> **KAZAKHSTAN**
>
> 1994 Kazakhstan **Symposium for Foreign Export Control Officials, 
> March 28 - April 1, 1994**, for 24 export control government officials
> from 14 nations: Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia,
> Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia,
> Slovakia and Ukraine, for interagency sessions on export control
> issues. The program was in two parts: attendance at the BXA Update
> \'94 Conference, held on March 29 - 30 on export administration
> regulations, licensing policy, and U.S. export control law; and a
> special Foreign Visitors Export Control Program featuring a technical
> forum at the Commerce Department. The program was designed to provide
> a basic introduction and outline to the essential elements of an
> international multi-purpose export control system. A panel of
> Commerce\'s Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) representatives
> presented industry views on U.S. export controls.
>
> 1994 Kazakhstan In December, 1993 (FY94), under the Nunn/ Lugar
> program, the U.S. and Kazakhstan signed an agreement providing
> assistance to Kazakhstan related to the establishment of export
> controls to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
>
> 1994 Kazakhstan In July, 1994, a delegation representing the several
> Kazakhstan agencies concerned with export controls visited BXA and the
> other U.S. export control agencies for initial discussion on
> **implementing the agreement on export control cooperation**.
>
> 1995 Kazakhstan **International Export Controls Symposium, Washington,
> DC, April, 1995** for 36 senior export control government officials
> from 15 nations \-- Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic,
> Estonia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine. The
> symposium consisted of two parts. The BXA Update \'95 Conference,
> focused on the U.S. Export Administration Regulations, licensing
> policy, and U.S. export control law. The Foreign Export Control
> officials Forum, which provided U.S. industry views on
> government-industry relations and Congressional views on
> nonproliferation issues.
>
> 1995 Kazakhstan In March 1995, BXA and OCC led an **Interagency Legal
> Forum in Washington, DC** with Kazakhstan legal experts to discuss the
> legislative basis necessary for an effective export control system.
>
> 1995 Kazakhstan In August 1995, BXA automation experts held technical
> discussions in Kazakhstan to assess the requirements of **automating
> their export licensing system**. This work continued in Washington in
> September during a BXA organized technical exchange on automation.
>
> 1995 Kazakhstan In September 1995, BXA experts conducted a **Technical
> Exchange on Control Lists and Licensing Procedures** in Washington,
> DC.  The discussions addressed the legal basis for control lists,
> licensing procedures and practices, general and technical aspects of
> control list development, enforcement of the dual-use control list,
> transit trade, commodity jurisdiction, and related issues.
>
> 1995 Kazakhstan BXA participated in events led by other agencies,
> including the **Department of Energy\'s Nonproliferation and Export
> Control Workshop** and a Department of State led planning meeting in
> June 1995 in Kazakhstan.
>
> 1996 Kazakhstan In FY 1996, BXA conducted successful technical
> exchanges in the legal, enforcement and automation areas. In addition,
> in June 1996, Kazakhstan became the **first NIS country to enact an
> export control law**. Kazakhstan's law was developed , in large part,
> during the interagency legal exchange hosted by BXA in March, 1995.
>
> 1996 Kazakhstan In July 1996, BXA hosted its **Third Annual Symposium
> for Export Control Officials in Washington, DC**  for 37 senior export
> control government officials from 16 nations \-- Albania, Belarus,
> Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia,
> Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia and
> Ukraine.
>
> 1996 Kazakhstan In July 1996, BXA hosted a delegation of high level
> executive and parliamentary officials from Azerbaijan, Belarus,
> Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Russia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan
> to participate in a program for Formulating and Implementing **Arms
> Control and Nonproliferation Policy**, sponsored by the Monterey
> Institute. Senior BXA officials briefed participants focusing on
> export control issues, including the legislative progress on the
> Export Administration Act.
>
> 1996 Kazakhstan In October 1995 (FY96), special agents from BXA\'s
> Office of Export Enforcement led the first ever **Interagency
> Enforcement Program** in Almaty, focusing on preventive enforcement
> techniques such as pre-license checks, post-shipment verifications,
> safeguards programs, and the use of criminal and administrative
> sanctions to deter potential illegal exports. Representatives from a
> number of Kazakhstan agencies involved in export controls took part in
> the program.
>
> 1996 Kazakhstan In April 1996, BXA organized a **Legal and Regulatory
> Forum** in Washington, DC to brief Kazakhstani officials on the legal
> elements of the U.S. export control system, including executive
> orders, interagency agreements and export control regulations covering
> dual-use items, munitions, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
>
> 1996 Kazakhstan In April 1996, BXA held meetings with Kazakhstani
> engineers to design systems to **automate Kazakhstan's interagency
> export licensing and administration procedures**.
>
> 1996 Kazakhstan In July 1996, BXA automation experts participated in
> interagency assessment in Almaty to design the next phases of
> automation of **Kazakhstan's interagency export licensing and
> administration procedures.**
>
> 1996 Kazakhstan **U.S. - Kazakhstan Legal and Regulatory Technical
> Forum III, Washington, DC, September 30 - October 11, 1996**. This
> forum assisted the Kazakhstan government in drafting documents to
> implement its export control law. Briefings focused on executive
> orders, interagency agreements, and regulations that implement
> statutory authority for controlling the export of dual-use, munitions,
> and other sensitive goods and technology.
>
> 1997 Kazakhstan **Export Control System Development Automation
> Dedication, Almaty, April 21 - 24, 1997**. BXA\'s continuing efforts
> resulted in Kazakhstan's official dedication of its automated license
> processing system. BXA experts completed the transfer of export
> control automation equipment to Kazakhstan under the Cooperative
> Threat Reduction (CTR) program.
>
> 1997 Kazakhstan **Technical Exchange Workshop and Training on Export
> Control Lists, Washington, DC, July 28 - August 1, 1997**.  BXA
> conducted a technical workshop for five licensing officials with
> material on multilateral regime control lists and commodity
> classifications. Participants developed a better understanding of
> control lists\' usage in license administration and its application to
> the Kazakhstani system.
>
> 1997 Kazakhstan **Export Control Cooperation Executive Exchange,
> Washington, DC, September 28 - October 3, 1997**.  A delegation of
> high level officials responsible for export controls in Kazakhstan
> attended a Commerce forum designed to familiarize them with the U.S.
> export control system. The forum focused on interagency coordination,
> legal elements, export control administration, licensing practices,
> export enforcement, industry-government relations and customs
> techniques.
>
> 1999 Kazakhstan **National Control List Technical Workshop,
> Washington, DC, April 5-9, 1999**.  Hosted by BXA, the workshop
> focused on the development of a dual-use control list by providing an
> overview of the control list process from both an international and a
> national perspective, and described practices in commodity
> classification work. The program included interagency visits to and
> briefings by representatives from the Department of Energy and the
> U.S. Customs Service. The meeting with a U.S. industry representative
> provided insight into how industry establishes and maintains
> classifications of its products.
>
> 1999 Kazakhstan **Licensing Procedures and Practices Workshop,
> Washington, DC, May 3- 7, 1999**. The exchange with the U.S.
> delegation provided the Kazakhs with information on the legal context
> and framework for the administration of an export licensing system,
> addressed the license review process including technical and policy
> analyses, dual-use and munitions licensing, interagency review,
> dispute resolutions, and final licensing decisions. Export enforcement
> aspects presented concerned pre- license inquiries and end-use and
> end-user checks. The workshop also provided extensive hands-on use of
> Licensing Officer Instructional Simulation (LOIS) software.
>
> 1999 Kazakhstan **Technical Workshop on the European Union Unified
> Control List in the International System, Astana, June 7-19, 1999**.
> The workshop focused on the use of the European Union (EU) Unified
> Control List; considered practices and procedures associated with the
> conversion to a unified control list; and covered the fundamental
> structure of the EU list, how it is used by licensing officers and
> industry to perform commodity classifications, and the benefits
> derived by a country adopting the EU model control list as the
> national control list.
>
> 2000 Kazakhstan **DOD/FBI Legal Assistance Workshop, Astana, December
> 9-10, 1999 (FY00)**.  A U.S. Commerce Department delegation provided
> comments to the Kazakhstan government on its draft export control law
> and on the proposed implementing regulations to that law.
>
> 2000 Kazakhstan **U.S. - EU Control List Technical Workshop for
> Kazakhstan, Eschborn, Germany, March 20-24, 2000**. BXA led a
> interagency team of U.S. export control technical specialists to
> conduct a joint workshop on the European Union (EU) Unified Control
> List for Kazakhstan export control experts. Hosted by the German
> Ministry of Economics and Technology and held at the German Federal
> Export Control Agency (BAFA), the workshop also included experts from
> the United Kingdom\'s Department of Trade and Industry, the
> Netherlands\' Ministry of Economics, and the U.S. Department of
> Energy. The European Union (EU) Unified Control List Technical
> Workshop assisted Kazakhstan export control organizations to use the
> EU Control List as a model for a National Control List for dual-use
> items controlled by the four major international control
> regimes.       [TOP]()