Information on appeals to the Constitutional Court

As for April 14 of this year the Constitutional Court received 2386 appeals from subjects entitled to apply to the Constitutional Court.

Currently, 358 appeals are under consideration, 10 of them are accepted to constitutional proceedings and 34 appeals are under preliminary consideration of judges.

Mostly citizens apply on issues of disagreement with court decisions - 43%, recognition of normative legal act or its certain provisions as unconstitutional - 22%, access to information - 3.6%, labor and pension provision - 2%, penitentiary system – 1,4% and on other questions.

During this period, based on citizens’ appeals five normative resolutions were issued. In particular, the Constitutional Court recognized certain norms of the Tax Code, the Penitentiary Code and legislation in the field of civil service as inconsistent with the Constitution.  Also, the Constitutional Court ruled that certain norms of the law on pensions and the Code of Criminal Procedure in its given interpretation as constitutional. By the instruction of the President the Constitutional Court considered constitutionality of normative legal acts adopted by the Parliament, namely the Social Code and legal acts on administrative reform. Another appeal was received from a group of deputies on recognizing the Constitutional Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Elbasy” as becoming invalid.

The majority of appeals are received from cities of Astana and Almaty, Kostanay, Karaganda and Zhambyl regions.