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Working Party on the Accession of Kazakhstan    
 
 ACCESSION OF KAZAKHSTAN 
SEPTEMBER CYCLE OF MEETINGS – "TRANSPARENCY REPORTS" 
23-26 September 2014 
 
  
 
  
As requested by H.E. Mr. Vesa Himanen (Finland), Chairman of the Working Party, attached 
to this document are the "Transparency Reports" of the meetings held during the September Cycle 
on the Accession of Kazakhstan.  These reports were initially verbally presented to Members at the Informal Meeting of the Working Party on 26 September 2014. 
 
The reports sub-joined to this document are listed hereunder: 
 
1. Plurilateral Meeting on SPS, 23 September 2014: Report by Director, Accessions Division; 
2. Fourth Technical Verification Meeting on the Re vised Consolidated Draft Schedule of Tariff 
Concessions and Commitments on Goods, 24 September 2014: Report by Director, Accessions Division; 
3. Plurilateral Meeting on Tariff Adjustment, 24 September 2014: Report by the Secretariat; 
4. Small Group Consultations on the Draft Working Party Report, 25 September 2014:  
Report by Chairman of the Working Party; and, 
5. Technical Verification Meeting of the Draft Schedule of Specific Commitments on 
Services, 26 September 2014: Report by Director, Accessions Divisions. 
 
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  This document has been prepared under the Secretariat's own responsibility 
and is without prejudice to the positions of Members or to their rights and 
obligations under the WTO. JOB/ACC/44 
 
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  ANNEX 1 
PLURILATERAL MEETING ON SPS 
23 September 2014 
Report by Director, Accessions Division1  
 Members of the Working Party on the Accession of Kazakhstan met on 23 September 2014, 
in an open-ended Plurilateral Meeting.  The meeting was chaired by the Director of the WTO 
Accessions Division.  The purpose of the m eeting was to review the revised Draft SPS 
Chapter (JOB/ACC/30/Rev.6).  This Draft Chapter is yet to be mainstreamed into the main 
body of the Draft Working Party Report (DWP R).  The Draft SPS Chapter was reviewed in 
conjunction with Kazakhstan's responses to Members' questions on SPS (JOB/ACC/30/Rev.5/Add.1).  The meeting also considered "Next Steps".   
 
 At the start of the meeting, the Secretariat reca lled that the Accession of Kazakhstan was at 
the end-game stage.  To this end, messages fr om Members, including from high levels of 
Government, were to accelerate the Accession of Kazakhstan and endeavour for a possible 
conclusion in 2014.  The Secretariat underlined that  if this objective was to be realized, real-
time work was required that would be purposeful, non-bureaucratic, problem-solving and 
result-oriented.  It would, therefore, be ne cessary, that Kazakhstan, supported by Members, 
depart from the cycle-to-cycle orientation and work non-stop on a rolling basis to resolve outstanding issues.   
 
 H.E. Mrs. Gulmira Issayeva, Vice-Minister of Ag riculture of Kazakhstan, offered introductory 
remarks.  Several points, inter alia , were underlined in her remarks:   
 
o First, Kazakhstan recalled the on-going transformation of the Customs Union (CU) 
between the Russian Federation (RF), Belarus and Kazakhstan into the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).   In this context,  she informed Members of the legislative 
changes in the area of SPS associated with this transformation;  
 
o Second, Kazakhstan was working in real time on the revision of the Draft SPS 
Chapter, which had been reflected in the updated references to the EAEU 
legislation and had removed square brackets in 21 commitment paragraphs which 
Kazakhstan considered had stabilized; and,  
 
o Third, Kazakhstan had provided explanations  with respect to the retained brackets 
and expressed its readiness to engage constructively with Members on further improvements of the Draft Chapter.   
 
 The meeting was technical and practical.  The review of the Draft SPS Chapter by Members 
was scrupulous against the background of Members' concerns regarding regulatory restrictions in the SPS area.  Members re-identified and underlined, repeatedly, their 
concerns and the concrete issues that had to be addressed by Kazakhstan and its CU 
Partners, expeditiously.  Constructively, Kazakhstan agreed to promptly work on the outstanding questions, including the prompt  adoption of the necessary decisions.  
 
 The overall mood of the meeting, however, was positive and constructive.  It was 
acknowledged that progress had been made.  Collectively, Members encouraged Kazakhstan 
to address the issues that remained with ex peditious decision-making to get its accession 
done.   
                                               
1 This Report is circulated by the Director of the Ac cessions Division on his own responsibility. It is a 
transparency report, requested by the Chairman of the Working Party, for all Members of the Working Party on 
the Accession of Kazakhstan.  It is the scripted versio n of the preliminary oral reports to Members at the 
conclusion of the SPS Plurilateral on 23 September and subsequently to the Informal Meeting of the Working 
Party on the Accession of Kazakhst an, on Friday, 26 September 2014.   JOB/ACC/44 
 
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   Members expressed a range of concerns.  Concerns were expressed over the pace by 
Kazakhstan to bring its SPS regime into consistency with WTO rules.  The pace of work did not reflect the ambition to conclude the WTO a ccession of Kazakhstan in 2014.  Considerable 
substantive work on the Draft Chapter remained outstanding and required before it could be 
mainstreamed into the DWPR.  A major proportion of outstanding issues revolved around 
the architectural problem of the inter-relationships and jurisdictional questions between the CU/EAEU and Kazakhstan.  Who had responsibility for what?  Did measures taken in one 
jurisdiction bind other jurisdictions and how?  Also, fundamentally, the ambition for a 2014 
conclusion had to correspond to action on the legislative front, both at the national and the CU levels, to enact required draft laws and associated regulation.  In this context, the enactment of Draft CU Decisions No. 317 an d No. 834 was of particular importance. 
 
  The technical exchanges revolved, mainly, around the following sub-chapters:  (i) Trade in 
Goods Subject to Veterinary Control; (ii) Esta blishment Approval, Register and Inspections;  
and (iii) Compliance of the SPS Regime with the Specific Provisions of the WTO SPS Agreement.  A non-exhaustive "sense" of the technical exchange between Members and 
Kazakhstan and associated advice to the A cceding Government, are summarized hereunder:  
 
o Necessity for continuous updates of the Dr aft Chapter to reflect all newly adopted 
EEC Decisions/amendments; 
 
o Imperative of addressing the concerns raised with respect to the questions of 
duplication, overlap and conflict of jurisdictions in the CU; specifically, the 
unanswered question regarding whether an SPS restriction applied by one CU 
Member would apply and be binding on other Members of the CU;    
 
o Concerns expressed by Members with regard to veterinary certificates.  Questions 
were raised, inter alia , on the relationship and roles of the Eurasian Economic 
Commission (EEC), on the one hand, and national authorities, on the other, regarding the negotiation and grant of veterinary certificates; replacement 
certificates; and certificates with different conditions in different CU Members. 
Concerns were expressed over lengthy nego tiating process, preceding the issuance 
of veterinary certificates and receiving clear feedback on these certificates.  
The position of Members remained that the contradictions in this area must be 
resolved before accession;   
 
o Members also required clarification and further legislative work on the procedures 
for establishment approval, including the correlation of the lists of approved establishments produced at the national level, on the one hand, and at the level of the CU, on the other; as well as proper functioning of the three options available 
for exporting establishments (audit, guarantees and joint inspections);  
 
o Members underlined that both CU regulations and decisions, and the national laws 
and regulations of Kazakhstan, should be compliant with international standards 
and recommendations; and that SPS measures should be based on sound scientific evidence (specifically, measures restricting the use of ractopamine and trenbolone 
acetate were mentioned).  In those instances, where "risk assessments" had been 
used, Members noted that they would welcome a situation in which the "risk assessments" that had been used by Kazakhstan would be shared with them;    
 
o An over-arching comment across the differe nt Sections of the Draft SPS Chapter 
by Members was their appeal to Kazakhstan and its CU Members that draft SPS-specific commitments being considered for adoption and progress on SPS 
draft laws and regulations in the process of enactment should correspond to the 
actual operational reality "on the ground".   
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   "Next Steps":  The open-ended SPS Plurilateral made evident that the Draft SPS Chapter 
was not yet at a stage that would allow it to be mainstreamed into the DWPR.  Further work was required.  Given the time constraints, no next steps with regard to the timing for the 
next Plurilateral meeting and the "standard" questions and responses process were 
identified.  Kazakhstan and Members were encouraged to intensify their negotiating 
engagement and work in a Small group format, on a non-stop basis.  To facilitate the process, the Secretariat offered to prepare a consolidation of comments, questions and 
requests for clarification raised at the meet ing and transmit these to the Delegation of 
Kazakhstan after the meeting.   
  
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  ANNEX 2 
 
WT/ACC/SPEC/KAZ/10/REV.4: REVISED CONSOLIDATED DRAFT GOODS SCHEDULE: 
FOURTH TECHNICAL VERIFICATION MEETING 
24 September 2014  
Report by Director, Accessions Division1 
 Twenty-nine Signatory Members, the Acceding Government of Kazakhstan and the Russian 
Federation met on 24 September 2014.  Th e meeting was chaired by the Director, 
Accessions Division.  The purpose was to (i) undertake the 4th Technical Verification Meeting 
(TVM) to review WT/ACC/SPEC/KAZ/10/Rev.4: the Revised Consolidated Draft Goods Schedule of Tariff Concessions and Commitments on the Accession of Kazakhstan; and (ii) 
agree to Next Steps.   
 
 At the start of the TVM, the Secretariat recalled the specific background relating to the initial 
consolidation of the first version of the Draft Goods Schedule and identified remaining gaps 
in the revised Draft Schedule in WT/ACC/SPEC/K AZ/10.Rev.4.  More specifically, two linked 
technical presentations by the Secretariat covered the following:  
 
o First, recalled the baseline consolidation in the first version of the Draft Goods Schedule 
of Kazakhstan circulated in April 2012 and associated technical questions addressed;  
 
o Second, reviewed the technical questions, comments and enquiries received from 
Signatory Members, since the circulation of the current 4
th Revision, on 26 August; and  
 
o Third, explained the methodologies applied by the Secretariat, in partnership with the 
Acceding Government of Kazakhstan, to resolve, most of the technical questions.   
 
 The 4th TVM was technical, problem-solving and practical.  Participants welcomed the 
Secretariat product as moving in the right direction.  Participants were constructively engaged.  They considered the substantive technical exchanges and the results from the 
4
th TVM, positive.  Signatory Members provided further guidance and, as a consequence, 
additional impetus for continued work by the Secretariat, in collaboration with Signatory 
Members and Kazakhstan, on the next Revision, so as to advance towards the conclusion of the Consolidation exercise.   
 
 The technical exchanges, emergent understanding and guidance for the Secretariat, 
including on Next Steps, are summarized hereunder:  
 
o Ad Valorem  Equivalents (AVEs): The Secretariat reported that of the 947 Tariff 
Lines (TL) for which FBR AVE calculations were required, it had concluded 890 and 57 remained outstanding.  Consequent on the exchange with Signatory Members 
and Kazakhstan, it was agreed that the Secretariat would circulate the 890 AVEs 
already calculated, accompanied by import (trade) data used.  The Secretariat also explained that in the next Rev.5, the AVE "markers" in Rev.4 would be eliminated.   
 
o Tariff Line Traceability: Some Members signalled that they would submit additional 
TLs where they required the Secretariat to assist them in tracing the concessions 
they secured, which had been obscured through a range of factors: tariff line 
descriptions alignment, HS transpositions, etc.   
 
                                               
1 This Report is circulated by the Director of the Ac cessions Division on his own responsibility.  It is a 
transparency report, at the request of the Chairman of the Working Party, to all Me mbers of the Working Party 
on the Accession of Kazakhstan.  It is  the scripted version of the report initially repo rted to Members at the 
Informal Meeting of the Working Party on the Access ion of Kazakhstan, on Friday, 26 September 2014.   JOB/ACC/44 
 
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  o Clarification of the understanding on the Chairman's Proposal on Ordinary Customs 
Duties (JOB/ACC/40): Kazakhstan would be required to explain how it would address a range of tariff lines (approximately 2400), where initial and/or current bound rates cross-over those of the Russian Federation.  This issue affected both 
agriculture and non-agriculture sectors.  Kazakhstan was asked to indicate whether 
Kazakhstan would bind at the lower level.    
o At the request of a Member, Kazakhstan confirmed that "upon accession" and until 
the "full implementation of the FBRs agreed in bilateral negotiations with WTO Members", Kazakhstan would bind its Initial and Final Bound Rates and their staging at the lower rates agreed in its bilateral negotiations with WTO Members 
and the Protocol of Accession of the Russian Federation.   
 
o Russian Federation-Kazakhstan Inconsistent  FBRs: Member(s) indicated that they 
would detail and forward to the Secretariat approximately 10 TLs where the 
Russian FBRs listed, for comparison purposes, in Kazakhstan draft schedule were inconsistent with the FBRs of the Russian Federation.   
 
o National Nomenclature question: Kazakhstan would be required to provide 
information on TLs where National Nomenclature existed for Kazakhstan but without equivalents for the Russian Federation.  Kazakhstan agreed to report with 
additional information, as soon as possible.   
 
o Gaps in Rev.4:  
 
 Headnotes: Kazakhstan informed Members that it would submit revised 
Headnotes to the Secretariat, in the week of 29 September, for circulation 
to Signatory Members;  
  TRQs: Kazakhstan informed Members that it had decided to accept/take 
TRQ commitments in its Goods Schedule.  It further announced that it 
would be meeting with Signatory Memb ers with which it was negotiating 
these TRQ commitments to finalize details which would be submitted to the Secretariat as soon as possible; 
 
 Agriculture Inputs for Part IV of the Goods Schedule: Kazakhstan informed 
Members that it was in the "final stage" of its negotiations with Members to 
agree on inputs that would be used to complete Part IV of the Goods 
Schedule namely, Agricultural Support: AMS, de minimis  and export 
subsidies; and,  
 
 Export Duties: The 4
th TVM was informed that the Export Duties Schedule 
for Part V of the Goods Schedule would be submitted as soon as possible, together with associated textual language for the Draft Working Party 
Report.   
 
 "Next Steps": The understanding was evident that the Secretariat could proceed with 
revising the Draft Schedule of Tariff Concessions and Commitments on Goods, to generate 
Rev.5, on the condition that all the technical questions are addressed and the identified gaps 
are completed.   
 
 
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  ANNEX 3 
PLURILATERAL MEETING ON TARIFF ADJUSTMENT –  
CHAIRMAN'S PROPOSAL ON ORDINARY CUSTOMS DUTIES 
24 September 2014 
Report by the Secretariat  
 
 
 
   
 Twenty-nine Signatory Members,
1 the Russian Federation and the Acceding Government of 
Kazakhstan met on 24 September 2014.  This Pl urilateral meeting was chaired by Ambassador 
Himanen (Finland), Chairman of the Working Party on the Accession of Kazakhstan.  
The purpose was to: (i) focus on the outstanding technical substance, in particular on the nine 
draft paragraphs, (from 289 to 289 novies ) in the Chairman's Proposal contained in document 
JOB/ACC/40, with a view to identi fying compromise language; and, (ii) agree to Next Steps.   
 
 At the start of the meeting, the Chairman re called the specific background to the tariff 
adjustment exercise, including the first consultations held on 22 July 2014 and subsequent submission of inputs by several Members to his original proposal contained in JOB/ACC/40.  
Thereafter, he invited the Director of Accessions to report on two meetings, chaired by the 
Secretariat under the Chairman's delegated authority. These were:  
 
o Expert Level Technical Plurilateral Meeting on Tariff Adjustment (TA), 17 September 
2014;
2 and, 
 
o Technical Verification Meeting (TVM) on the Fourth Revision of the Draft Consolidated 
Goods Schedule of Tariff Concessions and Commitments, 24 September 2014 (See Annex 2). 
 
 The 2
nd Plurilateral Meeting on Tariff Adjustment was well attended.  Delegations comprised 
Lead Negotiators and Experts from Capital, in addition to the Geneva-based delegations of Signatory Members, Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation.  Kazakhstan's Delegation was led 
by its Chief Negotiator, Minister Aitzhanova of  Economic Integration.  The engagement was 
technical, constructive and problem-solving.  Several paragraphs were enhanced and progress 
made by the removal of square brackets.  In addition to the paragraphs where outstanding 
work remained, Members expressed their concer ns and identified areas where clarification 
would be required.   
  Substantive exchanges revolved, largely, around the issues and questions, some of which had 
already been identified at the Expert Level Technical Plurilateral Meeting held on 
17 September.  A range of substantive exchanges made evident, the following:   
 
o First, Members underscored and reiterated the importance they attached to guarantees 
and safeguard of their tariff concessions, predictable and uninterrupted market access, including on non-tariff measures (TRQs and SPS measures).  They sought clarity by 
                                               
1 Argentina; Australia; Brazil; Canada; China; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Egypt; El Salvador; 
European Union; Georgia; Guatemala;  Honduras; India; Israel; Japan; Ko rea, Republic of; Kyrgyz Republic; 
Malaysia; Mexico; Norway; Oman; Pakistan; Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of; Switzerland; Chinese Taipei; Turkey; and United States.   
2 JOB/ACC/43: Report by Director Accessions Divisi on on the Proposal on Ordinary Customs Duties 
(Tariff Adjustment) - Informal Expert Level Technical Plurilateral Meeting, 17 September 2014. 
 This document has been prepared under the Secretariat's own responsibility 
and is without prejudice to the positions of Members or to their rights and 
obligations under the WTO.  JOB/ACC/44 
 
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  requesting that the list of tariff lines where tariff adjustment was envisaged, could be 
annexed to the Draft Working Party Report (DWPR), if possible.   
 
o Second, some Members sought guarantees of eligibility to participate at the second 
level of tariff adjustment.  Questions were asked regarding compensation and who 
would be affected.   
 
o Third, Members noted the relationship betw een the conclusion of the exchanges on 
tariff adjustment, on the one hand, and gaps that remained to be filled, such as on TRQs, on the other hand.      
 While acknowledging that the question of tariff adjustment was unique in the work of the 
Organization, Members demonstrated a willingness to support Kazakhstan in resolving the outstanding questions that remained.   
 
 Other outstanding issues reviewed included: tran sit of the goods of those Tariff Lines which are 
exceptions to CET within the CU; as well as the applicability of commitments to CU Members 
other than Kazakhstan.  On these issues, which some considered were not directly relevant in 
the Section on Ordinary Customs Duties of the DWPR, suggestions were made to explore the possibility of reflecting relevant commitments  in other Sections of the DWPR.       
    
 Overall, progress was registered at this Plurilateral Meeting.  Members reiterated their support 
and availability for consultations.  The decisions taken, so far, by Kazakhstan, were acknowledged, specifically, on those to bind at lower levels of tariff concessions by the Russian 
Federation.  Kazakhstan was encouraged to sustain the momentum.  It was understood that 
consultations would continue in different configurations to address outstanding questions.   
 "Next Steps": (i) The Chairman was mandated to sustain his consultations on this proposal; 
(ii) small Group consultations led by Kazakhstan would continue on paragraphs 289 quater  and 
sexies , as it considered appropriate; and (iii) the Chairman, assisted by the Secretariat, was 
mandated to update the Chairman's Proposal and circulate Revision 3, contained in JOB/ACC/40, with relevant inputs and with regard to consultations.  The Chairman's revised 
Proposal would be reviewed at the next Plurilateral Meeting of Chief Negotiators.  
The Chairman confirmed that all ideas and suggestions in whatever format should be submitted to him for his review, consultations and reflection in a subsequent Revision 3, of his 
Chairman's Proposal, as appropriate.  
  
 
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  ANNEX 4 
SMALL GROUP CONSULTATIONS ON THE DRAFT WORKING PARTY REPORT 
 
25 September 2014 
Report by Chairman of the Working Party1  
 
 As Members already know, I am consulting in a range of formats and configurations to 
provide impetus to the process of developing the Draft Accession Package in keeping with 
guidance and signals from Members at the highest levels of our leadership to conclude the Accession of Kazakhstan, as soon as possible and,  if possible, within this calendar year.   
 
 T o  t h i s  e n d ,  a s  C h a i r m a n  o f  t h e  W o r k i n g  P a r t y ,  I  c o n v e n e d  I n f o r m a l  S m a l l  G r o u p  
Consultations on 25 September 2014.  The Delegation of Kazakhstan was led by Minister Aitzhanova, Chief Negotiator for WTO Accession.   
 
 In this on-going process, I initiated the re view the 424-page Draft Working Party Report 
(DWPR), contained in document WT/ACC/SP EC/KAZ/9/Rev.12.  The purpose of my 
consultations was to eliminate brackets from draft specific commitment, where possible, in 
stabilised draft texts and identify remainin g gaps in the Draft Working Party Report.  
Progress was made.  Participants engaged constructively.  Flexibility was demonstrated.    
 At the start of the consultations, the Delegation of Kazakhstan reported that it had 
eliminated brackets from 20 Chapters.
2  Of 35 paragraphs with brackets at the start of the 
meeting, brackets were removed from 20.  Out of the 15 remaining paragraphs with 
brackets, Members undertook to revert after th e consultations to provide feedback on my 
request, as Chairman, for the removal of brackets in additional 5 paragraphs3.   
  
 The remaining 11 paragraphs with brackets in the Report relate to five issues, which have 
been long outstanding in the Working Party.  These included: (i) state-owned enterprises4; 
(ii) trading rights5; (iii) trade remedies6; (iv) export taxes7; and (v) TRIMs8.  On these 
issues, specific proposals are on the table.  I encouraged Kazakhstan and Members to 
intensify their consultations with a view to finding compromises in the coming weeks, based 
on the proposals on the table.  Some Members requested additional information or sought clarification on some other paragraphs
9, which would be reflected in the next revision of the 
Report.   
  
 I reminded Members that the Ch apters on Agriculture and SPS10, and my textual proposal on 
Tariff Adjustment11 were yet to be incorporated into the DWPR.  I encouraged Kazakhstan 
                                               
1 This Report is circulated on my own responsibility  as Chairman of the Working Party on the Accession 
of Kazakhstan.  It is a transparency report  to all Members of the Working Party.   
2 1. Foreign Exchange and Payments ; 2. Investment Regime; 3. Pricing Policy; 4. Framework for Making 
and Enforcing Policies; 5. Re gistration Requirements fo r Import and Export Operat ions; 6. Ordinary Customs 
Duties; 7. Other duties and charges; 8. Fees an d Charges for Services Rendered; 9.  Application of Internal 
Taxes to Imports; 10. Customs Valuation; 11. Rules of Origin; 12. Preshipment Inspection; 13. Export Regulation: b) Quantitative Export Restrictions, including Prohibitions and Quotas; 14. Industrial Policy, including Subsidies; 15. Technical Barriers to Trade; 16. Free Zones, Special Economic Areas; 17. Transit; 18. Trade-related Intellectual Property Regime; 19. Transparency; and, 20. Trade Agreements.   
3 Paragraphs 341, 373, 531, 576 and 735.   
4 Paragraphs 135, 136 and 137. 
5 Paragraph 272. 
6 Paragraph 517. 
7 Paragraph 521.  
8 Paragraphs 682 and 683. 
9 Paragraphs 204, 248, 249, 363, 537, 539, 574. 
10 The latest versions of the draft Chapters are co ntained in JOB/ACC/30/Rev. 6, and JOB/ACC/37/Rev.5, 
respectively.  
11 JOB/ACC/40.  JOB/ACC/44 
 
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  and Members to work intensively with the objective of resolving outstanding questions so 
that these Chapters could be mainstreamed into the body of the Report as soon as possible.    
 After the section-by-section review of the Draft Working Party Report, Kazakhstan provided 
an update to the Legislative Action Plan (LAP)
12.  The latest LAP, submitted by Kazakhstan, 
reflected the list of legislation which would be enacted and come into force upon accession.   These would be integral to the terms and conditions of its membership.   
 
 I will sustain these Consultations on a rolling basis, when they are justified by substantive 
advances and decisions required for the conclusion of this accession.  At this time, I request Kazakhstan and Members to stay focused on the substance.   
 
 To conclude, I have asked technical experts in the Negotiating Team of Kazakhstan and the 
Secretariat to intensify their technical engagement so as to fill the remaining gaps in the 
Draft Working Party Report, including in the Introduction, on Documentation and, in the 
"Conclusions" Section, among others.   
 
 As Chairman, I will continue to report to Members of the Working Party, including through 
my periodic Fax Communication, on progress as we move to conclude our work on the Accession of Kazakhstan.  In doing so, I continue to appeal to all for pragmatism, in resolving the unique questions that we are faced with. I encourage the Delegation of 
Kazakhstan to take critical decisions sooner, rather than later, with the support of its 
partners in the Customs Union.    
 
 
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  ANNEX 5 
TECHNICAL VERIFICATION MEETING OF THE DRAF T SCHEDULE OF SPECIFIC COMMITMENTS ON 
SERVICES 
26 September 2014  
Report by Director, Accessions Division1 
 
 The Technical Verification Meeting of the Draf t Consolidated Schedule of Commitments on 
Trade in Services (the Draft Services Schedule) of Kazakhstan took place on 26 September.  
The verification exercise was successfully concluded; hence making possible the emergence of the first draft component of the Draft Accessi on Package on the Accession of Kazakhstan.   
 
 The verification meeting was chaired by th e Director of the Accessions Division.  
The 15 Signatory Members
2 participated, the Acceding Government of Kazakhstan led by 
H.E. Minister Aitzhanova and, the Russian Federation.   
 
 To initiate the verification, the Secretariat made a presentation of the Draft Services 
Schedule as contained in WT/ACC/SPEC/KAZ/12 and indicated changes made in 
WT/ACC/SPEC/KAZ/12/Rev.1 to be circulated in the week, starting 29 September.3   
  Prior to circulation of the verified Draft Schedule, on a no-objection basis, one Signatory 
Member would revert to convey agreed adju sted language/commitment with Kazakhstan 
and, another Member indicated that it could revert with a possible clarification.  
  This positive outcome has been reported to Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, Ambassador 
Vesa Himanen, Chairman of the Working Party and hereby to Members of the Working Party 
on the Accession of Kazakhstan.   
 
 
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1 This Report is circulated by the Director of the Ac cessions Division on his own responsibility.  It is a 
transparency report to all Members of  the Working Party on the Accession of  Kazakhstan.  It is the scripted 
version of the report initially pres ented to Informal Meeting of the Working Party on the Accession of 
Kazakhstan, on Friday, 26 September 2014.   
2 Australia; Brazil; Canada; China; Egypt; European Union; India; Japan; Korea, Republic of; Norway; 
Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of; Switzerland; Ch inese Taipei; Turkey; and United States. 
3 The Draft Schedule of Specific  Commitments on Services on the Accession of Kazakhstan was 
circulated to all Members of the Working Party on 3 October 2014, in document WT/ACC/SPEC/KAZ/12/Rev.1.