Istanbul Anti-Corruption Action Plan for

Kazakhstan is partially compliant with this recommendation. 
Recommendation 23 
Improve legal regulation, which establish prohibitions and limitations, as well as responsibilities 
for preventing of conflict of interest for state officials, in order to prevent that the private or material 
interests of any state official, his/her relatives or business partners can affect his/her performance in the 
public interests; in order to promote transparency of state officials activities and their accountability to 
the society, and to promote the trust of the society to the activities of state officials. 
There has been some progress in introducing mechanisms to prevent conflicts of interest, although 
progress on enforcement is unclear. At the time of the survey, a competitive system for public service has 
been introduced including a requirement of attestation by public officials every three years. The APSA 
reports that there are plans underway for public hearings on cases involving conflict of interest.
Two positive steps in achieving transparency, accountability and trust in the civil service are the “Law 
on Administrative Procedures”, adopted on 21 July 2007, and Resolutions No.558 & 559 (30 June 2007) of 
the Government of Kazakhstan, which require all agencies to adopt new criteria for services to be provided 

---

36 
by civil servants, thereby increasing their accountability. However, as these standards have not yet been 
established, it is not possible to assess their effectiveness.
To raise public awareness the APSA reports it has advertised on bus stations, and reports receiving 
over 6,000 complaints that resulted in the prosecution of 1,500 public servants although it is unclear if 
those statistics are limited to conflict of interest situations. 
Civil society actors interviewed reported that in practice conflict of interest prohibitions are not 
enforced uniformly, if at all.