On August 6, 2019, President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sooronbai Jeenbekov signed the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic “On Amending Certain Legislative Acts on Land Use Issues”.

The law was adopted by the Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic on June 20, 2019.

The purpose of this Law is to solve the existing problems related to the procedure for obtaining land for the placement of communication facilities and its simplification.

In the telecommunications industry, among other problems, there is an uneven development of the telecommunications infrastructure of the regions of the country, which directly affects the weak penetration of the Internet and the information inequality of the regions.

The Government of the Kyrgyz Republic, in accordance with the Trust and Unity Program, approved by the Resolution of the Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic dated November 9, 2016 No. 1053-VI, and set the task to cover 85 percent of the republic’s territory with high-speed Internet.

Meanwhile, there are specific barriers to the development of telecommunications infrastructure that make it impossible to implement socially significant tasks facing the communications industry to provide the population in the regions with communications. It is the norms and provisions of the prohibitive and limiting nature established by the Land Code of the Kyrgyz Republic, the Water Code of the Kyrgyz Republic, and the Forest Code of the Kyrgyz Republic, Law of the Kyrgyz Republic “On Pastures”, Law of the Kyrgyz Republic “On Transfer (Transformation) of Land Plots”, Law of the Kyrgyz Republic “On Specially Protected Natural Areas”, Law of the Kyrgyz Republic “On Electricity” and postal services."

In this connection, the relevant changes were made to the above legislative acts of the Kyrgyz Republic.

At the same time, this Law is supplemented with the term “communication construction” for the purpose of uniform application in the concepts of the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic “On Electric and Postal Communication”.

The law shall enter into force after fifteen days from the date of official publication.

Link: http://president.kg/ru/sobytiya/14719_vneseni_izmeneniya_vnekotorie_zakonodatelnie_akti_povoprosam_zemlepolzovaniya

Amendments to the Law “On Accumulative Pension Funds in the Kyrgyz Republic” made

On August 6, 2019, President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sooronbai Jeenbekov signed the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic “On Amending the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic “On Accumulative Pension Funds in the Kyrgyz Republic”.

The law was adopted by the Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic on June 26, 2019.

The purpose of this Law is to develop the market of accumulative pension funds by improving the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic in the field of accumulative pension funds.

The Law provides:

- Creation of new accumulative pension funds in the form of joint-stock companies;

- Introduction of open, corporate and professional pension funds in the Kyrgyz Republic.

An open pension fund is an accumulative pension fund whose participants can be any individuals, regardless of the place and nature of their work.

Corporate accumulative pension funds are created for recipients - employees of one or more legal entities that are founders and shareholders of this accumulative pension fund.

Professional pension fund is an accumulative pension fund, the founder (founders) of which may be associations of legal entities-employers, associations of individuals, including trade unions. Participants in such a fund may be solely individuals who are related by the nature of their professional activity (occupation) as defined in the charter of the fund.

The activities of accumulative pension funds have an important role to play in shaping the non-banking financial market.

In the Kyrgyz Republic, the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic “On Accumulative Pension Funds in the Kyrgyz Republic” is in force. The accumulative pension fund is created with the aim that in the future the funds that will go to it would bring investment income to the workers.

The basic principle of reforming the institution of the funded component of the pension system is to increase its effectiveness in order to improve the pension provision of citizens through the formation and investment of pension savings.

The law shall enter into force after fifteen days from the date of official publication.

Link: http://www.president.kg/ru/sobytiya/novosti/14721_vneseni_izmeneniya_v_zakon_o_nakopitelnih_pensionnih_fondah_v_kirgizskoy_respublike

The Law “On recognition as invalid the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic “On the Fifth Channel Closed Joint-Stock Company” adopted

On August 7, 2019, President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sooronbai Jeenbekov signed the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic “On recognition as invalid the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic “On the Fifth Channel Closed Joint-Stock Company”.

The law was adopted by the Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic on June 26, 2019.

The law abolished the status of the Fifth Channel as parliamentary television channel.

Link: http://www.president.kg/ru/sobytiya/novosti/14717_podpisan_zakon_opriznanii_utrativshim_silu_zakona_kirgizskoy_respubliki_ozakritom_akcionernom_obshestve_pyatiy_kanal

Amendments to some legislative acts of the Kyrgyz Republic made

On August 7, President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sooronbai Jeenbekov signed the Law “On Amending Certain Legislative Acts of the Kyrgyz Republic (the Laws of the Kyrgyz Republic “On Pledge”, “On the Licensing and Permitting System in the Kyrgyz Republic”).

The law was adopted by the Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic on June 12, 2019.

The purpose of the Law is the formation of a legislative framework for the creation and operation of housing and savings credit companies.

The law shall enter into force 15 days after the date of its official publication.

Link: http://www.president.kg/ru/sobytiya/14725_vneseni_izmeneniya_vnekotorie_zakonodatelnie_akti_kirgizskoy_respubliki

Amendments to the Law "On the Basics of Technical Regulation in the Kyrgyz Republic" made

On August 7, President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sooronbai Jeenbekov signed the Law “On Amending the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic “On the Basics of Technical Regulation in the Kyrgyz Republic”.

The law was adopted by the Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic on June 19, 2019.

In order to improve the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic on technical regulation and bring its standards in line with the regulatory framework of the Eurasian Economic Union in the field of technical regulation, the adopted Law makes some amendments and additions to the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic dated May 22, 2004 No. 67 “On the basis of technical regulation in Kyrgyz Republic.”

The law takes effect after 6 months from the date of official publication.

Link: http://www.president.kg/ru/sobytiya/14723_vneseni_izmeneniya_vzakon_obosnovah_tehnicheskogo_regulirovaniya_vkirgizskoy_respublike

The draft Law of the Kyrgyz Republic “On acts of civil status” submitted for public discussion

Since August 9, 2019, the draft Law of the Kyrgyz Republic “On acts of civil status” has been submitted for public discussion. Parliament Deputy Iskhak Pirmatov is the bill’s initiator.

The bill was developed in order to optimize the registration of acts of civil status.

Due to the fact that the current Law of the Kyrgyz Republic “On acts of civil status” is excessively detailed, this draft law proposes the adoption of the Law in a new edition to provide a more conceptual presentation of its text. In addition, the bill provides for the adoption of rules for the registration of acts of civil status, which will be approved by the decision of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic.

The proposed draft Law proposes:

1. To simplify the registration of the birth of a child by registering the fact of the birth of a child by the civil registry authorities in cases of absence and untimely documentation of the parents (parent) by documents proving their identity.

2. Exclude two types of registration of acts of civil status: state registration of adoption and establishment of paternity.

3. Leave the right to change the surname and first name at the request of the citizen, while in part of the middle name a change of middle name is proposed for the names arising from the names of the father, adoptive parent and grandfather on the part of the father and mother.

4. Delete the second paper copy of the civil registry.

5. Record the name of the child, taking into account the desire of the parents, by the name of the father or grandfather of the child with the addition of the endings “ov”, “-ev”, “-ova”, “-eva” or according to Kyrgyz national traditions: “uulu” for male children and “kyzy” for female children or without it. In these cases, a middle name is not assigned.

6. Carry out registration of acts of civil status at the place of the citizen's appeal to the registry office.

Link: http://www.kenesh.kg/ru/article/show/5733/na-obshtestvennoe-obsuzhdenie-s-9-avgusta-2019-goda-vinositsya-proekt-zakona-kirgizskoy-respubliki-ob-aktah-grazhdanskogo-sostoyaniya