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 an object of informatization 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 – data presented in machine-readable form and intended for further use, re-publication in unchanged form;

     6) the Internet portal of open data is an object of informatization that provides centralized storage of descriptive and reference information on open data;

     6-1) the Internet portal of open dialogue is an object of informatization 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 normative legal acts is an object of informatization that ensures the posting of draft normative legal acts and other information in accordance with this Law for public discussion, with the exception of information with limited access.;

7-1) socially significant information – information of public interest, established by Article 6 of this Law;

     8) restricted access information – information classified as state secrets, personal, family, banking, commercial secrets, secrets of a medical professional 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 an object of informatization 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 an object of informatization that provides information on evaluating the activities of government agencies, reports on achieving target indicators of government development plans and development plans for the region, the city of republican significance, the capital, 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.

     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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