Members of the working group ask to preserve the innovations included in the sixth version of the bill on media.
According to lawyer Tattybubu Ergeshbaeva, the document contains 10-12 main innovations.
«They are improving the media landscape. If the document is submitted for public discussion in this version, preserving the basic conceptual norms, then we will be able to defend it in parliament. Naturally, this bill has its own errors and gaps. This is not what the media sector ideally wanted to adopt. But there is a balance in the finalized bill,» she said.
On March 13, spokesman for the president Askat Alagozov announced that, on the instructions of the head of state, the bill on mass media, which was adopted in the first reading by a parliamentary committee, was withdrawn.
The bill developed by the presidential administration was submitted to the Parliament in early January. This is the fifth version of the document; it was finalized by members of the working group created by order of the head of state Sadyr Japarov in December 2022. However, the draft law was not finalized, agreed upon or approved by all members of the working group. There was no clause-by-clause discussion.
The working group on the new media law included five people from the presidential administration: the head of the Legal Support Department Murat Ukushev, a department expert, representatives of the Legal Department, the press service and the Ministry of Culture, as well as 15 media representatives.
