"The report assesses the enforcement of the Republic of Kazakhstan's law on access to information with a focus on the … practices of the Kazakhstan Commission on Access to Information. It benchmarks the Commission's mandate and functions against … those of similar access-to-information oversight bodies in OECD countries. The report compares the legal nature and the …

focus on five key elements: i) information gathering process, ii) exchange of information, iii) confidentiality of the … information received; iv) statistics on the exchanges of rulings; and v) transparency on certain aspect of intellectual property …