Al-Farabi KazNU Hosts International Conference on the Legal Regulation of the Circular Economy

On October 22, 2026, the Faculty of Law of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University hosted an international scientific and practical conference entitled «Legal Regulation of the Circular Economy: Legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Prospects for Its Improvement». The conference was organized by the Department of Customs, Financial and Environmental Law.

The conference was opened with welcoming remarks by E.E. Duisenov, Advisor to the Chairman of the Management Board of KazNU. The moderators were U.A. Akhatov, Dean of the Faculty of Law and Professor, and G.A. Kuanaliyeva, Doctor of Law, Professor, and Head of the Department of Customs, Financial and Environmental Law.

The conference brought together leading scholars from Kazakhstan and other countries, representatives of government bodies, public organizations, and the expert community.

Among the participants were I.I. Rogov, President of the Criminological Association of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Professor; Zh.Zh. Yermekova, Dean of the Higher School of Economics and Business at KazNU; E. Juchnevicius, Professor at the University of Gdańsk (Poland); Chen Qisheng, Associate Professor at Chang’an University (China); Mehmet Arslan (Türkiye); and B.A. Bekzhanov, Deputy Director of the Institute of Parliamentarism under the Administrative Department of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The conference also welcomed Alma Karash, Chair of the Almaty City Branch of the Kazakhstan Green Party “Baitaq”; Vladimir Aleksandrovich Martel, Secretary of the Kazakhstan Green Party “Baitaq”; and Temirlan Kairatuly Abdykulov, Deputy Chair of the Committee for Regulation, Protection and Use of Water Resources of the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The faculty members of the Department of Customs, Financial and Environmental Law also actively participated in the event.