Bolatbek Kuandykov appointed Chairman of Consumer Rights' Protection Agency

In the afternoon, Prime Minister Serik Akhmetov introduced the new head of the agency to the staff and set priority tasks to the agency, the web-site of the Prime Minister reports.

"The new agency is to deal with consumer protection and protection of domestic producers in general. Among the priorities are ensuring food safety, control of sanitary and epidemiological situation, technical regulations of goods and services.

In the shortest time it is necessary to develop proposals for improving the policies in the sphere of consumer protection," Akhmetov instructed.