Chapter 1. General Provisions
- The Department of Science and Innovation (hereinafter referred to as the Department) is a structural subdivision of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Atomic Energy (hereinafter referred to as the Agency).
- In its activities, the Department is guided by the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan, laws, acts of the President and the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, other regulatory legal acts, as well as this Regulation.
- The structure of the Department is approved by the Chairman of the Agency, and the staffing level of the Department is approved by the head of the Agency's apparatus in the manner established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
- The Department consists of:
- the Scientific and Technical Projects Management;
- the Innovation Development Management.
Chapter 2. Tasks, Rights, Duties, Functions of the Department
- Tasks of the Department:
- ensuring the development of science, technology, and innovation in the spheres regulated by the Agency;
- ensuring the development of scientific infrastructure, as well as facilitating the creation of new innovative technologies and industries in the field of atomic energy use;
- international cooperation on the development of science, technology, and innovation in the spheres regulated by the Agency;
- performing other tasks in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
- Rights and Duties of the Department:
The Department has the right to:
- request and receive from structural subdivisions and subordinate organizations of the Agency, state bodies and organizations information, documents, and data necessary for performing the tasks and functions assigned to the Department;
- organize and conduct meetings on issues within the competence of the Department;
- submit proposals for determining staffing needs;
- exercise other rights necessary for the implementation of its tasks and functions, in accordance with legislative acts, acts of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and other regulatory legal acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The Department is obliged to:
- provide explanations on issues within the competence of the Department in the manner established by law;
- conduct legal monitoring within the deadlines established by the schedule approved by the head of the Agency's apparatus, and submit the results of the legal monitoring to the Legal Service Department in the form according to Appendix 2 to the Rules for Conducting Legal Monitoring, approved by Order No. 471 of the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated July 11, 2023;
- twice a year (by July 1 of the current year and by January 1 of the year following the reporting year) submit to the Legal Service Department lists of adopted regulatory legal acts for which the Department was the developer, in the form according to Appendix 5 to the Rules for Conducting Legal Monitoring, approved by Order No. 471 of the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated July 11, 2023;
- ensure the adoption of regulatory legal acts mandatory for execution regarding the development of science, technology, and innovation in the field of atomic energy use;
- within its competence, consider applications from individuals and legal entities, petitions from citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the manner and within the timeframes established by the Administrative Procedural and Process Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
- prepare and send operational and current information, analytical reports on the current state and development of the sphere within the Department's competence to structural subdivisions of the Agency upon their request;
- ensure, within its competence, compliance with laws and other regulatory legal acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of national security, protection of state secrets, civil protection, mobilization preparation and mobilization, on combating corruption, terrorism;
- within its competence, send to the Strategic Planning Department proposals on issues requiring consideration at the upcoming Apparatus Meeting of the Chairman of the Agency, with the attachment of relevant information and materials;
- submit to the Budget and Financial Procedures Department and the Legal Service Department of the Agency information about suppliers who have failed to fulfill or improperly fulfilled their obligations under concluded state procurement contracts for supervised budget programs;
- observe labor and performance discipline, rules of official ethics, state and official secrets;
- ensure compliance with the requirements of Articles 8, 9, and 10 of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Languages in the Republic of Kazakhstan" in record-keeping;
- within its competence, perform other duties provided for by legislative acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan, acts of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and other subordinate acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
- Functions:
- participates in the formation of priority areas for fundamental and (or) applied scientific research in the relevant industry within the Agency's regulatory sphere;
- ensures the creation of the Agency's Scientific and Technical Council (hereinafter referred to as the STC);
- ensures the development and approval of the STC regulations;
- ensures the activities of the STC in accordance with the STC regulations;
- organizes the development of scientific, scientific and technical projects and programs funded from budgetary funds and implements them in the relevant industry within the Agency's regulatory sphere;
- ensures the approval of reports on completed scientific, scientific and technical projects and programs in the relevant industry within the Agency's regulatory sphere, funded from budgetary funds;
- forms proposals on candidates for inclusion in the composition of national scientific councils, as well as on the formation of lists of entities for basic funding and scientific organizations conducting fundamental scientific research;
- participates in the development of rules for science funding;
- participates in the development of rules for organizing and conducting state scientific and technical expertise;
- participates in the development of regulations on national scientific councils;
- ensures the development and approval of rules for financing research, scientific and technical, and (or) experimental design works in the amount of one percent of the costs of uranium extraction incurred by the subsoil user during the extraction period based on the results of the previous year, jointly with the structural subdivisions of the Agency and the authorized body in the field of science;
- carries out organizational and methodological coordination of work on the implementation of the Agency's scientific and technical projects and programs funded from subsoil users' funds within the framework of subsoil users' obligations in the field of science;
- participates in the development of draft program documents in the part concerning science and innovation;
- carries out planning and monitoring of the implementation of republican budget investment projects in the field of atomic energy use in the part concerning science and innovation;
- coordinates the activities of subordinate organizations (RSE on the right of economic management "National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan", RSE on the right of economic management "Institute of Nuclear Physics") in the part concerning the development of science, technology, and innovation in the spheres regulated by the Agency;
- participates in the creation of a Science City on the basis of the republican state enterprise on the right of economic management "National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan" in the city of Kurchatov, Abai region, as well as other scientific centers and clusters provided for by the documents of the State Planning System of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
- coordinates normative technical documents in the part concerning science, technology, and innovation within the competence of the Department;
- develops proposals for attracting investments in the development of science, technology, and innovation in the spheres regulated by the Agency, within its competence;
- participates in the work on the formation of international scientific, technical, and innovation programs and projects within the competence of the Department;
- conducts country analysis of the development of scientific and innovative activities in the field of peaceful use of atomic energy and develops proposals for adapting best practices;
- develops proposals on the content of educational programs in the part concerning the development of science, technology, and innovation in the field of atomic energy use;
- develops scientific and technical assignments within the framework of program-targeted funding for priority areas of the Agency's research and experimental design works, ensures their methodological support and expertise within its competence;
- develops regulatory legal acts on issues within the competence of the Department, and in accordance with the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Legal Acts" ensures their adoption;
- carries out legal monitoring of legislation, based on the results of which, within its competence, forms proposals for the development of new and amendments to existing regulatory legal acts or their repeal;
- participates in the formation and implementation of state, sectoral, and strategic programs within the competence of the Department;
- implements regulatory legal acts, strategic and program documents, ensures the achievement of goals and objectives in regulated spheres;
- carries out high-quality and timely preparation of draft acts and responses to instructions from the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the leadership of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as the execution of control instructions from higher authorities on supervised issues;
- participates in conducting competitive procedures for state procurement of the republican budget program within its competence;
- considers draft regulatory legal acts of state bodies received by the Agency via the intranet portal of state bodies, within the competence of the Department;
- ensures the reduction of document flow and information flows on issues within the competence of the Department;
- provides, within its competence, information on the directions of the Agency's performance evaluation, is responsible for achieving performance indicators within its competence;
- considers applications from individuals and legal entities, petitions from citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the manner and within the timeframes established by the Administrative Procedural and Process Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan within the competence of the Department;
- carries out accounting and storage of documents, controls their condition and safety until their transfer for storage to the Agency's archive;
- within its competence, participates in the development, implementation, and formulation of proposals for the Agency's Development Plan;
- ensures the achievement of strategic goals and objectives, indicators and targets of the Agency's Development Plan within its competence;
- develops technical specifications for the development of an investment program, ensures their approval;
- performs other functions in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Chapter 3. Organization of the Department's Activities
- The Department possesses the rights and duties necessary for the implementation of its tasks, in accordance with legislative acts, acts of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and other regulatory legal acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
- The Department is headed by a Director, appointed and dismissed in the manner established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
- The Director of the Department exercises general management of the Department's activities and bears personal responsibility for the timely and high-quality performance of the tasks assigned to the Department and the exercise of its powers.
- The Director of the Department submits to the Agency's management proposals on the structure and staffing level of the Department, as well as on rewarding and imposing disciplinary penalties on the Department's employees.
- Documents sent on behalf of the Department to other structural subdivisions on issues within the competence of the Department are signed by the Director of the Department, and in his/her absence - by the person acting on his/her behalf.