1. Main tasks of civil protection are:
1) prevention and liquidation of emergency situations and their consequences;
2) rescuing and evacuation of people upon occurrence of emergency situations by conduct
of accident rescue operations and urgent works in peace and war time;
3) creation of civil protection forces, their preparation and maintenance in instant
readiness;
4) training of specialists of central and local executive bodies, state bodies directly
subordinate and accountable to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, organizations
and training of the population;
5) accumulation and keeping of the required fund of protective structures, stocks of means
of individual protection and other property of civil defence in readiness;
6) informing and notifying of population, managing bodies of civil protection in advance
in existence of forecasting on threat of occurrence of emergency situation and (or) on an
operational basis upon occurrence of emergency situation;
7) protection of food-stuffs, water sources (water supply intake places for economic and
drinking purposes), food raw materials, forage, animals and plants from radioactive, chemical
, bacteriological (biological) contamination, epizootic and epiphytotics;
8) ensuring industrial, fire and seismic safety;
9) creation, development and maintenance of the notification and communication systems
in instant readiness;
10) monitoring, development and implementation of measures on reduction of effect or
liquidation of hazard factors of modern means of destruction;
11) ensuring of formation, storage and use of the state reserve.
2. Main principles of civil protection are:
1) organization of the civil protection system on territorial and sectoral principle;
2) minimization of threats and damage to citizens and society from emergency situations;
3) instant readiness of forces and means of civil protection to dynamic response on
emergency situations, civil defence and conduct of accident rescue operations and urgent
works;
4) publicity and informing of population and organizations on forecasting and occurred
emergency situations, taken measures on their prevention and liquidation including
liquidation of their consequences;
5) justified risk and safety ensuring upon conduct of accident rescue operations and urgent
works.
Footnote. Article 3 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated
24.06.2025 № 196-VIII (shall enter into force ten calendar days after the day of its first
official publication).

1. Commissions on prevention and liquidation of emergency situations are consultative
and advisory bodies in the state system of civil protection and are created to develop
proposals on formation and implementation of the state policy in the field of civil protection.
Commissions on prevention and liquidation of emergency situations are created at
republican and territorial levels of the state system of civil protection.
2. An interdepartmental state commission on prevention and liquidation of emergency
situations is created at republican level by the decision of the authorized body.
3. Interdepartmental state commission on prevention and liquidation of emergency
situations exercises its powers in cooperation with state bodies directly subordinate and
accountable to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, central and local executive bodies
, organizations, public associations.
4. The main task of interdepartmental state commission on prevention and liquidation of
emergency situations is the development of proposals for:
1) main directions of development and further improvement of civil protection;
2) the formation of a system of legal, economic, organizational, technical and other
measures in the field of civil protection;
3) creation and development of civil protection forces and means;
4) coordination of activities of state bodies directly subordinate and accountable to the
President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, central and local executive bodies on the issues of
prevention and liquidation of emergency situations, socio-economic and legal protection,
medical rehabilitation of citizens injured by accidents, catastrophes, natural and other
disasters, as well as persons who participated in emergency liquidation and their
consequences.
5. The Interdepartmental state commission for the prevention and liquidation of
emergency situations has the right:
1) to make proposals on coordination of actions of state bodies directly subordinate and
accountable to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, central and local executive bodies
, organizations, public associations in the field of civil protection;
2) to hear the heads and officials of state bodies directly subordinate and accountable to
the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, central and local executive bodies, organizations
on issues related to civil protection measures, including civil protection;
3) to ask information from state bodies directly subordinate and accountable to the
President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, central and local executive bodies, organizations on
their activities, required for its work;
4) to conduct an analysis of the implementation of civil protection measures, including
civil defense, by state bodies directly subordinate and accountable to the President of the
Republic of Kazakhstan, central and local executive bodies;
5) to attract specialists of organizations (in agreement with their heads) for the
performance of analytical, expert and other work son civil protection issues;
6) to submit proposals to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the
allocation of funds from the reserve of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan for life
support of the population upon the liquidation of emergency situations of natural and
technogenic character on the basis of approved norms.
6. Commissions for the prevention and liquidation of emergency situations are created at
territorial level by the decisions of local executive bodies which carry out their activities in
accordance with the powers and tasks determined by decisions on their creation.
The heads of local executive bodies are the chairpersons of commissions for the
prevention and elimination of emergencies, and the deputy chairpersons of commissions for
the prevention and elimination of emergencies are the heads of territorial bodies of the
authorized body.
Footnote. Article 7 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated
29.09.2014 № 239-V (shall be enforced upon expiry of ten calendar days after the day its first
official publication); dated 24.06.2025 № 196-VIII (shall enter into force ten calendar days
after the day of its first official publication).

1. Republican, oblast, city, district services of civil protection shall be created for ensuring
of performing the special measures of civil protection and training of forces and means for
these purposes.
2. The list of republican services of civil protection shall be approved by the Government
of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
3. Services of civil protection of territorial subsystem of civil protection shall be created
by decisions of akims of the relevant administrative-territorial entities.
4. For the purpose of organizing the implementation of evacuation measures, evacuation
bodies shall be established within central and local executive bodies, state bodies directly
subordinate and accountable to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (with the
exception of special state bodies), and organizations classified under civil defense categories.
Footnote. Article 8 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated
24.06.2025 № 196-VIII (shall enter into force ten calendar days after the day of its first
official publication).