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; and
       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

This Law shall regulate public relations arising in the process of generation, transmission and  consumption of electric and thermal power.

The following fundamental definitions have been used in this Law:

1)  emergency reservation shall mean the minimally required electric power which delivery to an object of uninterrupted electric power supply retains the functioning of the installations significant to it, and prevents malfunction of objects of sustenance, and also catastrophic ecological, social or economic consequences or death of people. 

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 certificate * a yearly issued document confirming the readiness of energy producing and energy transmitting organisations to operate in the autumn-winter conditions; 

2-2) generating facility * equipment producing electric energy; 

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; 

9)  transmission of thermal energy shall mean a service for transportation of thermal energy via heating networks, rendered by energy transmitting organizations in accordance with the executed contracts;

10)  retail market of thermal energy shall mean a system of relations of the participants of generation, transmission, and consumption of thermal energy, functioning 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;

	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) authorised body in the field of communal economy * a central executive authority performing administration and intersector coordination in the field of electric power supply (electric power grid facilities with 0,4 kV) and heat supply, except for heat-electric generating stations and boiler houses with the established capacity of 100 Gcal/hour and more, within the limits of populated areas;  

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;