On the ratification of the Agreement between the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republic of Belarus, the Kyrgyz Republic and the Russian Federation on deepening Integration in the Economic and Humanitarian Fields
Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated May 15, 1996 No. 1-1
RCPI's note! The Agreement was terminated in respect of the Republic of Kazakhstan by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated December 24, 2014 No. 266-V.
To ratify the Agreement between the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republic of Belarus, the Kyrgyz Republic and the Russian Federation on deepening Integration in the economic and Humanitarian fields, signed in Moscow on March 29, 1996.
President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
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Agreement between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Republic of Belarus, The Kyrgyz Republic and the Russian Federation on deepening integration in the economic and humanitarian fields
The footnote. It was registered with the UN Secretariat on May 1, 1998. The Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and the Russian Federation, hereinafter referred to as the Parties, based on the historically established ties of their peoples, their desire for further integration and comprehensive rapprochement, realizing the need for coordinated use of the material and intellectual potentials of their states, recognizing the state independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Parties, Confirming their participation in the Commonwealth of Independent States and their readiness to carry out integration processes within its framework, guided by generally recognized norms and principles of international law, we have agreed as follows:
GOALS AND PRINCIPLES
Article 1 In order to create a Community of integrated States in the future, the Parties decided to direct joint efforts to gradually deepen the integration of the parties to this Treaty in the economy, science, education, culture, social sphere and other areas, while respecting the sovereignty of the Parties, the principles of equality and mutual benefit, the inviolability of existing state borders between them, non-interference in each other's internal affairs.
Article 2 The main goals of integration are: consistent improvement of living conditions, protection of individual rights and freedoms, achievement of social progress; ensuring sustainable democratic development of states; formation of a single economic space providing for the effective functioning of a common market for goods, services, capital and labor, development of unified transport, energy, information systems; development of minimum standards of social protection of citizens; creation of equal educational opportunities and access to scientific and cultural achievements; harmonization of legislation; coordination of foreign policy, ensuring a worthy place in the international arena; joint protection of the external borders of the Parties, the fight against crime and terrorism.
ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Article 3 The parties coordinate the main directions, stages and deadlines of the economic reforms being carried out, create the necessary conditions for the functioning of the common market, and provide equally favorable conditions for the free economic activity of the economic entities of their states. The Parties shall ensure the equal right to acquire, own, use and dispose of property in the territory of any of these States in accordance with their national legislation. The parties are creating a single model regulatory framework for civil legislation and state regulation of the economy.
Article 4 The Parties shall pursue a coordinated pricing policy that excludes price discrimination against the economic entities of the Parties, and apply free (contractual) prices prevailing in their domestic markets. In 1996, the Parties completed the creation of a single customs territory with the provision of a common management system.
Article 5 The parties agree on a structural policy, bearing in mind the creation of industrial and agricultural economic complexes based on the complementarity of economies, maximizing the benefits of a rational division of labor.
Article 6 The Parties jointly develop and implement a system of state support measures for the development of industrial cooperation, encouragement of industrial investments, including subsidizing targeted programs and projects, the creation of facilities of common interest, and encourage the formation of transnational associations.
Article 7 The parties are consistently strengthening policy coordination in the monetary, monetary and financial spheres, and creating an effective payment and settlement system. At the initial stage, the Parties shall achieve a significant reduction in inflation and stabilization of exchange rates of national currencies, full convertibility of national currencies, and ensure equal access of the Parties' resident entities to the currency markets of the Contracting States. The central banks of the Parties will establish an interbank union for mutual consultations and coordination of ongoing measures. In the subsequent stages, the Parties will move towards common standards and practices for regulating banking activities and, depending on the degree of integration achieved, will introduce a single currency.
Article 8 The parties will create a single scientific and technological space, ensure cooperation in conducting fundamental and applied scientific research, including the organization of joint scientific work on issues of common interest.
Article 9 The parties are increasing cooperation in the field of environmental protection, including the development and adoption of common environmental safety standards, and are taking joint measures to prevent and eliminate the consequences of accidents, natural disasters, nuclear and environmental disasters.
cooperation IN THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL FIELDS
Article 10 The parties are pursuing a coordinated social policy, harmonizing national social protection systems, and gradually equalizing pension levels, benefits, and benefits for war and labor veterans, the disabled, and low-income families.
Article 11 The parties will create conditions for the preservation and strengthening of a common cultural space based on historically established ties and business contacts between creative unions and associations, cultural, literary and artistic figures, and the preservation of ethnic and linguistic identity of peoples.
Article 12 The parties define an interstate education strategy, develop joint programs for student education, training and retraining of specialists. The parties mutually recognize diplomas, certificates of education, and relevant documents on awarding academic degrees and academic titles without legalization.
Article 13 Citizens of the Parties permanently residing in the territory of other States Parties to this Treaty shall be granted the legal status established by their national legislation, bilateral and multilateral treaties; a simplified procedure for the acquisition of citizenship by citizens of the Parties is provided.
COOPERATION IN OTHER FIELDS
Article 14 Taking into account the accumulated experience of cooperation, the Parties are improving the mechanism for coordinating actions in planning and implementing foreign policy, creating and strengthening a common system for ensuring security and protection of state borders.
Article 15 The parties coordinate legislative work, create model legislative acts, exchange legal information, provide legal assistance in civil, family and criminal matters, promote the development of legal science and the training of legal personnel.
Article 16 The Parties ensure close cooperation between law enforcement and other competent authorities, join forces in the fight against ordinary and organized crime, terrorism, illegal trafficking in weapons and drugs, smuggling, illegal immigration and emigration, the production and use of forged payment and other documents, any actions that endanger public safety, as well as the enforcement of court decisions.
INTEGRATION MANAGEMENT BODIES
Article 17 In order to achieve the objectives of this Treaty, the Parties establish joint integration management bodies: the Interstate Council, the Integration Committee, and the Interparliamentary Committee. Each of these bodies acts within the limits of the powers defined for it by this Agreement and the relevant Regulations on this body.
Article 18 The Interstate Council is the supreme governing body of integration. It includes heads of State, heads of Government, foreign ministers, as well as the Chairman of the Integration Committee with an advisory vote. The Interstate Council is headed by a Chairman elected from among the heads of State of the Parties for a one-year term on a rotating basis. The Interstate Council develops a strategy for cooperation, defines its main stages, makes appropriate decisions and monitors their implementation, approves regulations on integration management bodies and the procedure for their financing. The costs of maintaining integration management bodies are financed by the Parties in fixed amounts and allocated exclusively for these purposes.
Article 19 The Integration Committee is a permanent executive body that takes and implements measures necessary to achieve the goals and objectives of integration defined by this Agreement. The Integration Committee consists of the first deputy heads of Government of each of the Parties, as well as ministers responsible for cooperation with the CIS countries, economy and finance of the Parties. The Integration Committee is headed by a Chairman appointed by the Interstate Council on a rotating basis. The Integration Committee: through the Governments of the Parties monitors the implementation of decisions of the integration management bodies; ensures, within its competence, the implementation of decisions of the Interstate Council, integration programs, treaties and agreements in force between the Parties; establishes relevant interstate commissions and committees, attracts independent experts in various fields of economics, law, management and other areas of integration.
Article 20 Information, logistical and organizational support for the activities of the Interstate Council and other integration management bodies is provided by the staff of the Integration Committee, formed on a parity basis. Integration management bodies are located, by agreement, in the capitals of the States parties to the Treaty.
Article 21 In order to highlight the practical experience and results of the integration of the Parties, to publish official legal acts and other documents of the governing bodies, the Integration Committee publishes a printed publication, the Bulletin of Integration Development.
Article 22 The Inter-Parliamentary Committee is a body of inter-parliamentary cooperation and is formed on a parity basis from parliamentarians delegated by the parliaments of the Parties. In order to bring together and harmonize the legislation of the Parties, the Interparliamentary Committee, within the limits of its powers: adopts model acts on the basis of which acts of national legislation are developed; makes proposals on the development of the legal framework for integration; participates in other forms of legislative activity provided for by the Regulations on the Interparliamentary Committee. The recommendation acts of the Interparliamentary Committee are proposed for consideration in the parliaments of the Parties in accordance with the procedure established by their national legislation.
FINANCIAL AND LEGAL SUPPORT FOR INTEGRATION
Article 23
The Integration Committee annually develops specific proposals on financial and budgetary issues of integration and submits them to the Interstate Council for consideration.
Article 24 The Interstate Council has the right to make decisions that are binding on the bodies and organizations of the Parties that ensure their direct implementation, or decisions that are subject to transformation into the national legislation of the Parties. The Parties shall ensure the responsibility of officials of their public authorities for the implementation of the provisions of this Agreement and the decisions of the joint integration management bodies. Disagreements arising during the implementation of this Agreement shall be resolved through consultations between the Parties, if necessary, by the Interstate Council on the recommendation of the Integration Committee.
Article 25 The provisions of this Treaty do not limit the economic and political relations of each of the Parties with other countries of the world community, do not prejudice the international legal personality of each of the Parties and do not affect their obligations under previously adopted international treaties and agreements, including within the framework of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
FINAL PROVISIONS Article 26 This Treaty shall be applied temporarily from the date of signature and shall enter into force from the date of delivery to the depositary, which is recognized by the Russian Federation, of notifications confirming the fulfillment by the Parties of the internal procedures necessary for the entry into force of the Treaty.
Article 27 This Treaty is open for accession by other States that share its objectives and principles and accept in full the obligations arising from the Treaty. The Parties to the Treaty, recognizing the possibility of multi-level integration within the framework of the Commonwealth of Independent States, may sign bilateral and multilateral agreements providing for more advanced integration relations in political, economic and other fields.
Article 28 This Agreement is valid for five years and is then automatically extended for the next five years, unless either Party declares its desire to terminate it at least twelve months before the expiration of this Agreement. Each Party has the right to withdraw from this Agreement by notifying the depositary in writing at least twelve months in advance. Done in Moscow on March 29, 1996, in four originals in the Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Russian languages, all texts being equally authentic. The original copies of the Treaty shall be kept in the Russian Federation, which shall send a certified copy to each State Party to this Treaty.
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Republic of Kazakhstan
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