3.1 General restrictions and duties

Pursuant to the Kyrgyz anticorruption laws and regulations the Officials, Government Officials, Municipal Officials and Heads of State Organisations are prohibited from receiving, from individuals and legal entities, rewards or compensations in a form of gifts, money, services, actions or inaction incidental to the performance of their official duties.

In addition to above, the Government Officials and Municipal Officials are prohibited from:

• engaging in commercial activity, other than pedagogical (educational), scientific and other creative activities;
• engaging in entrepreneurial activity, as well as using their official status to derive benefit or to support third parties’ activity with a view to receive any form of compensation;
• unlawfully interfering with the operation of other state bodies and legal entities;
• unlawfully favouring certain individuals and legal entities while adopting decisions for their own private gain or interest; or violating the manner of reviewing and adopting decisions with regard to appeals of individuals and legal entities;
• unreasonably refusing to provide information to individuals and legal entities or providing such information in an untimely and/or inadequate manner, as well as unlawfully requesting from such persons information not required by Kyrgyz Laws;
• transferring governmental and municipal financial and other resources to campaign funds of candidates and public organisations; as well as unlawfully transferring such resources to individuals and legal entities;
• impeding access for individuals and legal entities to exercise their rights and interests; and
• affecting the procurement procedures in the interest of any parties to such procurement.

3.2 Gifts and other benefits 

Pursuant to the anticorruption Law the Officials, Government Officials, Municipal Officials and Heads of State Organisations are prohibited from accepting

• any gifts¹, money, or services paid by third parties incidental to performance of their official duties, except for token gifts, symbolic souvenirs presented following the commonly accepted rules of courtesy or during protocol or other official events;
• travel invitations for holiday trips, health or any other purposes within the Kyrgyz Republic and abroad from any legal entities and individuals, except if such travel invitations are made:
  • upon invitation of close relatives at their own expense;
  • upon invitation of other individuals, if the relationships therewith do not involve the official duty activities of the invited persons;
  • under international treaties of the Kyrgyz Republic or mutual agreement between Kyrgyz and foreign state authorities and/or international organisations;
  • with the consent of the superior official or collective management body in order to participate in international scientific, sport, creative, professional, or humanitarian events, or made in accordance with the charter activities of public associations upon invitation and at the expense of the counterparts.

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