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06.01.2020

Experts of Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Zhambyl region helped businessmen to save over KZT 742 mn

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In 2019, the Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Zhambyl Oblast received 272 applications from business entities for business protection, 52 of which were resolved positively.

"One of the key tasks of the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs is to create favourable legal conditions for the implementation of the entrepreneurial initiative. Throughout its existence, we represent, ensure and protect the rights and legitimate interests of business, take an active part in the process of improving legislation, experts of the Chamber represent the interests of entrepreneurs in court and all representation services are free for business. Over the past period, representatives of the Chamber have participated in 27 court proceedings, 16 cases of them were decided in favour of entrepreneurs. The legal block of the Chamber tries to resolve issues without bringing such cases to court, we act as an arbitrator. Last year, the Chamber of Entrepreneurs received 272 applications, 52 of them were resolved positively. The amount of protected property rights is 742 million tenge," Irina Kim, Deputy Director for Legal Affairs of the Chamber of Entrepreneurs of the Zhambyl region, said.

The businessmen complaints about issues related to land relations, complaints about the actions of government agencies, public procurement, and tax issues.

One of the most effective tools to protect the business is the Council for the Protection of Entrepreneurs' Rights and Combating Corruption of the Chamber of Entrepreneurs of the Zhambyl region. The Council was created to quickly and systematically address the issues of representation, provision, and protection of rights and legitimate interests of business entities, as well as public coverage of problematic issues of business development in the Zhambyl region. Last year, 8 meetings of the Council were held, which considered 12 problematic issues such as the legality of the competition for grant financing under the Unified Program of Business Support and Development of the Business Roadmap 2020, unjustified refusal to apply for the Qoldau investment subsidy, demolition of buildings and structures located on the red line in Taraz, consideration, and discussion of issues on the theft of livestock and property, consideration and discussion of the actions of law enforcement officials.

 

The Council raised six issues and all of them were resolved positively. Each issue had the issue of free business activity, the order of financing for bringing the missing infrastructure to the entrepreneur's facility and the order of approval of the consolidated application for the supply of liquefied petroleum gas for their feasibility, taking into account the needs of the region, as well as the mechanism for determining the volume of LPG for gas network organizations.

For example, at the request of Mr. Segizbaev by the decision of the Council for the Protection of Entrepreneurs' Rights to the Department of Entrepreneurship and Industrial and Innovative Development of the Akimat of Zhambyl region sent a recommendation to consider projects of entrepreneurs with the conditions of free transfer of land by the business entity to the communal ownership on which the infrastructure object will be located. The application of Segizbayev on the electric line and transformer substation installation is decided positively.

One of the examples is the application of Beiseubayev Zh IE to the Chamber of Entrepreneurs of the Zhambyl region, where the Department of Architecture and Urban Development of Taraz Akimat requires the entrepreneur to demolish unauthorized construction with violation of the established "red line" extension of the Alcotson shopping space snack. Within the framework of this appeal, the Chamber prepared a draft objection to the claims and presented and protected the interests of the entrepreneur in the amount of 77 million tenge. During 2018-2019, the Zhambyl Chamber identified 26 systemic problems of business, including 17 problems that were identified at the national level.

"Obtaining or acquiring land plots for commercial purposes is one of the most important problems of entrepreneurs. On May 14, 2019, the Chamber of Entrepreneurs of the Zhambyl region initiated the provision of land plots through electronic bidding through the existing web-portal of the State Property Register by the Information and Accounting Center JSC, which was fully supported by the regional government. And for the first time on December 18, 2019, the electronic auctions were held in Taraz, where 5 land plots with an area of 0.4351 hectares were put up" the speaker said.

Also, the Chamber of Entrepreneurs is working on Roadmaps for prisoners with the Regional Court, Regional Prosecutor's Office and Department of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Public Service Affairs in Zhambyl region. For the purpose of effective and timely implementation of the action plan, the issues of the Road Map implementation are discussed at the Chamber's platform with the participation of the responsible executors. Within the framework of bilateral Agreements, monitoring of judicial practice, analysis of legislation and development of proposals for changes in legislation is conducted on a permanent basis, the development of effective mechanisms for protection of rights of entrepreneurs and business development is conducted, as well as detection and suppression of anti-competitive actions (inactions) of officials of state and local executive bodies.

One of the instruments of participation of the Chamber of Entrepreneurs of the Zhambyl region in the improvement of the legislation is the issuance of expert opinions on the concept of draft laws and drafts of all regulatory acts affecting the interests of entrepreneurship. In 2019, the entrepreneurs sent 157 projects of the legal acts for the expert opinion.

«...Domestic business, the so-called national bourgeoisie, should be supported in every possible way, and those who prevent its development by unreasonable inspections, extortions, raids should be strictly punished...»

Statement from the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev at an enlarged meeting of the Government on 15 July 2019

Zhursunov R.M.

Ombudsman for the Protection of the rights of Entrepreneurs of RK

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