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ORGANIZATION  WT/ACC/KAZ/61 
3 June 2005 
 
 (05-2285) 
Working Party on the 
Accession of Kazakhstan Original:   English 
 
 
 
ACCESSION OF KAZAKHSTAN 
 
Information on the Progress of the Plan of Action of the Republic of Kazakhstan  
to Bring the Existing Sanitary-Epidemiological Welfare, Veterinary and Plants Quarantine  
System in Conformity with the Provisions of the WTO Agreement on the Application of  
Sanitary and Phytosaniary (SPS) Measures in 2004-2006  
 
 
 The following submission, dated 27 May 2005, is  being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of the Republic of Kazakhstan. 
  
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2004 
I.  General organizational activities 
1. Quarter 1  Single Enquiry Point on TBT/SPS was created for 
interaction with the WTO Members on TBT and SPS measures Single Enquiry Point on TBT/SPS was created by the tripartite joint 
order of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (No. 145 as of 16 June 2004), Ministry of Agriculture (No. 327 as of 23 June 2004) 
and Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan (No. 528 as of 
7 July 2004) "On Creation of the Single Enquiry point for Interaction with the WTO Members on Technical Barriers to Trade, Sanitary and 
Phytosanitary Measures". 
II.  Ensuring the sanitary and epid emiological safety of population 
2. Quarter 4  Amendments and addenda to the Law of the Republic of 
Kazakhstan "On Sanitary and Epidemiological Safety of Population" Ministry of Health of RK elaborated and submitted to the Government 
of RK draft law "On Making Amendments and Addenda to the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Sanitary and Epidemiological 
Welfare". 
 To assess the conformity of the draf t law with the requirements of the 
WTO Agreement on SPS in ternational experts of  the WTO Secretariat 
and UNCTAD were involved, they gave a satisfactory assessment of 
the draft law. 
3. Quarter 4  Defining the list of the first priority products, which require 
upgrade of tools and equipment. Defining the list and deadlines of opening of profile 
laboratories requiring sanitary regulation.  
  
 
  
 
  These activities were outlined in the Plan of Measures to Implement the 
National Program on Health Protection Reforming and Development in the Republic of Kazakhstan for 200 5-2010 approved by Government 
Resolution No. 1050 of 13 October 2004. 
 They elaborated the draft model nom enclature of laboratory tests at 
various levels of national sanitary-epidemiological expert examination 
in accordance with intern ational standards, featuring the list of products 
to be tested. 
 
In 2005 it is planned to create a reference laboratory for diagnosis of bacterial and viral infections on the account of the national budget on 
the basis of the Kazakh Scientific Centre on Quarantine and Zoogenous 
Infections and the National Sanitary-Epidemiological Station.  
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4. Quarter 3-4 Systematization of the national documents on sanitary-
epidemiological standardizing regulating the requirements to quality and safety of goods in circulation.  
 Documents on sanitary-epidemiological standardizing were systemized. 
By 2010 it is planned to elaborate 210 first priority standards (norms). Since 2005 onward 35 first priority standards (norms) will be 
elaborated every year. 
 In development of standards they take into account the food product 
hygiene related general principles of Code Alimentarius, European 
Union’s directives, ISO, as well as treaties on sanitary-epidemiological 
safety of population and food product safety. 
2.2. Equipping laboratories, trai ning and re-training personnel 
5. Quarter 4  Assessment of the material and technical condition of the 
existing sanitary-epidemiological service laboratories. 
 These activities were outlined in the Plan of Measures to Implement the 
National Program on Health Protection Reforming and Development in 
the Republic of Kazakhstan for 200 5-2010 approved by Government 
Resolution No. 1050 of 13 October 2004.  As the result of the market 
research to assess the condition of th e material and technical base of the 
sanitary-epidemiological laboratories, it is planned to upgrade 16 oblast, national cities and capital level sanitary-epidemiological expert 
centres, and 184 rayon level sanitary-epidemiological expert centres on 
the account of direct transfers from the national budget in the period of 
2006-2009. 
6. During the year Training the sanitary -epidemiological service specialists in: 
 - organization of national sanitary-epidemiological 
supervision of goods circulation at all phases: 
-  organization and implementation of epidemiological 
supervision with the purpose to assess the risk of 
appearance of infectious, parasitic and somatic 
diseases and poisonings; 
-  international practice in standardizing, certification 
and metrology; 
-  organization of profile and complex laboratory tests 
(researches). Kazakh School of Public H ealth Protection, Program of Food Safety in 
Europe, World Health Organization in cooperation with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO): 
 
- organized and hold two-year training.   
This project provides for training of public health protection specialists 
from the Central Asian countries and Kazakhstan in the following learning modules: 
 
- food product legislation; - food microbiology and laboratory methods; 
- epidemiological supervision over diseases of food origin; 
- monitoring of food chemical contamination and laboratory 
methods; 
- risk analysis and system of critical  point risk analysis as the risk 
management method.  
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III.  Veterinary 
3.1.  Equipping laboratories, tr aining and re-training personnel 
7 During the year Material and techni cal equipment of the state enterprise 
"National Centre for Monitoring of Laboratory Diagnostics Reference and Methodology in Veterinary". Subject to the National Agrarian Food Program for 2003-2005 in 2004 
the State Enterprise "National Centre for Monitoring of Laboratory Diagnostics Reference and Methodology in Veterinary" purchased on 
bid basis 29 items of laboratory equipment, laboratory furniture, office 
furniture and equipment for the total of 17,118 million tenges (US$ 128,700). 
 
They purchased Niva car based mobile laboratory. 
8 During the year Training specialists in  the State Enterprise "National Center 
for Monitoring of Laboratory Diagnostics Reference and 
Methodology in Veterinary" (Astana City). 
9 During the year Training specialists in the All-Russia Research Institute on 
Certification and Standardizing of Veterinary Medicines (Moscow City) With the purpose to learn new methods of diagnosis of infectious 
animal diseases they held workshops in the "National Veterinary 
Laboratory", Astana City, involving 68 leading national scientists and 
veterinary laboratory specialists in August 2004.  Tow persons also had been taught by the principle of Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) in 
Ulken Balyk Ltd and Karatal Balyk Ltd in Kirov village, Astana City.   
IV.  Plant quarantine 
4.1.  Organizational activities 
10 Quarter 1, 2004 Joining the Convention on Creation of the European and 
Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization made in Paris on 18 April 1951 Government Resolution No. 262 "On Joining the Convention on 
Creation of the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization" of 3 March 2004 was adopted. 
11 During the year Preparation of documents and implementing procedures 
required for joining the International Plant Protection 
Convention Ministry of Agriculture of RK is preparing the documents and 
implementing the procedures required for joining the International 
Plant Protection Convention. 
4.2.  Equipping laboratories, tr aining and re-training personnel 
12 During the year Maintenance and material-technical equipping of: 
 
-  national quarantine laboratories; 
-  national introduction-quarantine nursery farms. Subject to the National Agrarian Food Program for 2003-2005 the 
national quarantine laboratory was equipped with up-to-date 
equipment.  The national introduction-quarantine farm of fruits was 
equipped for the total 865,000 tenges (US$ 6,500); the national introduction-quarantine farm of crops was equipped for the total 
5,224 tenges (US$ 39,300). 
13 During the year Re-training and advanced training of plant quarantine 
inspectors in the national quarantine laboratory (Almaty City). During 2004 over 40 plant quarantine specialists have been trained in 
the national quarantine laboratory. 
 
 
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