Article 1. The basic concepts used in this Law are the Law on Access to Information
The following basic concepts are used in this Law:
1) information – information about persons, objects, facts, events, phenomena and processes recorded in any form, compiled or received by the owners of the information and available to them;
2) access to information is the right of everyone, guaranteed by the state and enshrined in the Constitution and laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan, to freely receive and disseminate information in any way not prohibited by law.;
2-1) authorized body in the field of access to information – the central executive body responsible for the management and cross-sectoral coordination in the field of access to information;
3) information user – a natural or legal person requesting and/or using information;
3-1) proactive dissemination of information – dissemination of information, with the exception of information with limited access, without the request of the user of the information and on the initiative of the owner of the information in the interests of ensuring transparency of their activities and (or) public participation in the adoption of acts and decisions affecting the rights and legitimate interests of an unlimited number of persons;
4) the Internet portal of open budgets is a state digital resource that provides the placement of budget reports, consolidated financial statements, the civil budget, the results of state audit and financial control and other materials, information and documents to be published in accordance with the Budget Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as public discussion of budget programs and reports on the implementation of budget programs;
5) open data – digital data presented in machine-readable form and intended for free use, processing, republication and dissemination, placed in the public domain;
6) the Internet portal of open data is a government digital resource for the centralized placement, description, storage, search, access and reuse of open data, as well as the provision of software interfaces for machine access to such data.;
6-1) the Internet portal of open dialogue is a state-owned digital resource that provides the opportunity for users to send information requests through the blog platform of the first heads of quasi–public sector entities, with the exception of persons with absolute state participation, as well as the participation of information users in Internet conferences and surveys;
7) the Internet portal of open regulatory legal acts is a state digital resource that provides the posting of draft regulatory legal acts and other information in accordance with this Law for public discussion, with the exception of information with limited access.;
7-1) open government is a digital object that provides access to information about government activities and citizens' participation in discussion and decision-making through interconnected Internet portals of open data, open budgets, and open regulatory legal acts;
7-2) socially significant information – information of public interest, established by Article 6 of this Law;
8) information with limited access – information classified as state secrets, personal, family, banking, commercial secrets, medical worker secrets and (or) other legally protected secrets, personal data of limited access, as well as official information marked "restricted distribution";
8-1) the blog platform of the first heads of quasi-public sector entities, with the exception of persons with one hundred percent state participation, is a state–owned digital resource that provides citizens with the opportunity to send requests and receive answers from the first heads of quasi-public sector entities.;
9) excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 12/30/2020 No. 394-VI (effective ten calendar days after the date of its first official publication);
10) the unified platform of Internet resources of government agencies is a technological platform designed to host Internet resources of government agencies;
11) the Internet portal for evaluating the effectiveness of government agencies is a state digital resource that provides information on evaluating the activities of government agencies, reports on achieving target indicators of government development plans and plans for the development of the capital, region, city of republican significance" developed in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as public discussion of the activities of government agencies;
11-1) excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 12/30/2022 No. 177-VII (effective ten calendar days after the date of its first official publication);
12) request – a request in oral or written form, including in the form of an electronic document, for the provision of information, voiced or sent to the information holder in accordance with the procedure established by this Law.
The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated November 16, 2015 No. 401-V SAM.
The article was amended and supplemented by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated June 24, 2026, No. 326-VIII SAM
This Law regulates public relations that arise as a result of the exercise of the constitutional right of everyone to freely receive and disseminate information in any way not prohibited by law.
President
Republic of Kazakhstan
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