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WT/ACC/KAZ/54 
7 September 2004 
 
 (04-3727) 
Working Party on the 
Accession of Kazakhstan Original:   English 
 
 
 
ACCESSION OF KAZAKHSTAN 
 
Information on Implementation of Kazakhs tan's Action Plan for 2004-2006 on  
Harmonization of the National Standardi zation and Certification Legislation 
with the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade 
 
 
 The following submission, dated 2 September 2004,  is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of the Republic of Kazakhstan. 
 
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No. Timetable (Year, 
quarter) Type of action Implementation 
Year 2004 
1.  Improvement of legislation in the field of standardization and certification  
1.1 Quarters I-II   Development and adoption of the Draft Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan 
"On technical regulation" : 
 
 - Carrying out the evaluation of the draft law and issuing of 
recommendations aimed at bringing the legislation of the Republic 
of Kazakhstan into conformity with the provisions of the WTO 
Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT Agreement);  
      -  Amendment into the dr aft law based on the recommendations and 
preparation of comments on clarification of its provisions.  The Working Party comprising of the repres entatives of all branch ministries and 
public associations – manufacturers, em ployers, consumer rights protection 
organization – prepared the Draft Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On 
Technical Regulation".  In order to do the conformity assessment of the Draft Law with the TBT 
Agreement, the international experts fro m the European Union's TACIS Project, 
the WTO Secretariat, UNCTAD, and Pr agma USAID were attracted. The 
international experts evaluated the Draft Law as satisfactory, making a number of 
recommendations for further developmen t of the Draft Law and suggesting 
several changes to so me of its articles. 
Currently there is an undergoing work on the draft law in accordance with the 
received remarks and suggestions.  
1.2 Quarters I-II  Carrying out analysis of the cu rrent legislative acts in order to determine the 
list of the regulatory legal acts to be amended or added due to the adoption of 
the Law "On technical regulation" including  
Priority legislative acts; 
Other legislative acts in the context of the economic sectors of Kazakhstan  The existing legal acts have been analyz ed in order to determine the list of 
necessary legal acts on technical regulation. 
On the basis of this analysis, the draf t Program on Development and Revision of 
the Legal Acts on Techni cal Regulation for 2005-2007 has been developed, 
which will be submitted to the Government  of Kazakhstan after adoption of the 
Law "On Technical Regul ation" for approval. 
According to this draft Program it is nece ssary to develop first 20 priority laws on 
technical regulation, including the followi ng laws:  On Environmental Safety; On 
Children Food Products; On the Safety of Medical and Diagnostic Equipment; On 
Safety in Construction; On Industria l Safety; On Electr omagnetic Safety. 
Besides, it is necessary to adopt a bout 100 special (by certain product groups) 
legal acts at the level of Government Resolutions. 
1.3 Quarters III - IV  
 
 
 
 
 Development of the regulatory legal ac ts to enforce the Law "On technical 
regulation": 
 
 - "On authorized body on technical regulation in the Republic of 
Kazakhstan". 
 - "On order of establishment and activity of the E xpert Council on 
Technical Regulation". 
 - "On organization and execution of the state control of complying 
with the technical regulations". 
 - "On specifics in developing lega l acts on technical regulations"   A draft Program has been prepared for implementation of the Law "On Technical 
Regulation", which provides for adoption of  by-laws in the form of Resolutions 
of the Government of Kazakhstan that ensure implementation of separate 
provisions of the stated law. 
1.4 Quarter IV  Development of the priority technical regulations (general): 
 
 - On quality and safety of the food products  
 - On seed and planting stock  
 - On oil and oil products The Law of Kazakhstan "On Food Products Quality and Safety" has been adopted 
in April 2004. 
Draft laws "On Seeds and Planting Stoc k" and "On Oil and Oil Products" are 
under development.  
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quarter) Type of action Implementation 
1.5 Quarter IV  Making changes and additions to  the Laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan due 
to the adoption of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhs tan "On technical 
regulation"  A draft Program on development and re vision of legal acts on technical 
regulation, which provides fo r changes in 30 laws of th e Republic of Kazakhstan, 
including: "On Veterinary", "On Envi ronment Protection", "On Sanitary-
Epidemiological Welfare", "On Plan ts Protection", "On Labour", "On 
Architectural, Town Planning, and Cons truction Activity in the Republic of 
Kazakhstan", and some others, has been developed. 
1.6 During the course 
of the year  Participation in the development of the interstate models of technical 
regulations within the framework of harmonization of the national technical 
regulations of the Intergovernmental Council on Standardization, Metrology 
and Certification of the CIS states (IGC). The 25th Interstate Council adopted the Program for Transnational Models of 
Technical Regulations, incl uding 27 new developments. 
Kazakhstan was assigned developing the m odels of technica l regulations "On 
Grain" (deadline in 2005) and "Requireme nts for Petroleum and Diesel Fuel" 
(deadline in 2007). 
1.7 During the course 
of year  Participation in the development and harmonization of th e models of the 
national technical regula tions within the Eurasian Economical Community 
(EurAsEC) including special technical regulation on safety  of perfume and 
cosmetic products.  In the framework of the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) the draft 
Agreement on the Basics of EurAsEC Members Technical Regulations 
Harmonization, the Procedures for their Development and Adoption is 
undergoing a revision. 
2.  Development and harmonization of the national system of standardization and certification with the international requiremen ts  
2.1 Quarter IV  Development and revision of the basic standards of the national systems of 
standardization, certification, accreditation and ensuring uniformity of 
measurements in aims of brining it into  conformity with the requirements of 
the Kazakh Law "On technical regulation".  By the end of this year, 27 standards of the national standardiz ation, certification 
and accreditation systems will be revised pursuant to the requirements of the 
Draft Law "On Technical Regulation". 
2.2 Quarter IV  Development and implementation of the se ctoral programs (plans) of 
harmonization of the standards with the international standards including 
those: 
 
 - on products, works and services of the real sector; 
 - on potential export products. Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Transport and Communication and Ministry 
of Energy and Mineral Resources adopted  sectoral programs for harmonization of 
the national standards. 
2.3 Quarter IV  Improvement of the network of  test centres. Purchase and provision of the 
mobile laboratories equipped with the utensils and measurement tools.   
2.4 During the course 
of the year  Carrying out work to stimulate th e implementation of the quality and 
environment protection management. 
Carrying out applied scientific res earch on implementation of quality and 
environment protection management; 
Publishing of the recommendations and othe r materials in scientific – technical 
magazines and mass media; 
Development and implementation of th e quality and environment protection 
management systems in the real sector enterprises which comply with ISO 
9000 and 14000, the food industry, quality management system of the food 
products based on the system  of the HACCP principles; 
Establishment of the technical committee on standardization on quality 
management and internati onal cooperation with the or ganizations in the field 
of quality management.    In accordance with the Ordinance of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan No. 28-r 
of 6 February 2004 the Action Plan for Transition of the Economy Sectors to the 
International ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 Standards has been adopted. 
At present 192 enterprises have certified the quality assurance systems in the 
national certification system, of whic h 5 certified environment management 
systems; 144 more enterprises in Kazakhstan are developing their quality 
assurance systems. 
11 quality assurance system certification bodies have the accreditation of the 
National Certification System of the Republic of Kazakhstan; moreover, 10 
foreign organizations work in  Kazakhstan in this field. 
The Draft Methodical Recommendations on conducting the internal audit has 
been prepared. 
2.5 On the schedule of 
works of the 
international ISO/TC Participation at the meetings of worki ng groups of the inte rnational technical 
committees at the stage of developing of the standards, expertise of the 
standards and voting on them. The Work Group 8 "Oil and Gas Industry.  Remote Shores.  Arctic 
Constructions" ISO/TC 67 held a meeting in Astana. 
  
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3.  Information and assistance  
3.1 Quarters III- IV  Training of the Kazakh speci alists in development and implementation of the 
technical regulations, organization of their training in foreign countries.  Under a TACIS Project it is planned to st udy the Slovak Republic's experience in 
development of technical regulations, to hold 8 workshops in Kazakhstan for 
specialists/managers on development of t echnical regulations for certain product 
groups, on Enquiry Point activity, on quality control and on metrology. 
3.2 Quarter IV  Learning of other countries' experiences by the Kazakh specialists in the 
following fields:  
Creation and implementation of the tec hnical regulations in the field of 
electromagnetic compatibility  Under the European Union's TACIS project "Support of the WTO Accession" it 
is planned to train several Kazakh speci alists on developmen t and implementation 
of the technical regulations in elec tromagnetic compatibility in 2005. 
 
3.3 Quarters II- IV  Conducting seminars on the is sues of the technical regulation in different 
branches and sectors of the economy in Kazakhstan. This year 2 regional (oblast level)  conferences a round table with the 
Confederation of Employers and 3 Information Days (Astana and Almaty cities) 
on technical regulation issues were held  in Ust-Kamenogorsk and Taldy-Korgan 
cities. 
3.4 Quarterly  Preparation and publication of the materials on reforming of the technical 
regulation system in  mass media.   In order to clarify issues related to the accession of Kazakhstan to the World 
Trade Organization and transition to the international model of technical 
regulation, the Action Plan on Work  with Mass Media has been adopted. 
Moreover, workshops are regularly held involving representatives of branch 
ministries, public associations, employ ers, and consumer rights protection 
organization for clarification of issues related to the transition to the international 
system of techni cal regulation. 
 
The web-site of the Standardization, Metrology, and Certification Committee 
regularly publishes materials on reforms in the techni cal regulation system of 
Kazakhstan.  
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3.5 During the course 
of the year Development and improvement of the in formation centre on interaction with 
the WTO including provision of the cent re with the equipment and software. 
Technical equipping of the Centre w ith the telecommunication and office 
equipment for functioning of the Automa tic Information System (AIS) for on-
line interaction with the WTO Secretariat and WTO member-countries: 
 
Data basis server for creation of the storage and copying systems  
Radio Ethernet for creation of the uniform local network  
Procurement of the Software and financ ing of the expenses for allocation of 
the channels for creation and functioning of the local automatic information 
systems of the Centre; Kazakhstan's interagency corporative network; 
Oracle Database Enterprise Edition – corporate edition of the server for the 
projects of  large a nd medium scale system; 
Delphi 7 Studio Enterprise Edition – co mplete tool for development of the 
corporate proposals starting from design up to un-crunching by architecture 
managed by model (MDA) that allows in tegration of  modelling, development 
and un-crunching of the attachments of the systems of electronic business.   
CRYSTAL REPORTS 9, Advanced, So lution Suite, Full Product w/CBT, 
Crystal Care (5 Pack) – tool  for creation of the reports. 
Procurement of complete and bibliogra phic data bases on t echnical regulations 
and international standards for harmonization of the technical regulations and 
creation of their data bases.  
 
Training and consulting on organization of the remote access, archiving of the 
data bases, application of up-to-date in formational technolog ies of the Centre. In 2003 2 software programs were purchased. 
In 2004 it is planned to purchase Oracle  database manageme nt software, to 
develop 3 local AIS (14 AIS by the end of  2008), and to join the international 
network ISONET for quicker interaction. 
3.6 During the course 
of the year Organization and conduction of training w ith respect to the application of the 
adopted international termi nology dictionaries and data  bases, assistance in 
establishing the translation centres in Kazakhstan. Under the European Union's TACIS Project "Support of WTO Accession" it is 
planned to organize and hold workshops to train specialist to use internationally 
accepted terminology databases as well as to  assist in organizing the translation 
bureau in 2005. 
3.7 During the course 
of the year Studying the work experience of the fore ign information centres on interaction 
with the WTO by the Kazakh specialists: 
 
The WTO Secretariat  – 2 persons; 
The ISO Central secretariat – 2 persons. Under the European Union's TACIS Project "Support of WTO Accession" it is 
planned to send 2 Kazakh specialists abro ad to study the experience of foreign 
enquiry points for interaction with the WT O Secretariat and 2 specialists to the 
ISO Central Secretariat in 2005. 
3.8 First half of the 
year   Conducting negotiations on Kazakhstan's accession to the International 
Electrotechnical Co mmission (IEC).  The Resolution of the Government of Kazakhstan No. 456 of 23 April 2004 "On 
Accession of Kazakhstan to the Interna tional Electrotechnical  Commission" was 
adopted. 
 
The Republic of Kazakhstan applied to the IEC for associate membership through 
the Ministry of foreign affairs of Kazakhstan on 20 May 2004. 
 
 
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