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ORGANIZATION  WT/ACC/KAZ/46 
3 March 2004 
 (04-0965) 
Working Party on the 
Accession of Kazakhstan Original:   English 
 
 
 
ACCESSION OF KAZAKHSTAN 
 
Submission from the Republic of Kazakhstan  
 
Synoptic Table on the Legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the Year 2004  
 
  The following submission is being circulated at  the request of the Delegation of the Republic 
of Kazakhstan.  
 
 
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Page 2 Name of Draft Law WTO Agreement Contents of Law Date of Introduction of Draft Law 
to the Parliament of the Republic 
of Kazakhstan 
On mass media (revision) General Agreement on 
Trade in Services  The draft law is aimed at ensuring the constitutional right of 
the citizens to freedom of speech, acquisition and distribution 
of information, assistance to development of mass media, 
development and strengthening of the unified informational space of the Republic.    Introduced to the Parliament on  
26 August 2003 
On protection, reproduction and use of the 
animal life (revision)  Agreement on 
Application of Sanitary 
and Phytosanitary Measures  
 
General Agreement on Trade in Services The draft law stipulates bringing the legal relations in the field 
of conservation and use of the animal life into conformity 
with the norms of current legislative acts in the field of environment protection, specially guarded natural territories, 
forest and water resources, land relations, etc. It aims to 
ensure conditions for the exis tence of the animal life, 
conservation of their species va riety and integrity of natural 
communities.   Introduced to the Parliament on 
24 December 2003 
On domestic water transport  General Agreement on 
Trade in Services  The draft law regulates relations among the state authorities 
and organizations of the domestic water transport of the Republic of Kazakhstan, carri ers, consignors, consignees, 
passengers and other legal entities and physical persons when 
performing navigation, transportation of passengers and cargo 
by domestic water transport, as well as determines their 
rights, responsibilities and liability.   Introduced to the Parliament on 
1 October 2003 
On amendments to the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On environm ent protection" with 
respect to the production and consumption 
wastes Agreement on 
Application of Sanitary 
and Phytosanitary 
Measures   
General Agreement on 
Trade in Services The draft law intends to regulate relations arising in the 
process of production and consumption wastes management 
in order to prevent, reduce and liquidate their harmful impact 
on the environment, health of the population, and involvement of such wastes in the economic turnover as additional sources 
of raw materials.    Introduced to the Parliament on 
14 November 2003 
On quality and safety of the food products  Agreement on 
Application of Sanitary 
and Phytosanitary 
Measures   
General Agreement on 
Trade in Services The draft law is aimed at im provement of the legal norms 
regulating relations ensuring the quality of the food products 
and their safety for the health of the population. Introduced to the Parliament on 
27 June 2002  
 
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 Page 3Name of Draft Law WTO Agreement Contents of Law Date of Introduction of Draft Law 
to the Parliament of the Republic 
of Kazakhstan 
On amendments to some legislative acts with respect to auditing  activity  General Agreement on 
Trade in Services  The draft law is aimed to further develop and improve audit 
and auditing activity in the Re public of Kazakhstan, to 
improve the investment climate and expand the international 
contacts, as well as to increase the responsibility of the auditors and auditing organiza tions. The draft law foresees 
bringing the auditing activity into conformity with the 
international standards of audit.  Introduced to the Parliament on 
6 November 2003 
On amendments to some legislative acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan with respect to 
intellectual property  Agreement on Trade 
Related Intellectual  
Property Rights   The draft law intends to ensure harmonization of the national 
legislation with the requirements of the international contracts 
and agreements  regulating protection of the intellectual 
property rights that would allow provision of a more effective functioning of the intellectual property rights protection in the 
Republic of Kazakhstan, to take  additional measures ensuring 
adequate protection of the intellectual property rights of both Kazakhstani and foreign intellect ual property rights holders.  
The draft law aims to  exclude ineffective provisions of the 
current legislative acts and to introduce up-to-date 
mechanisms in the field of legislative regulations. It is 
suggested to make changes and additions to the following Laws of the Republic of Kazak hstan:  "Patent Law of the 
Republic of Kazakhstan", "On tr ade marks, service marks and 
names of the places of origin of goods", "On protection of selective achievements in the Republic of Kazakhstan", "On 
legal protection of the topology of the integral micro-
schemes", "On author's right and neighbouring rights". Therefore, the draft law introduces retroactive protection of 
the author's rights, new notions and definitions in aims of 
unification with the international conventions and agreements.   Introduced to the Parliament on 
30 June 2003 
On the investment funds   The draft Law is designed to improve the types of investments 
and develop the investment activity in the Republic of 
Kazakhstan in general, as well as to lessen current excessive 
regulatory norms, which pose obstacles to the formation of the investment and shares funds, and to the transformation of 
the current joint-stock company system of the investment 
funds to the system of investment trusts.   Introduced to the Parliament on 
29 January 2004  
 
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Page 4 Name of Draft Law WTO Agreement Contents of Law Date of Introduction of Draft Law 
to the Parliament of the Republic 
of Kazakhstan 
On obligatory insurance in plant cultivation General Agreement on 
Trade in Services  The draft Law is aimed at provision of the protection of the 
property interests of the producers of the production of plant 
cultivation from consequences of unfavourable events 
following to partial or complete death of harvest by execution of insurance payment in cases, at amount and in order 
stipulated by this Law.   Introduced to the Parliament on 
26 November 2002 
On amendments to some legislative acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan with respect to the communications sphere The General Agreement 
on Trade in Services The draft law proposes to include in the Law of the Republic 
of Kazakhstan "On national security" the norm banning the foreign natural and legal persons as well as the persons 
without the citizenship to own, use, dispose and/or manage 
directly and/or indirectly in aggregate of more than 49 per cent of the voting shares , as well as the shares of the 
legal entities performing in the field of the communications. 
This restriction is only applied to the mainline communication operators.   Introduced to the Parliament on 
17 November 2003 
On amendments to the Law of the Republic of 
Kazakhstan "On natural monopolies"  Agreement on 
Application of Sanitary 
and Phytosanitary 
Measures  
 General Agreement on 
Trade in Services The draft law is crucial to clar ify a number of norms of the 
Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On natural monopolies," 
which require a clear definition of the authorized body's 
authority, as well as to eliminat e the deficiencies and conflicts 
in some the norms of the Law.   Will be introduced to the 
Parliament in March of this year  
On amendments to some legislative acts of the 
Republic of Kazakhstan with respect to the plants protection  Agreement on 
Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary 
Measures 
  General Agreement on 
Trade in Services The draft law is aimed to improv e the state system of plants 
protection, increase effectivene ss of protective measures and 
enhancement of the pesticides use control, which will reduce 
the risk of possible negative impact of the chemicals on the 
health of the population and environment, create additional 
barriers for penetration to the Kazakh market of the prohibited 
and other toxic chemicals including those related to the 
persistent organic pollutants.    Will be introduced to the 
Parliament in March of this year  
On making changes and additions to some legislative acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan 
with respect to accounting and financial 
reporting  General Agreement on 
Trade in Services The draft law aims at further development and improvement 
of the accounting and financial reporting system in the 
Republic of Kazakhstan in comp liance with the international 
financial reporting standards as well as at future integration into the world economy.  Will be introduced to the 
Parliament in March of this year   
 
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to the Parliament of the Republic 
of Kazakhstan 
On the Chambers of Commerce and Industry in the Republic of Kazakhstan  General Agreement on 
Trade in Services The draft is created to regulat e the legislative basis of the 
Chambers of Commerce and Indu stry activity, specification of 
such organizations' status and functions in the economy of the 
country, improve the effici ency of their work and 
attractiveness of the membership for the business entities.    Shall be introduced to the 
Parliament in April of this year  
On amendments to the Law of the Republic of 
Kazakhstan "On licensing" with respect to the 
optimization of the licensing system  General Agreement on 
Trade in Services  
 General Agreement on 
Tariffs and Trade  
 The main goal of this draft law is to optimize the licensing 
procedures, further improvement of the licensing system 
based on general principles of the licensing system optimization and ensuring national security, environmental 
protection, protection of life and health of the citizens and the 
rights of consumers.  Will be introduced to the 
Parliament in March of this year  
On international commercial arbitration  General Agreement on 
Trade in Services The draft law was designed to regulate the organizational and 
legal aspects in the field of the international arbitrages, 
specifying the order of execution of the international arbitrage 
decisions on the territory of the Republic. Will be introduced to the 
Parliament in April of this year  
On competition and limitation of monopolistic activity (revision)   General Agreement on 
Trade in Services 
 
General Agreement on 
Tariffs and Trade The aim of the draft law is to generate support and protection 
of the competition, creation of more favourable conditions for 
the effective functioning of competitive relations in the goods 
markets, as well as the improvement of the organizational and 
legal basis for prevention, limitation and suppression of the 
monopolistic activity.    Will be introduced to the 
Parliament in April of this year  
On information and protection of information  General Agreement on 
Trade in Services Enactment of the draft law wa s caused by the necessity to 
create the legal conditions for implementation of the 
constitutional rights of each c itizen search and get access to 
the information; clear identification of the rights of the entities participating in the information processes, legislative 
enhancement of the information resources as the element of 
the property and the object of the right to property; identification of the information types for limited distribution 
and establishment of the legal regime of such types of 
information.  Will be introduced to the 
Parliament in June of this year   
 
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to the Parliament of the Republic 
of Kazakhstan 
On technical regula tion  Agreement on 
Technical Barriers to 
Trade  
 The draft Law is created to tr ansfer the national system of 
technical regulation to the international model of the technical 
regulation and intends to bring it in conformity with the WTO 
Agreement on technical barriers to trade.   
The principle distinction of th e new draft law comparing to 
the acting legislation is the creation of the technical regulations bearing a mandatory character and transition to 
voluntary standards.   Will be introduced to the 
Parliament in June of this year  
On amendments to some legislative acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan with respect to the commodity exchanges   General Agreement on 
Trade in Services The draft law is intended to develop main principles and 
mechanisms of the exchange activity in the Republic of Kazakhstan.  Will be introduced to the 
Parliament in June of this year  
On amendments to some legislative acts of the 
Republic of Kazakhstan with respect to 
investments     The draft law is aimed at formation of more transparent and 
clear procedures of providing investment preferences to the 
enterprises  performing investment activity as well as at creation of a more favourable and stimulating conditions to 
create new and/or increase the valu e of existing fixed assets.    Will be introduced to the 
Parliament in June of this year  
On culture  General Agreement on 
Trade in Services The draft law is the new revision of the Law of the Republic 
of Kazakhstan "On culture," it comprises the legal, economic, 
social and organizational basis for the national regulation of 
the public relations in the sphere of creation, resurgence, preservation, development, use and distribution of the culture 
in the Republic of Kazakhstan.   Will be introduced to the 
Parliament in June of this year  
On amendments to the Tax Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On taxes and other obligatory payments to the budget" (The Tax 
Code) with respect to stimulating scientific 
and innovative research and work as well as stimulation of scientific achievements and 
innovative developments into the production 
process   General Agreement on 
Trade in Services   
General Agreement on 
Trade  and Tariffs  The draft law was created to stimulate the scientific and 
innovative research and work, as well as its application in the production process  Will be introduced to the 
Parliament in June of this year  
On currency regulation and currency control  General Agreement on 
Trade in Services Development of the draft law wa s caused by the necessity to 
change the existing approach to regulation of the currency 
operations and step-by-step liberalization of the currency 
regime in the Republic.  Will be introduced to the 
Parliament in September of this 
year  
On amendments to some legislative acts of the 
Republic of Kazakhstan with respect to the 
rights to intellectual property  Agreement on Trade 
Related Intellectual 
Property Rights This draft law is aimed at further improvement of the 
criminal, administrative legislation to enhance the protection 
of the intellectual property rights. Will be introduced to the 
Parliament in October of this year   
 
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of Kazakhstan 
On amendments to the Customs Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan  General Agreement on 
Trade and Tariffs  The draft law is aimed at further improvement of the customs 
administration, bringing it into conformity with the legislative 
acts of other spheres of legislation.   Will be introduced to the 
Parliament in November of this 
year  
The Labour Code General Agreement on 
Trade in Services The draft law is necessary for cr eation of the legal base for the 
achievement of all parties labour relations' balance of interests, real protection of the labour and social rights of the 
employees taking into account th e interests of the employers 
as well as for the provision of the state control of their application.   Will be introduced to the 
Parliament in December of this year  
On cinema  
 General Agreement on 
Trade in Services The draft law intends to creat e the legislative base for 
relations in the field of cine matography taking into account 
the fact that it is one of the most complicated systems in the 
cultural sphere which includes interconnected processes for 
creation, duplication, use and protection of audiovisual 
products.  Will be introduced to the 
Parliament in December of this 
year  
 
 
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