G/RO/N/148  
 
12 September 2016 
(16-4803) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Rules of Origin   
 
NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE  5 AND PARAGRAPH  4 OF 
ANNEX  II TO THE AGREEMENT ON RULES OF ORIGIN  
NON-PREFERENTIAL AND PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN  
1.1.  According to Article  5.1 of the Agreement on Rules of Origin, each Member shall provide to 
the Secretariat, withi n 90 days after the date of entry into force of the WTO  Agreement for it, 
its rules of origin, judicial decisions, and administrative rulings of general application relating to 
rules of origin in effect on that date. If, by inadvertence, a rule of origin h as not been provided, 
the Member concerned shall provide it immediately after this fact becomes known. Article  5.2 
of the Agreement provides, moreover, that during the period referred to in Article  2, Members 
introducing modifications, other than de  minimi s modifications, to their rules of origin or 
introducing new rules of origin, shall publish a notice to that effect at least 60  days before the 
entry into force of the modified or new rule in such a manner as to enable interested parties to 
become acquaint ed with the intention to modify a rule of origin or to introduce a new rule 
of origin, unless exceptional circumstances arise or threaten to arise for a Member.  
1.2.  Furthermore, paragraph  4 of Annex  II to the Agreement on Rules of Origin envisages that 
Members  shall promptly provide to the Secretariat their existing or new preferential rules of origin, 
including a listing of the preferential arrangements to which they apply, judicial decisions, and 
administrative rulings of general application relating to their  preferential rules of origin. In this 
respect, the Committee on Rules of Origin further agreed that notifications made to the Committee  
on Regional Trade Agreements (CRTA) or the Committee on Trade and Development (CTD) could 
also suffice to discharge Mem bers' notification obligations under the Agreement on Rules of Origin 
(G/RO/M/59). As a result, the Committee agreed that notifications which had been initially 
received by the CRTA or the CTD should also be circulated by the Secretariat to the CRO. 
Inform ation regarding such notifications, including related to preferential rules of origin, can also 
be obtained through the WTO  database on regional trade agreements ( http://rtais.wto.org ) or the 
WTO database on preferenti al trade agreements ( http://ptadb.wto.org ). 
1.3.  With reference to these rules, the following notification has been received:  
KAZAKHSTAN  
(Notification in English ) 
A. NON-PREFERENTIAL RULES O F ORIGIN  
Kazakhstan's rules are p rovided in the following instrument:  
- Chapter  10 "Rules of Origin of Goods " of the Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan No.  296-IV 
"On Customs Issues in the Republic of Kazakhstan " of 30 June 2010.  
B. PREFERENTIAL RULES O F ORIGIN  
Kazakhstan's rules are prov ided in the following instruments:  
- The Agreement on Common Rules of Origin of 25  January  2008; and  
- The Agreement on Rules of Origin for Developing and Least Developed Countries  of 
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  The original version of these documents (Kazakh and Ru ssian languages) ca n be found on the 
following web sites1: 
- http://adilet.zan.kz/ ; and 
- http://www.eurasiancommission.org  
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1 An unofficial translation of th ese documents is available with the Secretariat for consultation.