In order to increase the efficiency and efficiency of decision-making in the state apparatus, to exclude excessive legislative regulation of the activities of the executive branch, to reduce document flow and reporting, to increase the independence and personal responsibility of the heads of state bodies, I DECIDE:
1. Determine the following principles of debureaucratization:
1) the priority of essence over form - the supremacy of a specific and measurable result over the form of work to achieve it;
2) digitalization by default - the priority of the comprehensive interaction of state bodies with citizens, businesses and among themselves in a digital format;
3) managerial responsibility - the inadmissibility of transferring decision-making and agreeing on issues within the competence of a particular manager to a higher level and collegial bodies;
4) continuous improvement - the formation and maintenance of the organizational culture of the state apparatus, stimulating the reduction of bureaucracy, system reengineering and optimization of internal procedures and processes;
5) the optimality of regulation - the establishment of the optimally necessary level of regulation of the activities of state bodies, preventing the introduction of new insufficiently substantiated bureaucratic requirements, types of reporting and control.
2. The Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan shall ensure that state bodies have the right to adopt regulatory legal acts in order to implement the assigned tasks without excessive (excessive) specification at the legislative level of competencies, functions and powers, as well as the introduction of a special procedure for the adoption of regulatory legal acts, including without their state registration, for prompt response to urgent challenges, force majeure and crisis situations.
3. Until December 1, 2022, the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, within the framework of the activities of the commission under the President on the implementation of digitalization in the Republic of Kazakhstan, ensure a comprehensive reengineering of the budgetary and rule-making processes with a general reduction in terms and stages by half.
4. Determine the authorized body in the field of informatization responsible for coordinating digital transformation and reengineering of business processes in central and local government bodies, as well as for making decisions on the integration of state informatization objects.
5. Within the framework of internal and interdepartmental interaction of state bodies, determine the need to use information posted in state informatization facilities of the relevant state bodies, without additional confirmation of the reliability, authenticity and relevance of information.
6. Place full responsibility for the accuracy and relevance of the information posted in state informatization facilities and for the costs associated with the use of false information on the heads of the relevant state bodies.
7. Until December 31, 2022, the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, together with state bodies directly subordinate and accountable to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, systematize all types of reports and indicators (industry data) on the basis of the state information and analytical system "Smart Data Ukimet" and other state objects of informatization .
8. To prohibit state bodies from requesting and transmitting information available in the state information and analytical system "Smart Data Ukimet" and at other state informatization facilities, as well as responding to such requests.
9. Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan within three months:
1) conduct a comprehensive reengineering of internal business processes, ensuring the revision of the relevant legal acts;
2) together with the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, conduct a complete audit of the current control instructions of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the leadership of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan for their duplication and relevance;
3) ensure the exclusion of the requirement to submit draft acts of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan on paper, their endorsement and sheet initialing, with the exception of documents that are classified and marked "for official use".
10. To the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan:
1) within two months:
conduct a complete audit of the current control instructions of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan, deputies of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the leadership of the Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan for their duplication and relevance;
ensure a halving of the number of consultative and advisory bodies under the Government, central and local executive bodies;
review approaches to the formation of a register of public services, including in it the most demanded by citizens and business life and business situations, ensuring their reengineering and automation;
ensure the possibility of using available online services for holding open meetings for the purpose of communication with citizens and operational interdepartmental interaction;
revise the Regulations of the Government and other normative legal acts, including by ensuring:
the abolition of the submission of documents in paper form, their endorsement and sheet initialing, with the exception of legislative acts, acts of the President, as well as documents classified as classified and marked "for official use";
introduction of the procedure for “approval by default” of draft normative legal acts, Government opinions on the amendments of the deputies of the Parliament and bills initiated by them and other documents requiring approval, if the answer on them is not provided within the prescribed period;
lifting the ban on submitting draft normative legal acts with comments to the Office of the Prime Minister;
the obligation to consider disagreements between state bodies when agreeing on draft regulatory legal acts and making specific decisions on the merits of the issue at the level of the Prime Minister or his deputies within five working days;
introduction of a ban on the submission to the Presidential Administration of documents on current issues of activity that fall within the exclusive competence of the Government and other state bodies, as well as proposals from state bodies that require a substantive resolution of the issue, without prior study with the interested state bodies;
introduction of a ban on requests and instructions with a deadline
less than two working days, except for direct instructions from the President, the Prime Minister, the Secretary of State, the Chief of the Presidential Administration and the Secretary of the Security Council;
reducing the time for consideration of documents in the Office of the Prime Minister by half;
introduction of a ban on sending draft acts and minutes of meetings, requests and instructions to state bodies whose competence does not directly include their consideration, with the possibility of returning such documents without consideration;
the possibility of delegation by the first heads of state bodies to individual heads of structural divisions of state bodies of the right to sign documents of an organizational and technical nature, as well as participation and expression of the position of a state body in interdepartmental meetings;
empowering the supervising deputies of the first heads of state bodies with the right to approve draft regulatory legal acts by decision of the first heads;
exclusion of the requirement for re-signing by the first head of the state body and submission to the Office of the Prime Minister of correspondence previously entered with the signature of the acting first head of the state body;
introduction of a ban on re-approval of a draft regulatory legal act in connection with the appointment of a new first head of the central state body;
use of official e-mail as an official means of communication and information exchange for central and local executive bodies, with the exception of correspondence with legislative and judicial branches of government, the Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as documents related to the National Archival Fund;
reducing the term for signing minutes of meetings of the Government and consultative and advisory bodies under the Government, as well as meetings led by Deputy Prime Ministers and the leadership of the Office of the Prime Minister to three days, eliminating the need for their coordination with the participating state bodies;
2) until December 31, 2022:
provide a simplified mechanism for correcting information about citizens and legal entities contained in state informatization objects;
ensure a three-fold reduction in budget expenditures on stationery and related products;
optimize the list of standard documents generated in the activities of state and non-state organizations, indicating the storage period;
ensure the reduction of the period of creation and (or) development of state objects of informatization to six months;
take measures to clearly regulate the grounds for scheduling and holding meetings, ensuring, among other things, the introduction of a single digital solution for planning and systematizing meetings for all state bodies and organizations, as well as the priority of holding meetings via video conferencing and available online services;
ensure the automation of the procedure for sending a notification about the placement of draft regulatory legal acts on the Internet portal "Open NLA" to the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, accredited associations of private businesses, public councils;
abolish the institution of memorandums of central and local executive state bodies with the Presidential Administration and the Government, using the decomposed indicators enshrined in the Strategic Indicators Map of the National Development Plan of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as the practice of concluding memorandums between the Prime Minister and the President, as indicators of the effectiveness of their work;
to provide political employees of central state bodies and administrative employees of corps "A" with devices for remote work with state informatization objects;
3) until December 31, 2023:
together with the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Civil Service Affairs, ensure the full digitalization of the process of selection and admission to the civil service on the basis of the information system "E-kyzmet", as well as its implementation and scaling in all state bodies;
ensure the transition of the state apparatus to a single centralized cloud-based workflow with digital solutions to optimize the passage of official correspondence with the ability to work together on one draft document, eliminate duplication of instructions, and promptly generate analytical reports on workflow;
ensure the translation of documents marked “for official use” into electronic format;
ensure the introduction into commercial operation of the module of the legislative process of the information system "E-Zanama";
ensure the introduction of a unified accounting information system for central government bodies;
4) during the calendar year, ensure the institutionalization of the "E-Otinish" system as a "one stop shop" for receiving all types of applications from individuals and legal entities.
11. The Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for civil service affairs together with the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan:
1) ensure an annual competition among civil servants for the best project to improve the activities of the state apparatus;
2) ensure an annual survey on debureaucratization as part of the procedures for monitoring the state of the civil service and public monitoring of the quality of public services.
12. The Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan to ensure the launch of a permanent online resource for collecting proposals for debureaucratization and improving the efficiency of state bodies.
The Agencies of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Strategic Planning and Reforms and for Civil Service Affairs, together with the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan, on a regular basis, analyze proposals received on the online resource.
13. The Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan to revise legislative acts for excessive (excessive) legislative regulation of norms, which, for the sake of efficiency, should be determined by the Government or state bodies in by-laws.
14. The Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Civil Service Affairs to ensure monitoring and analysis on the issues of debureaucratization of the state apparatus, including the study of internal administrative procedures of state bodies, as well as submitting their results on a semi-annual basis to the Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
15. The Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan within ten working days to ensure the approval of the action plan for the implementation of this Decree.
16. The Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan to take other measures arising from this Decree.
17. To impose control over the execution of this Decree on the Administration of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
18. This Decree shall enter into force from the date of its signing.