Article 6. Purpose and features of the civil service On the Civil Service of the Republic of Kazakhstan

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1. The purpose and, at the same time, the mission of the civil service shall be to implement the functions and objectives of the state as set out in the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan and other statutory instruments of the Republic of Kazakhstan; to ensure the realisation of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of individuals and citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan; and to ensure the quality and accessibility of civil services available to them.

2. The remit of the civil service shall encompass the following areas:

1) ensuring the protection of the labour rights of citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan, occupational health and safety, the implementation of measures relating to social security and pensions, social insurance, the provision of specialised social services, and social support for socially vulnerable groups of citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

2) ensuring that the rights of citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan to health protection and disease prevention are upheld; ensuring the availability and guaranteed provision of healthcare services; and meeting the needs of citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan for efficient, high-quality and affordable medicines;

3) ensuring that citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan can exercise their right to a guaranteed secondary education at no cost to them; offering quality and accessible education at all levels; protecting the rights and legitimate interests of children; and promoting the development of science and technology;

4) ensuring environmental protection, the country’s ecological safety, the rational use and restoration of natural resources, the management of forests and specially protected natural areas, and the protection, reproduction and use of wildlife;

5) ensuring the protection, rational use and restoration of the country’s water resources; securing the water needs of the population and economic sectors; preserving the water resources; and protecting water bodies from pollution, silting and depletion;

6) promoting the development of tourism, mass and professional sport, and ensuring that sporting events are accessible to all sections of the population;

7) ensuring the support and development of culture, the development of the state language and other languages, the information sector and public institutions, as well as ensuring the implementation of state policy in the field of religious activities;

8) ensuring the development of the agro-industrial complex, aquaculture, seed production, cereal crops and plant quarantine, livestock breeding, veterinary medicine and beekeeping;

9) ensuring the management of land resources, the rational use and protection of land, the regulation of land relations, the maintenance of the land register and the monitoring of land;

10) ensuring the implementation of transport policy, satisfying the transport needs of the economy and the population of the Republic of Kazakhstan, ensuring the accessibility and quality of transport services, and developing transport infrastructure;

11) promoting the development of industry, the mining and metallurgical sector, mechanical engineering, the construction industry, the regulation of subsoil use, as well as housing and public utilities;

12) ensuring that the energy and energy resource needs of the population and economic sectors are met; the development of petroleum products and gas production, gas supply, the electricity sector, heat supply, the use of nuclear energy, the development of renewable energy sources, and uranium mining;

13) ensuring cybersecurity, the efficient digital transformation of the economy, the development of digital infrastructure, and the protection of personal data, electronic documents and electronic digital signatures;

14) ensuring the planning and implementation of the budget, tax administration, public debt management, regulation in the field of customs, public procurement, and the management of state property;

15) ensuring the formulation and implementation of the state’s monetary policy, the functioning of payment systems, and the exercise of foreign exchange regulation and control;

16) ensuring the stability of the financial system, regulating and developing the financial market, monitoring the financial market and financial institutions, and protecting the interests of consumers of financial services;

17) ensuring the implementation of a unified state policy in the field of the civil service and monitoring compliance with quality standards in the provision of public and socially responsible services, as well as formulating and refining state policy in the field of statistical activities;

18) promoting the development of entrepreneurship, public-private partnerships, the regulation of natural monopolies, the protection of competition and the restriction of monopolistic practices;

19) ensuring the development and regulation of foreign trade and domestic trade, the development and promotion of exports of non-commodity goods and services, and the protection of consumer rights;

20) developing and implementing measures concerning the Republic of Kazakhstan’s foreign policy and foreign economic activities; ensuring the protection of national interests on the international stage; and safeguarding the rights and legitimate interests of citizens and legal entities of the Republic of Kazakhstan abroad;

21) safeguarding the foundations of the constitutional order, state sovereignty, territorial integrity, and the Republic of Kazakhstan’s economic, scientific, technical and defence capabilities; protecting the state border of the Republic of Kazakhstan; maintaining and ensuring government communications; and countering terrorism and extremism;

22) ensuring the state’s defence capability, the combat and mobilisation capability of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, other troops and military formations, and the special state and law enforcement agencies of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as the armed defence of the country’s territorial integrity and sovereignty;

23) ensuring the safety of protected persons and protected sites;

24) maintaining public order, combating crime, ensuring public safety and road safety;

25) ensuring the prevention and resolution of natural and man-made emergencies and their consequences, and the functioning and development of the state civil defence system;

26) ensuring the protection and restoration of the human and civil rights and freedoms of citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the rights and legitimate interests of legal entities, society and the state; investigating and eliminating breaches of the law, the causes and conditions contributing to them, as well as their consequences;

27) ensuring the formulation and implementation of anti-corruption policy, and the detection, prevention, disclosure and investigation of corruption offences;

28) combating the legalisation (laundering) of proceeds of crime, the financing of terrorism and the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction;

29) other areas specified by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

3. The distinguishing features of the civil service from other forms of employment shall cover:

1) the special legal status of civil servants, including additional rights, duties, benefits, guarantees and restrictions laid down by the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

2) the specific conditions and procedures for entry into, service within and termination of the civil service;

3) the public-law nature of civil servants’ activities, which includes the exercise of official powers aimed at fulfilling the functions and tasks of the state, safeguarding the interests of the state and society, and ensuring the realisation of the human and civil rights and freedoms of citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan as stipulated in the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan № 290-VIII ZRK of 19 May 2026

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Article 6. Personnel Management Service (HR Department) The Law on the Civil Service of the Republic of Kazakhstan

1. Personnel Management Service (HR Department) within its competence:

1) coordinates the activities of the structural divisions of the state body for the implementation of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of public service;

2) organizes the activities of disciplinary, competitive and other personnel commissions;

3) ensures compliance with the procedures for evaluating the activities of administrative civil servants, competitive selection, promotion of civil servants, official investigations, bringing civil servants to disciplinary responsibility, and dismissal of civil servants;

4) organizes the selection of personnel, draws up documents related to the passage of civil servants in the civil service, records the personal data of civil servants, information on the results of evaluating the activities of administrative civil servants and training, including in the unified automated database (digital system) for civil service personnel;

4-1) organizes the selection of contract employees and the process of concluding, amending and terminating the contract with them;

5) ensures compliance with restrictions related to public service;

6) organizes internships, mentoring, performance evaluation, training, retraining and advanced training of civil servants in accordance with established deadlines, develops a procedure for the application of incentives for civil servants;

7) exercise other powers established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

2. The Personnel Management Service (HR service) is organizationally independent from other structural divisions of a state body, directly subordinated to the head of the staff, and in a state body that manages foreign policy activities or in which the position of head of staff has not been introduced, to the head of the state body.

3. In regions, cities of republican significance, the capital, districts, cities, it is allowed to create, in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of public service, a unified personnel management service (HR service) for executive bodies funded from the budgets of the relevant administrative-territorial units. The Unified Personnel Management Service (HR service) of regional, cities of republican significance, the capital, district, and city executive bodies funded from local budgets is created by decision of an official (body) authorized to appoint the heads of these executive bodies.

For district and city territorial divisions of the central state body and its departments, it is allowed to create a single personnel management service (HR service) in an interregional or regional territorial division of the central state body and its departments. A unified personnel management service (HR service) of district and city territorial divisions is created by decision of the head of an interregional or regional territorial division of a central government agency and its department or a higher authority.

By decision of the head of the central government agency, it is allowed to create a unified personnel management service (HR service) for the central government agency, its departments and territorial divisions.

By the decision of the head of the department of the central state body, it is allowed to create a unified personnel management service (HR service) for the department of the central state body and its territorial divisions.

The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated November 23, 2015 No. 416-V SAM.

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