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S.Baizakov, A.Tulepbekova, A.Assenova: Regulatory policy of Kazakhstan: problems and
perspectives

One of the fundamental directions of the policy of enterprise development is
the deregulation of entrepreneurial activity by facilitating the permissive and
notification system.
In Kazakhstan, the role of regulation in the field of entrepreneurship has
already clearly manifested itself at the initial stage of reforming the permissive and
notification system. In particular, in order to limit the arbitrary introduction of new
regulated types of entrepreneurial activities, to restrict regulatory areas and create
conditions for their transfer to a competitive environment, in 2007 the Law of the
Republic of Kazakhstan "On Licensing" was adopted in a new version (now lost its
force due to the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Permits and Notifications"
which was adopted in 2014). This provided some progress in optimizing the
licensing system. According to foreign experts, the law reduced the issuance of
licenses to 240,000 entrepreneurs, which allowed the Kazakhstani business to save
about 10 billion tenge, without reducing the state budget revenues from the shortfall
in license fees in 2008 [http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P080001100]. In addition, since
2000, the certification procedures have been transferred to a competitive
environment, which allowed the opening of more than 200 conformity assessment
bodies, 500 testing laboratories and 400 metrological services [In the same place].
In Kazakhstan, the implementation of the regulatory policy allowed to
"squeeze" the permissive system twice - in 2012 and in 2016.
According to experts' calculations, the "squeezing" of the permissive system in
2012 by reducing 331 procedures allowed cutting business costs by at least 28 billion
tenge, and for an unlimited number of business entities. In 2016, the optimization of
the permissive system was carried out by simplifying the entire system as a whole and
by reducing the permissive documents by 50%. At the same time, the overall
reduction in the costs of entrepreneurs in 2016, as a result of a reduction in the number
of permits issued on a fee basis, amounted to KZT 3.7 billion.
The main trends in the development of the licensing system are:
- Reduction, optimization and categorization of permits, the establishment of a
single list of permits and notifications by law;
- Full automation of the procedure for issuing permits, including licenses and
notifications.

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