Article 6-2. Competence of authorized bodies The Law on Access to Information

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1. Authorized body in the field of access to information:

1) on the basis of and in pursuance of the main directions of the internal and foreign policy of the state, defined by the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and the main directions of the socio-economic policy of the state, its defense capability, security, and public order, developed by the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, forms and implements the state policy in the field of access to information in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

2) carries out state control in the field of access to information;

3) provides practical and methodological assistance to information holders on access to information;

4) interacts with information holders and users on issues of access to information;

5) approves the unified list of public data of government agencies posted on the Internet portal of open data;

6) approves the rules for the information content of the Internet resources of government agencies and the requirements for their content;

7) submit annually, no later than June 1, to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, an annual report on the state of access to information in the Republic of Kazakhstan;

8) publishes on its Internet resource an annual report on the state of access to information in the Republic of Kazakhstan;

9) determines the amount of the actual cost of copying or printing and the procedure for paying them to the information holder, as well as the procedure for exempting socially vulnerable segments of the population from paying the actual cost of copying or printing;

10) develops and approves regulatory legal acts in the field of access to information in accordance with the purpose and objectives of this Law and the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

11) exercise other powers provided for by this Law, other laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan, acts of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

2. Authorized body in the field of informatization:

1) ensures the implementation of the state policy in the field of access to information regarding the creation, search, collection, accumulation, storage, processing, receipt, use, transformation, display, dissemination and provision of electronic information resources contained in informatization objects;

2) analyzes data, with the exception of information with limited access, contained in the objects of informatization of state bodies, with a view to their subsequent posting on the Internet portal of open data in accordance with the procedure determined by the authorized body in the field of informatization in coordination with the authorized body in the field of access to information;

3) excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated January 13, 2025 No. 157-VIII (effective sixty calendar days after the date of its first official publication).

4) exercise other powers provided for by this Law, other laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan, acts of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated November 16, 2015 No. 401-V SAM.

This Law regulates public relations resulting from the exercise of everyone's constitutional right to freely receive and disseminate information in any manner not prohibited by law.

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