The Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, by order of April 25, 2025, made changes to the rules for issuing environmental permits, submitting declarations on environmental impact, as well as to the forms of environmental permit forms, writes zakon.kz. The regulation clarifies that the re-registration of the environmental permit for impact for objects of category II is carried out in cases where the name has changed, the organizational and legal form has changed, the operator of the object, which has been granted environmental permission for impact for objects of category II, has been reorganized or changed. During the re-registration of the environmental permit for impact for objects of the II category, the service recipients apply for the re-registration of the environmental permit for the impact of the II category, attaching the documents according to the list to the service provider through the portal. It is also stipulated that during the period of application of the environmental permit to impact with the amendments, the operator shall annually submit a report on the implementation of the action plan for environmental protection to the state body that issued such a permit in the prescribed form by the first day of the second month following the reporting period. In addition, the rules have updated the grounds for refusing to provide public services for the issuance of a complex environmental permit: determining the lack of clarity of the documents and (or) the information contained in them provided by the recipient of the service for obtaining a complex environmental permit; non-compliance of the documents and (or) the information contained in them with the requirements of the environmental legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan and (or) the conclusion on the results of the environmental impact assessment or the conclusion on the results of the screening of the effects of the intended activity, which includes the conclusion that there is no need to conduct a mandatory environmental impact assessment; failure of the recipient of the service to agree with the conditions of the comprehensive environmental permit determined by the authorized body in the field of environmental protection in accordance with the procedure provided for in Article 115 of the Code; In accordance with Article 8 of the Law "On Personal Data and Their Protection", the recipient of the service does not have the proposed consent to access personal data with limited access required for the provision of public services. Grounds for refusal to issue an environmental permit for impact on objects of categories I and II are: if the information contained in the application and (or) documents attached to it is not clear; if the application and (or) documents attached to it do not meet the requirements of the environmental legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan and (or) the conclusion on the results of the environmental impact assessment or the conclusion on the results of the screening of the effects of the intended activity, which includes the conclusion that there is no need to conduct a mandatory environmental impact assessment; In accordance with Article 8 of the Law "On Personal Data and Their Protection", the recipient of the service does not have the proposed consent to access personal data with limited access required for the provision of public services. The order will be enforced from June 30, 2025.

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/aktobe-shalkar-bozoy/press/news/details/988366?lang=kk