G/RO/N/148/Rev.1  
 
27 October 2016  
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Committee on Rules of Ori gin   
 
 NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE  5 AND PARAGRAPH  4 OF 
ANNEX  II TO THE AGREEMENT ON RULES OF ORIGIN  
NON-PREFERENTIAL AND PREFERENTIAL RULES OF ORIGIN  
Revision  
1.1.  According to Article  5.1 of the Agreement on Rules of Origin, each Member shall provide to 
the Secretari at, within 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 has 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 minimis 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  acquainted 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 tha t 
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 disc harge Members' 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 CR O. 
Information 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 p referential 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 ru les are provided in the following instrument:  
- The Agreement on Common Rules of Origin of 25  January  2008; and  
- 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.  G/RO/N/148/Rev.1  
 
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  B. PREFERENTIAL RULES O F ORIGIN  
Kazakhstan's rules are provided in the following instruments:  
- The Agreement on Rules of Origin for Developing and Least Developed Countries  of 
12 December  2008.  
The original version of these documents (Kaz akh and Russian 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 translat ion of these documents is available with the Secretariat for consultation.