Recent Significant Amendments To Antimonopoly Legislation In Kazakhstan

In the beginning of June, the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on improvement of the entrepreneurial activity"¹ (the Law) entered into force.

The most crucial and significant amendments introduced by the Law to the competition protection legislation, in  particular, to the provisions of the Entrepreneurial Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan² (the Code) are presented below.

1. Competition protection requirements while organizing and conducting procurement of goods and bidding (tender)
   
   Although the competence of the antimonopoly body included preventing market participants from anticompetitive agreements, the antimonopoly body did not actively advocate and investigate competition issues in the course of conducting tenders. A new provision on the protection of competition during the organization of procurement of goods and bidding has been added to the Code,  and new terms such as