Strategy Kazakhstan 2050 Presidential Address by Nursultan Nazarbayev, December 14, 2012

1. New system of interaction between state apparatus and business
community
State apparatus should develop a new system of interaction with the
business society
We should not intervene in business and “lead everyone by their hands”.
We should provide businesses with confidence in the future. Entrepreneurs
should reckon their abilities and know that the State will not cheat but will
protect. All that is requested from entrepreneurs is a fair work.
I assume that we have to, firstly, to guarantee de-facto immutability of the
private property rights. Secondly, it’s necessary to guarantee the contracted
liabilities protection.
The liability of the State is to provide the citizens with maximal opportunities
to implement their business activities. This means caring about creating the
infrastructure for the homeland business.
(1)For these aims it is necessary in 2013 to start the next stage of
modernization of the national legal system.
The legislation should not only protect national interests, but synchronize
with the developing international legal environment. I task the Government
to adopt systemic measures to increase the competitiveness of our legal
system in all its basic sectors of as the public, as the private rights.
(2)I task the Government jointly with my Administration in 2013:

2. · To start reforming the Criminal as well as Criminal Proceeding
legislation. An emphasis should be made on further humanization,
including decriminalization of economic infringements;
· To prepare and submit to the Parliament drafts of 4 new Codes:
Criminal Proceedings, Criminal Executive and Administrative
Infringements Code. Adopting these key legislative acts will
conceptually modernize the criminal legal proceedings system and
above all – the criminal policy of the State, it will raise our rights to a
level, allowing to adequately react to the modern challenges.