One of the important features of the rule of law, the construction of which is proclaimed by the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan, is the exercise of judicial control over the preliminary investigation. Most of the member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) adhere to this vector of development of criminal procedure legislation. Currently, international standards and principles governing the protection, protection, restoration of human rights and freedoms accumulate the most progressive, successfully tested legal concepts, which were the natural result of the tendency to strengthen guarantees of the rights of participants in criminal proceedings. The article is devoted to the problems of legal regulation of judicial control at the stage of preliminary investigation related to compliance with international standards. A selective analysis of the implementation of judicial control in foreign countries, in particular in the countries of continental Europe (France, Germany, Italy, England, Spain), identified similarities and differences from a similar system in the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as put forward proposals to improve criminal procedure legislation in this direction. The author, examining the control powers of the court at the international level, tried to determine the importance of international standards and principles in ensuring the rights and legitimate interests of participants in criminal proceedings in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The article develops the idea of the need to implement the norms of international legal acts into national legislation, borrowing positive foreign experience in implementing the norms regulating judicial control. At the same time, it is noted that the introduction of positive experience of foreign countries, as well as international standards and principles into national legal mechanisms is possible only taking into account the peculiarities of the legal system and the system of state law. Keywords: international standards, foreign experience, protection of rights and