The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources is a central executive body of the Government of Kazakhstan, providing leadership in the areas of formation and implementation of state policy, coordination of management processes in the areas of environmental protection, development of the green economy, waste management (excluding municipal, medical and radioactive waste), protection, control and supervision the rational use of natural resources, the state geological study of the subsoil, the reproduction of the mineral resource base, the use and protection of the water funding , in water supplies, sanitation, forestry, protection, reproduction and use of wildlife and the specially protected areas.

3655 “On Measures to Further Improve the Efficiency of Public Administration in the Republic of Kazakhstan”, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources was established with the transfer of functions, powers to manage the property and affairs of the abolished Ministry of Ecology and Bioresources to it, as well as parts of the functions, powers to manage property and affairs of the abolished Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources.

6 “On the Structure of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan”, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection was established with the transfer of functions in the field of forestry, fishing and hunting, water resources, with the exception of land reclamation, irrigation and drainage.

As a result, part of the powers of the Ministry of Environmental Protection was transferred to local executive bodies.

In particular, powers were transferred to conduct a state environmental review for a number of business entities.