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LAW No. 588 OF 9th JULY 2004 OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN CONCERNING ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY
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LAW No. 588 OF 9th JULY 2004 OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN
CONCERNING ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY
AMENDMENTS AND ADDITIONS INTRODUCED BY:
1) Law No. 125 of 31st January 2006 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning Issues of Entrepreneurship.  (Articles: 6, 19).  Effective date n/a;
2)  Law No. 136 of 11th April 2006 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan “Concerning the Electric Energy Sector”.  (Preamble, Articles:  1, 3, 5, 9 replaced, 14, 16, 17, 19, 22, 24).  Effective date n/a; 
3)  Law No. 166 of 5th July 2006 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning Issues of Natural Monopolies.  (Article 5).  Effective date n/a; 
4) Law No. 209 of 29th December 2006 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning Issues of Technical Regulation.  (Articles: 1 replaced, 3, 4, 5, Chapter 2-1 introduced:  Articles;  9-1 introduced, 9-2 introduced, 9-3 introduced; 12).  Effective date n/a;
5) Law No. 316 of 27th July 2007 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning Issues of Sectoral Regulators.  (Articles:  1, 5, 6, 7-1 introduced, 13, 14, 16).  Effective date n/a; 
6) Law No. 66 of 5th July 2008 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning Issues of Concessions.  (Article  9).  Effective date n/a; 
7) Law No. 116 of 29th December 2008 of Republic of Kazakhstan.  Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning Issues of Activities of Independent Sectoral Regulators.  (Articles: 1 replaced, 4, 5, 6, 7 replaced, 9, 10, 12, 12-1 introduced, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 22, 25).  Effective January 1, 2009;
8) Law No. 166 of 4th July 2009 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Promotion of the Use of Renewable Energy Sources. (Articles: 10, 13). Effective date n/a;
9) Law No. 178 of 10th July 2009 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Information-Communication Networks. (Articles: 7, 13). Effective date n/a; 
10) Law No.  188 of 17th July 2009 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Private Business. (Articles: 5, 6). Effective date n/a; 
11) Law No. 258 of 19th March 2010 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of State Statistics and Taxation. (Article 5). Effective date n/a; 
12) Law No. 378 of 6th January 2011 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of State Control and Supervision. (Articles:  5, 6, 19). Effective date n/a; 
13) Law No. 414-IV of 1st March, 2011 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of State Property. (Article 1). Effective date n/a; 
14) Law No. 452 of 5th July 2011 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Revision of the Competence of Authorised State Bodies and of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Pass Regulatory Legal Acts establishing Requirements to Audited Entities. (Articles: 4 replaced, 5 replaced, 7, 14, 15, 16, 20). Effective date n/a; 
15) Law No. 461 of 15th July 2011 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Improvement of the Permissive System. (Article 6). Effective date n/a; 
16) Law No. 479 of 22nd July 2011 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Housing Relations. (Articles: 1, 4, 5-1 introduced). Effective date n/a; 
17) Law No. 542 of 13th January 2012 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Energy Saving and Enhancement of Energy Effectiveness. (Article 18). Effective July 1, 2012; 
18) Law No. 25 of 4th July 2012 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Electric Power Industry, Investment Activity of Entities of Natural Monopolies and Regulated Markets. (Articles: 1, 4, 5, 7, 9-1, 10, 12, 12-1, 13, 15, 15-1 introduced, 15-2 introduced, 15-3 introduced, 17, 18, 25). Effective date n/a, except for  Amendments to: subparagraph 31-5) of Article 1, subparagraph 4) of Article 4, subparagraph 12-2) of Article 5, subparagraphs 18), 22) of paragraph 1 of Article 10, paragraphs 2, 3, 4, 5 of Article 15-2, paragraphs 1, 2 of Article 15-3 which are effective January 1, 2015; subparagraphs 3), 4), 20-1) 28), 31-2) 31-3), 31-6), 31-7), 33), 33-1), 37-1), 40), 42) and 51) of Article 1, subparagraphs 5), 6), 6-1), 10-1), 10-2) and 38-4) of Article 4, subparagraphs 12), in 14) the words ‘electric energy’ shall be repealed, 41), 46-6) and 46-8) of Article 5, subparagraphs 2), 3) of Article 7, subparagraphs 17), 20) and 21), of paragraph 1 of Article 10, subparagraphs 1), 2), 10) of paragraph 3, the first part of paragraph 4, paragraph 6 of Article 12, Heading, paragraph 1, 2, 2-1, 4,5 and 6 of Article 12-1, subparagraph 3) of paragraph 3-2, the first part of paragraph 4 of Article 13, Article 15, paragraph 1 of Article 15-2, paragraphs 3, 4, 5, 6 of Article 15-3, Article 17 which are effective January 1, 2016; subparagraphs  12), 13) and 14) of Article 1, subparagraphs 12-1) and 22) of Article 5 ,subparagraphs 5),  7), 8-1) of Article 7, subparagraph 3) of paragraph 3, the second, third parts of paragraph 4 of Article 12 which are effective January 1, 2017; the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and seventh parts of paragraph 3, paragraph 3-1 of Article 12-1, Article 25 which are effective until January 1, 2016; subparagraph 46-1) of Article 5, subparagraphs 4), 5), 6), 7) and 8) of paragraph 3, paragraph 5 of Article 12,  the sixth part of paragraph 3 of Article 12-1 which are effective until January 1, 2017. From the moment of enactment of this Law till 1st January 2016 subparagraph 12-1) of Article 5  is effective in  the  new  edition, and from 1st January 2016 until 1st  January 2017 subparagraph 12-1) of Article 5 is effective in the new edition. From the moment of enactment of this Law till 1st January 2016 subparagraph 5) of Article 7 is effective in the  new edition, and from 1st January 2016 until 1st  January 2017 subparagraph 5) of Article 7 is effective in  the  new  edition. Amendments to subparagraph 7) of Article 7 are effective in  the new edition  from 1st January 2016 until 1st  January 2017. From the moment of enactment of this Law till 1st January 2016 subparagraph 8-1) of Article 7 is effective in the new edition, and from 1st January 2016 until 1st  January 2017 subparagraph 8-1) of Article 7  is effective in the new edition; 
18a) Law No. 25 of 4th July 2012 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Electric Power Industry, Investment Activity of Entities of Natural Monopolies and Regulated Markets through the Law No. 81 of 6th March 2013 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Competition. (Article 7); Effective date n/a;
19) Law No. 31-V of 10th July 2012 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Matters of Technical Regulation and Metrology. (Articles: 3, 15). Effective date n/a; 
20) Law No. 36 of 10th July 2012 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of the Reduction of Permissive Documents and Optimisation of Controlling and Supervisory Functions of the State Bodies. (Article 5). Effective date n/a; 
21) Law No. 81 of 6th March 2013 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Competition (Article 7). Effective date n/a; 
22) Law No. 124-V of 3rd July 2013 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legal Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Bringing them into Line with the System of State Planning of the Republic of Kazakhstan. (Articles: 4, 5 and 6). Effective date n/a; 
23)  Law No. 128 of 4th July 2013 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Promotion of the Use of Renewable Energy Sources. (Articles: 1, 9, 10, 12 and 13). Effective date n/a; 
24) Law No. 203 of 16th May 2014 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of the Permissive System. (Articles: 4, 5, 7-1 replaced,  9, 22). Effective date n/a; 
25) Law No. 225 of 2nd July 2014 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of State Government. (Article 3-1 introduced). Effective date n/a; 
26) Law No. 239 of 29th September 2014 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Delimitation of Powers Among the State Administration Levels. (Articles: 4 replaced, 5 replaced, 5-1, 6, 12-1, 15, 16, 18, 21, 22). Effective date n/a;
27) Law No. 248 of 7th November 2014 of the Republic of Kazakhstan  Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Further Improvement of the State Government System. (Article 15-1). Effective date n/a; 
28) Law No. 269 of 29th December 2014 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of the Cardinal Improvement of Conditions for Business Activity in the Republic of Kazakhstan. (Articles: 4, 5, 6, 12, 15-3). Effective January 1, 2015, except for amendments to: subparagarph 1-1) of Article 4; subparagraphs 3), 4), 8), 50), 58), 62) and 70-7) of Article 5, which are effective January 1, 2016; subparagraphs 51) and 63) of Article 5, which are effective from January 1, 2017; 
29) Law No. 322 of 15th June 2015 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Water Supply and Water Drainage, Crediting and Subsiding of Housing-Communal Economy. (Articles:1, 3, 4, 5-1, 7-2 introduced). Effective date n/a; 
30) Law No. 376 of 29th October 2015 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Entrepreneurship. (Article 6). Effective January 1, 2016; 
31) Law No. 380 of 31st October 2015 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Public-Private Partnership. (Article 9). Effective date n/a; 
32) Law No. 394 of 12th November 2015 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Electric Energy Sector. (Articles: 1, 5, 6, 6-1 introduced, 7-3 introduced, Heading of Chapter 3 replaced, Articles: 10, 10-1 introduced, 10-2 introduced, 10-3 introduced, 12, 13, 15, 15-1, 15-2, 15-3, 15-4 introduced, 17, 19). Effective date n/a, except for amendments to: subparagraps 7), 7-1), 70-8), 70-10), 70-17), 70-19), 70-20) of Article 5, subparagraph 1) of paragraph 3-1 of Article 13, which are effective January 1, 2016; subparagraphs 70-5), 70-9), 70-11), 70-12), 70-15), 70-16), 70-18), 70-21) of Article 5, Articles 10-1, 10-2, 10-3, paragraph 6 of Article 12, Article 15-3, 15-4, which are effective January 1, 2018; subparagraph 42) of Article 1, subparagraphs 1), 10) of paragraph 3, the first part of paragraph 4 of Article 12, Article 12-1, subparagraph 3-1) of paragraph 3-2 of Article 13, which are effective January 1, 2019. Articles 10-1,  10-2,  shall be effective until the 1st January 2018 under the edition of Article 2; 
32a) Law No. 394 of 12th November 2015 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Electric Energy Sector through Law No. 89 of 11th July 2017 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Electric Power Industry. (Articles 12-1, 15-3) Effective date n/a;
33) Law No. 432 of 3rd December 2015 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Taxation and Customs Administration; 
34) Law No. 479 of 29th March 2016 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Reduction of Permissive Documents and Simplification of Permissive Procedures. (Articles: 5, 6, 7-3 repealed, 12).  Effective date n/a; 
35) Law No. 504 of 21st April 2016 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Protection of Consumer Rights; 
36) Law No. 34 of 28th December 2016 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Competition and State Support to Housing Construction. (Articles: 1, 7, 9, 12, 12-1, 13, 14, 22). Effective January 1, 2017; 
 37) Law No. 89 of 11th July 2017 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Electric Power Industry. (Articles: 1, 5, 5-2 introduced, 6, 6-1, 7, 9, 10, 10-1 repealed, 12, 12-1, 13, 13-1 introduced, 15-2, 18, 21, 22, 25). Effective date n/a, except for amendments to:  subparagraphs 70-23), 70-24), 70-25), 70-26), 70-27), 70-28) of Article 5  , which are effective January 1, 2019;
38) Law No. 156 of 24th May 2018 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Business Regulation Improvement. (Articles: 5, 6, 6-1 replaced). Effective date n/a; 
39) Law No. 184 of 5th October 2018 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Ensuring the Unity of Measures and Standardization. (Articles: 3, 5, 9-1, 9-3, 10-2, 12, 15-1 replaced, 15-3, 15-4, 15-5 introduced, 15-6 introduced). Effective upon the expiration of six months from the day of the first official publication, except for amendments to Articles 5, 10-2, 15-1, 15-3, 15-4, 15-5, 15-6, which are effective upon the expiration of ten calendar days from the date of the first official publication; 
40) Law No. 202 of 26th Decemebr 2018 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of State Procurement of Entities of the Quasi-Public Sector. (Article 13). Effective January 1, 2019; 
41) Law No. 241 of 2nd April 2019 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Development of the Business Environment and Regulation of Trade Activity. (Articles: 1, 13, 18). Effective date n/a; 
42) Law No. 243 of 3rd April 2019 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Special Economic and Industrial Zones, Attraction of Investments, Development and Promotion of Export, and Also Social Support. (Article 15-4). Effective date n/a; 
43) Law No. 249 of 19th April 2019 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Transport. (Articles: 5, 5-1, 5-2). Effective date n/a;
44) Law No. 284 of 26th December 2019 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Housing and Communal Services. (Articles: 1, 5-1); 
45) Law No. 297 of 30th December 2019 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Subsurface Use, Gas and Gas Supply.  (Articles: 1, 5, 15-5, 15-7 introduced). Effective date n/a
; and
46) Law No. 352 of 29th June 2020 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Business Climate Improvement. (Article 5). Effective date n/a.
This Law shall regulate public relations arising in the process of generation, transmission and consumption of electric and thermal power.

CHAPTER 1.  GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1.  The Fundamental Definitions Used in this Law
Introduced by 7)  Law No. 116 of 29th December 2008 of Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning Issues of Activities of Independent Sectoral Regulators.
Amended by: 13) Law No. 414-IV of 1st March, 2011 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of State Property;
16) Law No. 479 of 22nd July 2011 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Housing Relations; 
18) Law No. 25 of 4th July 2012 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Electric Power Industry, Investment Activity of Entities of Natural Monopolies and Regulated Markets; 
23)  Law No. 128 of 4th July 2013 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Promotion of the Use of Renewable Energy Sources; 
29) Law No. 322 of 15th June 2015 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Water Supply and Water Drainage, Crediting and Subsiding of Housing-Communal Economy;
32) Law No. 394 of 12th November 2015 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Electric Energy Sector; 
36) Law No. 34 of 28th December 2016 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Competition and State Support to Housing Construction; 
37) Law No. 89 of 11th July 2017 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Electric Power Industry; 
41) Law No. 241 of 2nd April 2019 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Development of the Business Environment and Regulation of Trade Activity;
44) Law No. 284 of 26th December 2019 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Housing and Communal Services; and
45) Law No. 297 of 30th December 2019 of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Issues of Subsurface Use, Gas and Gas Supply.  
The following fundamental definitions have been used in this Law:

1) emergency reservation – the minimum use of electric power (minimum consumer capacity) by facilities of the consumer with the fully stopped technological process, which use supports their condition that is safe for the life, health of people and for the environment, and also the functioning of current receivers for standby and security light, security and fire alarm systems, fire fighting pumps, water outlets, cooling of main technological equipment, communication and emergency ventilation;
2)  emergency malfunction shall mean inadmissible deviations of technological parameters of operation of electrical installations or its elements which caused their removal from service or destruction during operation;

2-1) readiness passport – a yearly issued document confirming the readiness of power producing and power transmitting organizations to operate during the autumn-winter period;
2-2) common purchaser – a legal entity determined by the authorized body that carries out centralized purchases of the service for maintenance of electric capacity readiness and centralized rendering of the service for ensuring electric capacity readiness to bear loads through the procedure stipulated by this Law;
2-3) generating plant – a unit generating electric power;
2-4) dispatcher technological control – the process that is performed by the dispatcher and designated to solve tasks of control and operation of functioning modes of electric power grids by means of automated systems of dispatcher and technological control, and also reception and processing of messages from natural persons and legal entities about prerequisites of occurrence or about the occurrence of technological failures that require undertaking measures of response and removing malfunctions and damages;
3), 4) repealed by 18;

5)  system incident shall mean emergency malfunction of the regimes of operation of electric power industry objects which leads to the loss of stability of the unified electric power system of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and to its division to parts;

6)  system services shall mean the services rendered by the system operator to entities of the wholesale market of electric power for the transmission of electric energy, technical dispatching control, regulation and reservation of power, organization of balancing of the generation-consumption of electric energy;

7) system operator * a national company which carries out centralised operative-dispatching control, providing for parallel operation with energy systems of other countries, maintenance of balance in the energy system, rendering of system services and acquisition of ancillary services from entities of the wholesale market of electric energy, and also transmission of electric energy via the national power grid, its technical maintenance and keeping in the operational readiness; 

8) protection zone of heating networks shall mean land plots allocated for the purpose of ensuring the safety of heating networks, creation of the normal operating conditions, prevention of their damage, and also accidents among the population that happened to be present in the protection zone of those networks; 

8-1) heat supply system – a complex consisting of heat producing, head transmitting and heat using plants;

9) thermal power transmission – a service for transportation of thermal power and (or) heat carrier by thermal power grids that is rendered by power transmitting organizations in accordance with made contracts;
10) retail market of thermal power – a system of mutual relations of participants in the production, transmission of thermal power to perform heat supplies to consumers on the basis of contracts;
11) investment program shall mean a program aimed at the creation of new assets, expansion, renovation, reconstruction and technical re-equipping of the existing assets;

12) repealed by 18;
13) investment agreement – an agreement on the fulfillment of an investment program between the power producing organization, the authorized body and the state body performing administration in the spheres of natural monopolies;
14) repealed by 18;
15)  device of commercial recording shall mean a technical installation designed for commercial recording of electric power, electric or thermal energy, allowed for the application in accordance with the procedure as established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;  

15-1) [repealed by 44]

15-2) autumn-winter period – a heating season, whose commencement and completion are established by local executive bodies;
16) unified electric power grid of the Republic of Kazakhstan shall mean an aggregate of electric stations, power transmission lines, and substations which provide for reliable and qualitative energy supply of consumers of the Republic of Kazakhstan; 

17) reserve of electric power of the unified electric power grid of the Republic of Kazakhstan shall mean electric power of aggregates of energy producing organizations which have the required structure, amount, and also the degree of preparedness to dispatching, complying with the requirements as provided for by the contract; 

18)  ancillary services shall mean services acquired by the system operator from entities of the wholesale market of electric energy for ensuring the readiness of the required volumes and structure of operative reserves of electric power, regulation of active and reactive powers, on starting the energy system from the deenergized state;  

18-1) state technical inspector * an official person of the authorised body which carries out state control over the compliance with requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan concerning electric power industry; 

18-2) market council – a non-commercial organization carrying out activity for monitoring of the functioning of the electric power and capacity market, and also other functions stipulated by this Law;
19)  operation day shall mean a current day during which the system operator conducts the operations on the centralized operative and dispatching control of the implementation of the contracts for the purchase-and-sale of electric energy executed by entities of the wholesale market of electric energy;

20)  centralized operative-dispatching control shall mean a process of continuous control of technically coordinated operation of energy generating, energy transmitting, energy supplying organizations and consumers of electric energy, which is carried out by the system operator, and which provides for a specified level of reliability of the unified electric power grid of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and compliance with the standard quality of electric energy; 

20-1) operator of the market of centralised trading * an organisation which carries out centralised trading in electric energy, including spot trades in electric energy, and services for maintenance of electric capacity readiness; 

21)  inter-regional and/or interstate power transmission lines shall mean power transmission lines with voltage of 220 kV and more, which provide for the transmission of electric power between regions and/or states;  

22) regional electric power grid company – a power transmitting organization that has a direct technological connection with a power producing organization and (or) with the national electric power grids, that possesses cable or overhead electric power transmission lines of not less than four voltage classes (220, 110, 35, 20, 10 (6), 0,4 kilovolts), that operates electric power grids of the regional level and that has no less than 10 000 connected consumers;
22-1) fuel operational reserve standard * the minimum fuel operational reserve of energy producing organisations in daily quantities; 

22-2) expert organization – a legal entity carrying out activity for conducting power expert examination in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
23) balancing electric energy shall mean electric energy used for elimination of arising disbalances in the implementation of the hourly daily schedule of production-consumption of electric energy approved by the system operator;

23-1) limiting tariff for balancing electric power – the maximum value of a supply tariff (price) of electric power to be sold in the balancing electric power market that is approved by the authorized body for groups of power producing organizations selling electric power for a period equal to seven years, that takes into account costs of electric power production, purchase of electric power from the settlement-financial centre for promotion of renewable energy sources and fixed profit for balancing, that is determined according to technique established by the authorized body;
24)  technical dispatching shall mean a service rendered by the system operator for the performance of the centralized operative-dispatching control of the regimes of production and consumption of electric energy in the unified electric power grid of the Republic of Kazakhstan; 

24-1) technological reservation – the minimum use of electric power (minimum consumer capacity) and the duration of time that are required to complete a continuous technological process and to prevent a risk for lives of people and for the environment;
24-2) authorized body in the sphere of housing relations and housing-and-communal economy – the central executive body that carries out the administration and inter-sector coordination in the sphere of heat supply (except for heat-and-power plants and boiler houses that produce heat in a centralized heat supply zone) within the limits of inhabited areas; 
24-3) organization for modernization and development of housing-communal economy – a joint-stock company with one hundred percent participation of the state, whose activity is aimed at the modernization and development of housing-communal economy;
24-4) home consumer – a natural person that uses electric power for own home needs not relating to the production (sale) of goods, work and rendering of services;
24-5) household consumer - a natural person who uses electric power for own household needs not related to the production (sale) of goods, works and rendering of services;   
25) consumer shall mean a natural or legal person which consumes electric and/or thermal energy on the basis of a contract;

26) authorized body shall mean a state body which carries out guidance in the area of electric power industry;

27) national electric power grid – a totality of substations, distribution installations, inter-regional and (or) interstate electric power transmission lines and electric power transmission lines which carry out the supply of electric power of electric stations with voltage of 220 kV and more, which are not be subject to privatization and which are be transferred to a national company in accordance with the procedure and on conditions to be defined by the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan;