Organizational Legal Forms for Social Entrepreneurship in the Republic of Kazakhstan

This article includes an analyzes of first steps taken in Kazakhstan to create a legal and organizational framework for social entrepreneurship. The expediency to distinguish a specific type of legal entities (along with commercial and non-commercial legal entities) in the Civil Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as to regulate special organizational and legal forms for conducting social entrepreneurship is substantiated. The absence (at least in most cases) of traditionally understood financial investment relations in the establishment and financing of the activities of social entrepreneurship entities (and Social Economy as a whole) is stressed out. The need for the State to declare (as its political task) its focus on the formation of Social and Solidarity economy in Kazakhstan as a special sector of the national economy, including with the obligatory development of constitutional foundations to ensure the common good, recognition and observance of public interest, is emphasized. The objective need to create an eff ective system of social finance to support and develop Social Economy in Kazakhstan is substantiated.fsk2906@mail.ruCaspian University, Republic of KazakhstanDaniela D. (2018), Social economy: Conceptualisation and analysis of an emergent hybrid reality, www.academia.edu, access as of 27 October 2021.Borzaga C., Galera G. (2016), Social Enterprises and their eco-systems: developments in Europe, European Commission, Directorate-General for Employment, Social Aff airs and Inclusion.Fonteneau B., Neamtan N., Wanyama F., Morais L.P., de Poorter M., Borzaga C., Galera G. Fox T. (2011), Social and Solidarity Economy: our common road towards decent work, International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization 2011, THE READER 2011, Second edition 2011, www.ilo.org, access as of 27 October 2021.Glänzel, G., Schmitz, B., Mildenberger, G. (2012), Report on Social Finance Investment Instruments, Markets and Cultures in the EU. A deliverable of the project: “The theoretical, empirical and policy foundations for building social innovation in Europe” (TEPSIE), European Commission – 7thFramework Programme, Brussels: European Commission, DG Research.Ineza, A. (2021), Review of case of social entrepreneurship: EcoPost for a Green and Prosperous Society. Academia Letters, Article 1874. www.doi.org/10.20935/AL1874, access as of 27 October 2021.SESBA project partnership (2016), Social Enterprise Skills for Business Advisers. Research Report about the status and reinforcement of social entrepreneurship in Europe, SESBA project partnership 2016, www.academia.edu, access as of 27 October 2021.The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan of 24 June 2021 No. 52–VII “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Matters of Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship and Mandatory Social Medical Insurance”), www.online.zakon.kz/Document/?-doc_id=33046086#pos=43;-55, access as of 27 October 2021.The Entrepreneurial Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan of 29 October 2015, as amended, www.online.zakon.kz/Document/?doc_id=38259854#pos=491;-18, access as of 27 October 2021.The Civil Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan (General Part) of 27 December 1994, as amended, www.online.zakon.kz/Document/?doc_id=1006061#pos=604;-32, access as of 27 October 2021.European Commission, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (2021): Social enterprises, Official web-site of the European Union, www.ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/social-economy/enterprises_en, access as of 27 October 2021.A Draft of the Rules of maintaining of the register of subjects of social entrepreneurs [in the Republic of Kazakhstan], www.legalacts.egov.kz/npa/view?id=9966785, access as of 27 October 2021.Kak planiruyut borot’sya s sotsizhdivenchestvom v Kazakhstane, www.zakon.kz, access as of 27 October 2021.556