Ethics Commissioner – a civil servant who performs activities to ensure compliance with the norms of official ethics and prevent violations of the legislation on public service, anti – corruption and the code of Ethics of civil servants of the Republic of Kazakhstan (hereinafter-the code of Ethics), as well as advising civil servants and citizens within their functions.
The ethics Commissioner is guided in his activities by the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated November 23, 2015 "on public service of the Republic of Kazakhstan", November 18, 2015" on combating corruption", the code of Ethics, this Regulation, as well as other legislative acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
An independent office of the Commissioner for ethics is introduced in Central government agencies (excluding law enforcement and special state bodies, as well as the Ministry of defence of the Republic of Kazakhstan), which has territorial units or territorial divisions of departments, foreign institutions, and also akimats of oblasts, cities of Republican significance, the capital.