Summary reporting information
on the activities of the Ethics Commissioner
Ministry of Justice and Territorial Divisions
for the third quarter of 2021
Pursuant to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On measures for further improvement of ethical norms and rules of conduct of civil servants of the Republic of Kazakhstan" dated December 29, 2015 No. 153, the Ethics Commissioner (hereinafter referred to as the EtC) carries out its activities to ensure compliance with the norms of official ethics and prevention of violations of legislation in the field of public service and anti-corruption.
In order to prevent violations of ethical norms, to increase the level of ethics of civil servants of the EtC, explanatory events are held on an ongoing basis in the form of seminars, lectures and speeches in the mass media.
Thus, during the reporting period, the EtC of the justice authorities conducted 492 preventive and explanatory events, including lectures and seminars - 255, video and radio materials - 40, publications in the media - 54 and on the Internet resources - 143.
Paragraph 9 of the EtC Regulation stipulates that the Ethics Commissioner must receive civil servants and other citizens at least once a month. Thus, during the reporting period, the ethics commissioners of the judicial authorities provided 345 individual consultations on compliance with the requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the areas of public service, anti – corruption and the Ethical Code of Civil Servants of the Republic of Kazakhstan, including 154 – civil servants, 191 - individuals and legal entities. 322 citizens are personally received on the issues of the activities of the justice bodies.
And also, in order to monitor the state of the moral and psychological climate in the team and compliance with the norms of official ethics, ethics commissioners conduct anonymous questionnaires of civil servants at least 2 times a year. So during the reporting period, a total of 1173 civil servants took part in the survey.