimes in the code, and 18 criminal acts were transferred from the category of less serious crimes to the category of crimes not causing any serious public danger due to mitigation of the penalty of imprisonment for 36 crimes, 4 criminal acts were transferred from the category of serious crimes to the category of less serious crimes, and 1 criminal act was transferred from the category of specially serious crimes to the category of serious crimes. And the penalty of restriction of freedom, mentioned in the proposals of the Ombudsman made within the framework of the NPM activity and stipulating detention of offenders (charged persons) under control in their places of residence without full isolation of them from the society was also included in the Criminal Code as an alternative penalty in a new edition. Restriction of freedom, which is a new penalty type dissimilarly to the penalty type specified in the criminal code,previously, predicts detention of the charged persons under control in their places of residence without full isolation of them from the society. In this case, court restricts movement of the persons imposed to the penalty of restriction of freedom from their places of residence (fully or in some hours of a day) or some territorial limits. From the proposals of the Ombudsman, specified in her annual reports, and her applications to relevant authorities, ‘prevention of imprisonment with inclusion of the penalty of restriction of freedom’ in Clause 52-1 of the Criminal Code; ‘exemption from criminal liability upon reconciliation with the victim’ in Clause 73; ‘exemption from the criminal liability for crimes against property’ in Clause 73-1; ‘exemption from the criminal liability in 60