Kalikova & Associates provided expert assistance to members of Parliament in drafting the bill introducing amendments to a number of legal acts such as: the Tax Code, the Civil Code, the Law on State Tax Service, the Law on Protection of Entrepreneurs’ Rights, the Law on State Support of Small Enterprise, the Law on Social Fund of the Kyrgyz Republic, the Law on Accounting, the Law on State Registration of Legal Entities, Branches and Representative Offices, the Law on State Statistics, the Law on Joint Stock Companies, and the Law on Business Partnerships and Companies. The bill introduces simplified procedures for liquidation of legal entities by removing overlapping provisions, eliminating baseless and unnecessary barriers created by public authorities, reducing the period of review of documents by public authorities and lowering administrative pressure. The bill also proposes simplified and optimized procedures for registration of individual entrepreneurs by transferring the registration functions from statistics to tax authorities. The bill passed through first reading in Parliament on March 4, 2015.

Kalikova & Associates provided expert assistance to the Ministry of Economy of the Kyrgyz Republic in drafting the bill proposing amendments to the Labor Code and the law of the Kyrgyz Republic on assuring timely payment of salaries, pensions, allowances and other social benefits. The bill introduces maximum rates of interest on overdue salaries to balance the interests of employers and employees.

The bill passed through first reading in the Parliament on March 12, 2015.

Lawyers of Kalikova & Associates attended the two-day training on Effective technologies of legal marketing, held in Bishkek on 12th and 13th of March. The training was conducted by Iryna Khymchak, Head of Department of marketing and business development of Sayenko Kharenko Law Firm (Ukraine).

General trends in marketing of law firms of European market have been reviewed in the course of the training. Ms. Khymchak shared with practical experience as well as provided recommendations on the main directions of consulting business promotion– marketing, client relations management (CRM), development of relations with partner firms, business development and public relations (PR).

On February 20, 2015 at the meeting of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic, members of the Cabinet of Ministers approved the medium- and long- term mineral development strategy of the Kyrgyz Republic. During the meeting, Prime Minister Djoomart Otorbaev emphasized on the high quality of the drafted document.

On March 31 2014, the Kalikova & Associates teamed with a consortium of experts has completed work on drafting the Strategy administered by the Kyrgyz Mining Association that was commissioned by the Ministry of Economy of the Kyrgyz Republic and with the technical support of USAID reform. Lawyers of Kalikova & Associates have developed recommendations for improving Kyrgyz mining law, including the issues associated with mining licensing, state assessment of mining and geological projects, pretrial dispute resolution.