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ORGANIZATION  WT/ACC/KAZ/60/Rev.2 
30 October 2006 
 (06-5223) 
Working Party on the  
Accession of Kazakhstan Original:   English 
 
 
 
ACCESSION OF KAZAKHSTAN 
 
Information on Progress of the Plan of Measures of the Republic of Kazakhstan  
for 2004-2006 for Bringing of the National Legislation on Standardization  
and Certification in Compliance with the WTO Agreement on  
Technical Barriers to trade (TBT)  
(October 2005 – October 2006)  
 
Revision  
 
 
 The following submission, dated 25 October 2006, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.   
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1.1  
 
I - II quarters 
 
 
 
III - IV quarters Elaboration of priority  technical regulations 
(general): 
 
- On Baby Food; 
- On Safety of Toys; 
- On Safety in Construction; 
- On Industrial Safety; 
- On Fire Safety; 
- On Safety of Machinery and Equipment; 
- On Safety of Chemical Products; - On Non-Defence Weapon. Articles 1, 2 of the Agreement on 
Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT 
Agreement) require to establish the system 
of technical regulations, which will set 
compulsory safety requirements, 
harmonized with international standards 
and recommendations. 1. Amendments in 33 effective laws were elaborated jointly with 
the Governmental bodies with a view to bring them into conformity 
with the Law "On Technical Regulating", including the following: 
 
- "On Fire Safety", 
- "On State Control of Sales of  Separate Type s of Weapons", 
- "On Architectural, City Planning and Construction Activity in 
the Republic of Kazakhstan", 
- "On Industrial Safety at Dangerous Production Objects". 
 Specified amendments were introduced to the Parliament as a single 
draft law. 
 
2.  The following Draft Laws were developed: 
 
- "On Food Safety", where the issues of baby food, drinking water 
and foodstuff were included; 
- "On Electromagnetic Compatibility"; 
- "On Safety of Toys"; 
- "On Safety of Chemical Products"; 
- "On Safety of Machinery and Equipment". 
1.2 I - IV quarters Elaboration of the specific technical 
regulations. With the view to bring into conformity 
with Article 2 of TBT Agreement.  Draft Action Plan of Elaboration of the Specific Tec hnical Regulations 
was worked out jointly with the Governmental bodies on 2007-2009, 
which includes 104 technical regulations to be adopted by the Decrees 
of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Plan was approved 
by the Interministerial Commission for the implementation of 
transition to the system of technical regulation. Projects of technical 
regulations were elaborated and sent to Governmental bodies for 
comments: 
 
- "On Modular Approach in the sphere of Conformance 
evaluation": 
- "On Safety of Lifts", 
- "On Safety of Material-Handling Equipment".  
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1.3 Within the year Negotiations  on accession of Kazakhstan to 
the International Association on Accreditation 
of Test Laboratories (ILAC).  Foreign consultants gave provisiona lly estimation of the accreditation 
system in Kazakhstan which will assist to integration of the 
accreditation authority to the international mechanism of mutual 
recognition. It is envi saged that international experts will make 
preliminary estimation of the ac creditation system in 2007.   
 
There are 169 entities on conformance evaluation and 400 testing 
laboratories accredited in the Kazakhstan's national system working in 
the sphere of conformance evaluation.  Sixty-six testing laboratories 
were accredited as complying with ST RK 17025-2001 "Main Requirements to the Competence of Testing and Calibrating 
Laboratories".  Starting from September 2005 the accreditation is 
conducted only in accordance with ST RK 17025.-2001. 
1.4 Within the year Negotiations with WTO Members to enter into 
agreements on mutual recognition of 
conformance evaluation results.  The participation was taken in the 2nd meeting of the group of experts 
on standardization, conformity  assessment, accreditation and 
metrology. 
1.5 Within the year Participation in elaboration of regional models 
of technical regulations within the framework 
of the Intergovernmental Council of CIS 
countries on Standardiz ation, Metrology and 
Certification (IGC).  Within the framework of cooperatio n with CIS countries, Kazakhstan 
initiated and drafted technical regul ations "On Grain" and "On Petrol 
and Diesel".  Draft regulations we re submitted to CIS countries for 
comments. 
1.6 Within the year Participation in elaboration and harmonization 
of the models of Nationa l technical regulations 
within the framework of Eurasian Economic 
Community (EurAsEC). 
  The Committee on Technical Regulation, Veterinary and 
Phytosanitary Requirements and Measures elaborated the Draft 
Recommendations to the EurAsEC Standard Structure of the 
Technical Regulations.  The Draft was approved by the EurAsEC 
Integration Committee and included into the agenda of the session of 
the EurAsEC Intergovernmental Council, which will take place in 
October 2006. 
1.7 In accordance 
with working 
schedule  Participation in the working group sessions of 
international technical committees in 
elaborating and approval of standards.  
 In accordance with Article 2.6 TBT 
Agreement, WTO Members whenever 
possible shall take full participation in 
preparation of international standards for commodities by relevant international 
bodies in respect of which the technical 
regulations were adopter or are intend to 
be adopted. Participation was taken in the 2n d and 3rd sessions of ISO Working 
group on elaboration of the standard 26000 on social responsibility. 
(Vienna City and Lisbon City). 
  
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2.1 I (II) half year On-job studying the experience of other 
countries:  
 
- models of conformity assessment 
procedures.   The experience of Slovenia in application of harmonized standards, 
directives of new and old approach es was studied.  The experience in 
elaboration and implementation of technical regulations on 
electromagnetic compatibility and machinery within the framework of 
TACIS Project "Assistance to the Accession of Kazakhstan to the 
WTO:  Harmonization of  Technical Regulations and Standards" was 
studied as well.     
2.2 Within the year Improvement of the SPS/TBT Enquiry Point 
work on the directions outlined above.  According to Article 10.1  
 
TBT Agreement, the WTO Members shall 
create the enquiry point to provide 
answers to questions and requests of other 
WTO Members, and interested parties, 
and provide related documents.  
 The Working Party for exchange of information of TBT/SPS Enquiry 
Point with the ministries and agencies on the WTO Agreements on 
Technical Barriers to the Trade, Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures 
has been established (Order No. 356 of the Committee on Metrology 
and Technical Regulating of the Minist ry of Industry and Trade of the 
RK as of 21 October 2005).  
 
The TBT/SPS Information centre ha s processed and sent 800 TBT 
notifications and 1040 SPS notificati on to the government bodies for 
the period of 9 months.  
 
Participation in the international seminars: 
 
- "WTO Agreement on application of sanitary and phytosanitary 
measures" (Vienna, Austria); 
- "Elaboration of OECD standards for agricultural products, 
international standards applic ation schemes, phytosanitary 
measures" (Tbilisi, Georgia). 
 
The workshop "Increase of the institutional capacity of the TBT/SPS 
Information Centre (Borovoe,  Republic of Kazakhstan)." 
2.4 Within the year Organizing and conducting trainings on use of 
international terminologi cal dictionaries and 
data bases, assistance  in the organizing 
translation bureau.   According to Article 10.5 TBT 
Agreement, Kazakhstan receives the 
notifications in Eng lish.  The scope and 
complexity of the translations along with 
the specific terms requires the creation of 
a service to perform qualified English –
Russian translation for the international 
organization.     The training workshops have been conducted with participation of 
international experts on the following topics:   
 
"Strategic issues to achieve compe titiveness:  introduction of quality 
management system".   
 
"Evaluation of the life cycle acco rding to ISO 14040 standards".   
 
"IEC standardization strategy"   
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2.5 Within the year To gain and translate international 
recommendations and standards 
(approximately 150) on various products, 
including the directives, defining the 
requirements for food, m eat and milk products, 
baby food, fresh vegetables and fruits, 
vehicles, toys, with the purpose to analyze and 
use as a sample, when th e technical regulations 
are elaborated.  The provisions of Article 2 and 4 and the 
Annex 3 to the TBT Agreement provide, 
that in the process of technical and 
voluntary standards elaboration, the 
members shall use the appropriate 
chapters as a base for the technical and 
voluntary standards. 200 international standards have been purchased in order to use them 
when elaborating technical standards.  
2.6 Quarterly Publication of information on reforming the 
system of the technical regulation.  Over 30 mass media publications ha ve been made on reforming the 
system of technical re gulation.  The magazine  "Uspekh" published the 
article "Technical regulation as one of the main factors for the 
effective country development".  The "Kazakhstanskaya Pravda" 
published the article "Technical regulation, creative standard". 
2.7 Within the year Workshops on the technical regulation in 
various sectors of the economy.  Under the TACIS Project "Assistance  of the Republic of Kazakhstan 
accession to the WTO:  Harmonizati on of the technical regulations 
and standards", 8 training workshops have been conducted on the EC 
New approach directives (EMC, toys, food safety, transport safety, 
legislation on the environment security and construction materials 
security). 
 The round table on food safety has been conducted with the food 
manufacturers. Over 70 workshops, round tables and 6 Days of 
Information on the Technical Regul ations have been conducted.   
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2.8 According to the 
schedule Participation in the Working Party sessions of 
the international technical committees for 
elaboration and adoption of standards. Pursuant to Article 2.6 TBT Agreement, 
the WTO Members shall play a full part, 
within the limits of their resources, in the 
preparation by appropriate international 
standardizing bodies of international 
standards for products for which they 
either have adopted, or expect to adopt, 
technical regulations.  Kazakhstan is a full member of the following ISO committees and 
subcommittees:  
 
- ISO/ ТК18 "Zinc and zinc alloys";  
- ISO/ ТК 37 "Terminology";  
- ISO/ ТК 67 "Continental shelf materials, equipment and -
 construction for the oil and gas industry";  
- ISO/ ТК 135 "Nondestructive control".  
- ISO/ ТК 176 "Quality administrative  management and quality 
control";  
- ISO/ ТК193 "Natural gas"; 
- COPOLCO (special technical committee for the consumer rights 
protection); 
- DEVCO (special committee for the developing countries 
assistance). 
- REMCO  and 7 ISO subcommittees: 
 
 - ISO/ ТК30/PC 2 "Differential pressu re measuring devices";  
 - ISO/ ТК30/PC 5 "Speed measuring methods"   
 - ISO/ ТК30/PC 7 "Volume measuring methods"   
 - ISO/ ТК135/PC 2 "The surface methods"; 
 - ISO/ ТК135/ PC 3 "Acoustic methods"; 
 - ISO/ ТК135/ PC 4 "Foucault current methods"; 
 - ISO/ ТК135/ PC 7 "Specialis ts qualification". 
 
As an observer of the 4 committees:  
 
- ISO/ ТК 30 "Flow measurement of the liquid in pipe lines"; 
- ISO/ ТК 46 "Information and documentation"  
- ISO/ ТК 183 "Copper, lead, ores and lead concentration"  
- ISO/ ТК 219 "Floor coating" an d 2 ISO subcommittees: 
 
 - ISO/ ТК67/ PC 2 "Pipelines"; 
 - ISO/ ТК67/ PC 7 "Offshore structures".  
 
Took part in the 2nd and 3rd session of the ISO Working Party for the 
elaboration of the standard 26000 on social responsibility.  
 
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