Toraighyrov University hosted a free seminar “Anti-corruption expertise of draft regulatory legal acts” for the public of Pavlodar region and all comers.

The expert and mentor was Zauresh Battalova, President of the “Development Fund for Parliamentarism in Kazakhstan”, a freelance adviser to the Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Deputy Republican Special Monitoring Group of the Anti-Corruption Service of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

At the end of November last year, the Head of State Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a law according to which, on January 1, 2020, an anti-corruption expertise of legal acts with wide public involvement was introduced. Such an examination will allow to identify and eliminate possible corruption risks and conflicts at the stage of development of legislative and regulatory legal acts.

“Our task is to develop and improve specific legal mechanisms that will eliminate corruption risks in normative legal acts and bills, as well as increase the professional potential of experts in establishment of preventive anti-corruption mechanisms and the potential of civil society to participate in the legislative process, public legal monitoring”, Zauresh Battalova noted.

- Anti-corruption expertise should not be the prerogative of experts dependent on government agencies. This seminar provides an opportunity for all concerned citizens to become a participant of amendments and changes to bills in which the corruption component is viewed, and to declare this”, Aidar Tastemirov, head of the Anti-Corruption Service for Pavlodar Region said, addressing the participants of the seminar.

Taking into account the number of participants at Toraighyrov University, the number of people trained in anti-corruption expertise in the republic has reached thousands.