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25.1. The Commissioners shall exercise the following powers during the course of inquiry
into complaints:
25.1.1. To take explanations from the Complainant and relevant citizen, organization, official,
legal entity, and its administration;
25.1.2. To summon the Complainant and relevant citizens;
25.1.3. To have unrestricted access to any organization, object and legal entity and to
meet in person with the relevant officials;
25.1.4. To obtain without any charge the necessary evidence, official documents and
information from organizations, officials and/or legal entities, and to get acquainted with
them on the spot;
25.1.5. To appoint experts from the appropriate organizations in a case of necessity for
the specialized knowledge, and to get their expert-opinions;
25.1.6. To conduct alone an inquiry into the activities of business entities, organizations or
officials, or jointly on the basis of a proposal by the competent State authority and their
officials;
25.1.7. To access the confidential data/secrets of the State, organization or individual
person in accordance with procedure established by the relevant law.
Article 26. Powers of Commissioners in respect of decision-making on complaints and
information
26.1. The Commissioners shall exercise the following powers with respect to
making a decision on complaints:
26.1.1. To demand or recommend organizations or officials to stop activities which violate
human rights and freedoms, or which create conditions for such violations;
26.1.2. To submit claims to the courts with regard to issues of violations of human rights
and freedoms by business entities, organizations, officials or individual persons to
participate in person or through a representative in judicial proceedings in accordance with
procedure established by the law;
26.1.3. To put forward requests to the competent authorities or officials with regard to
imposing relevant sanctions on officials who, as he/she considers, have violated human
rights and freedoms as provided in Article 26.1.2 of this Law;
26.1.4. To decide the issues by way of conciliation of the parties;
26.1.5. To transfer to relevant organization and official, if complaint and information are
having elements of crimes or petty offences;
26.1.6. To transfer the complaint and information to competent organization, official and legal
enitited mandated to resolve violations and demand the implementation of it;
26.1.7. To inform the State General Prosecutor about issue regarding possible torture case of
official to suspend from his/her position.
26.2. Commissioners shall keep in good faith the confidential data/secrets of the State,
organization or individual person, which he/she came to know about during the course of
conducting the official business or which has been informed to him/her in trust.
26.3. Commissioners shall have an obligation to inform the Complainant with regard to
results of his/her complaint examination activities.
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