On 26 August 2022, the Constitutional Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan organised jointly with the Venice Commission an international roundtable entitled “Evolution of constitutional control in the context of societal and state transformation”, in the framework of the Central Asia Rule of Law Programme 2020-2023.
Discussions centred around constitutional reforms in Kazakhstan, announced by President Tokayev in March 2022, in particular the transformation of the Constitutional Council of Kazakhstan into a Constitutional Court.
The round table was convened simultaneously at KazGUU university in Nur-Sultan and at Narxoz university in Almaty, and was attended by the Presidents of the Constitutional Courts of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, as well as Venice Commission experts from Armenia, Croatia, Georgia, and Korea. Participants from different Kazakh institutions have joined the round table discussions: members of the Constitutional Council of Kazakhstan, representatives of state bodies, members of the Scientific Council under the Constitutional Council of Kazakhstan, representatives of non-governmental and international organisations and representatives of foreign constitutional review bodies.
Participants learned more about the role and functioning of the Constitutional Courts together with the models and regulations of the constitutional complaint considering the amendments to the Constitution adopted in 2022.
The Central Asia Rule of Law Programme 2020-2023 is co-funded by the Council of Europe and the European Union and implemented by the Council of Europe.
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