One and a half year to the Ministry of Trade and Integration: no corruption offenses

At the initiative of the parties, a meeting was held between the leadership of the anti-corruption Agency and the Ministry of tradeand integration. The main agenda is focused on issues of cooperation in the field of corruption prevention in the areas supervised by the Ministry.

Territorial divisions of the anti-Corruption service, MIT, its departments and subordinate organizations also took part in the videoconference event.

Deputy Chairman of the Agency Dmitry Malakhov noted that since the formation of the Ministry of trade and integration (July 2019), not a single corruption offense has been detected. "At the same time, you should not relax. Corruption risks in the areas supervised by the Ministry are characterized by a high degree of latency. In this regard, it is necessary to implement a number of preventive measures to ensure the sustainability of the positive indicator, " the speaker stressed.

In particular, among the key corruption risks, the issues of regulating tariff quotas, intra-quota rates, providing tariff benefits, and setting thresholds for retail prices for socially important food products are indicated.

There is also a "direct contact" between citizens, entrepreneurs and employees of the Department in the implementation of the state control function
monitoring compliance with legislation on consumer protection, as well as technical regulation and Metrology.

Executive Secretary of the Ministry Zhanibek Nupirov informed about the measures taken to combat corruption, focusing on the automation and optimization of business processes.

In particular, all public services provided have been transferred to an electronic format. In order to simplify the submission of complaints by the consumer protection Committee, a chatbot and a group in the Telegram messenger were created. Since July of this year, the system of electronic accreditation in the field of conformity assessment has been launched.

A number of projects are currently being implemented. "Single digital window for exporters – export.gov.kz" it will allow creating an appropriate user-friendly digital platform and reengineering business processes to provide state support measures in the field of export promotion.

Another project – "a Digital platform for the protection of the rights of consumers". It will provide centralized collection, processing аnd management of consumer requests.

In the future, the national accreditation center plans to switch to "e-accreditation". This means that the submission of an application, conclusion of contracts, and issuance of an accreditation certificate to enterprises issuing certificates of conformity will be carried out exclusively in electronic form using a digital signature.
It is reported that the Ministry aims to centralize support services and subordinate organizations.