Universal declaration: who belongs to persons having equal status as persons authorized to perform state functions

The first stage of universal declaration began on January 1, 2021. At this stage, the obligations to submit a declaration arise from civil servants, equal-status persons, as well as from the spouses of these persons. This was reported by the State Revenue Committee of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The SRC revealed the concept of the term "persons having status equal to persons authorized to perform state functions", specified in Article 1 of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Combating Corruption".

This category of persons includes:

- persons elected to local self-government bodies, that is, akims of the region, area, district in the city, etc., including deputies of the maslikhat;

- citizens registered as a candidate for President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, deputies of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan or maslikhats, akims of cities of district significance, towns, villages, rural districts, as well as members of an elected local government body;

- employees who permanently or temporarily work in a local government body are employees of the maslikhat, akimat, etc.

- persons performing managerial functions in a state organization or a quasi-public sector entity. This category of persons also includes persons who have been granted the right to manage and dispose of the organization's property and the right to issue orders, as well as to apply incentive measures and disciplinary penalties against subordinates. As usual, such powers are assigned to the head of the organization, the chief accountant and other persons who have the right to independently dispose of material values or exercise control over their movement;

- persons authorized to make decisions on the organization and conduct of procurement. This category should include the heads of structural units of a quasi-public sector entity in charge of implementation of procurement procedures, or officials holding a position not lower than the head of an independent structural unit, who are entrusted with the authority to organize and conduct procurement;

- officials of the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan and its departments;

- officials of an authorized organization in the field of civil aviation;

- officials of the authorized body for regulation, control and supervision of the financial market and financial organizations.

 

"It should be noted that the deadline for submitting the Declaration on paper expired on July 15, 2021.

Therefore, we remind you that the deadline for submitting the declaration in electronic form expires on September 15, 2021," -the SRC noted.

To date, the declaration of assets and liabilities has been submitted by 465.4 thousand people, i.e. 96.7% of the total number of declared.