Amendments to the Current Legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the Period from October 20 through November 30, 2003

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According to our electronic legal library, about 70 normative acts were adopted in the Republic of Kazakhstan October-November 2003.

This Information Memorandum covers the most important from the practical perspective or interesting, in our view, normative acts.

Laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan

1. Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 490-2, On the State Support of Property Monitoring in the Strategic Economy Sectors, dated October 4, 2003

[The above normative act determines main requirements to the monitoring, data collection, analysis, assessment, and forecasting of the state of the property structure and management effectiveness of the property objects in the strategic economy sectors that include production and processing of fuel and energy minerals (coal, oil, gas, uranium, and metal ore), machine-building, chemical industry, transport and communication, production and distribution of electric power, and sectors producing products of military-industrial purposed.];

2. Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 488-2, On Amending the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan On Grain, dated October 13, 2003

[The above normative act introduces amendments related to the concepts, including the definition of the holder of the grain receipt and the pledge certificate, etc.];

3. Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 496-2, On Ratification of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the United States of America About the Establishments of the Protected Communication Line Between the Center for the Control of the Reduction of Arms and Ensuring Inspection Activities Under the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Center for Nuclear Hazard Decrement of the United States of America, dated November 15, 2003;

4. Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 497-2, On Ratification of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Swiss Federal Council On the International Passenger and Cargo Transportation, dated November 18, 2003;

5. Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 498-2, On Ratification of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Greek Republic On the International Automobile Passenger and Cargo Transportation, dated November 18, 2003;

6. Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 499-2, On Ratification of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the Italian Republic On Mutual Regulation of the International Automobile Passenger and Cargo Transportation dated November 18, 2003; and

7. Other Laws.

Decrees of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan

1. Decree of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 1039, On Some Issues of Licensing of Activities Related to Environmental Design, Normalization and Works in the Field of Ecological Expertise, dated October 8, 2003

[The above decree approves qualification requirements to licensing of the activities related to environmental design, normalization, and works in the field of ecological expertise.]

2. Decree of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 1054, On the Approval of Criteria of the Sufficient Good Processing, dated October 15, 2003;

[The above document identifies the criteria of the sufficient processing of goods used for the identification of the country of origin in accordance with the customs legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.];

3. Decree of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 1067, On Amending Decree of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 23 of January 10, 2002, dated October 21, 2003

[The above decree approves a new List of types of works (services) in the field of architectural, town-planning, and constructional activities subject to licensing.];

and other Decrees.

Acts of the Ministries and Agencies of the Republic of Kazakhstan

1. Order of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources No. 177, On the Approval of the Rules of Industrial Safety During Pumping of Hydrocarbon Gases in the Efficient Beds of Hydrocarbon Fields of the Republic of Kazakhstan, dated September 25, 2003;

2. Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 365, On the Approval of Forms, Rules, and Term of Declaring of Productions and Turnover of Specific Types of Petroleum Products, dated October 8, 2003l registered with the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan on October 28, 2003, No. 3544;

3. Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan No, 366, On the Approval of the Rules for Compiling the Accompanying Notes, dated October 8, 2003; registered with the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan on October 28, 3004, No. 2543;

4. Order of the Ministry of Health Care of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 766, On the Approval of the Rules for the Performance of Mandatory Medical Check-Ups of the specific groups of population, dated October 20, 2003

[The above order approves the Rules for the performance of medical check-up of the groups of population working in the service sector that represent the greatest danger for the infection of surrounding with infectious and parasitic diseases.];

and other acts.

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