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Today: October 12, 2008 Statistics
Kazakhstan Business legislation

The Government of Kazakhstan has developed the legislative base regulating the whole scope of issues regarding business activity. The legislative base of the country is widened updated and corrected in the course of deepening market reforms and accumulating experience in public administration.

The general list of legislative acts regulating business activity and relative legal relationships:

The Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Civil Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan:

  • Law "On introducing amendments and addenda into some legislative acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on entrepreneurship" (13.10.2003, # 487-2);
  • Law "On join-stock companies" (13.05.2003, # 415-2);
  • Law "On companies with limited and additional liabilities" (16.07.1999, # 2138);
  • Law "On Farm economy" (31.05.1998, # 214-1);
  • Law "On producers' co-operative" (05.10.1995, # 2486);
  • Law "On state registration of juridical persons and registration of branches and representative offices" (17.04.1995, # 2198);
  • Law "On licensing" (17.04.1995, # 2200);
  • Law "On monitoring of state property in the strategic sectors of economy" (04.10.2003, # 490-2);
  • Law "On introducing amendments and addenda into some acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the issues of natural monopolies" (26.12.2002, # 364-2);
  • Law "On competition and restriction of monopolistic activity" (19.01.2001, # 144-II);
  • Law "On natural monopolies" (09.07.1998, # 272-1);
  • Law "On unfair competition" (09.06.1998, # 232-1);
  • Law "On investments" (08.01.2003, ¹ 373-II);
  • Law "On advertising"(19.12.2003, # 508-2);
  • Law "On introducing amendments and addenda into the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On state support to small enterprises" (10.07.2002, # 341-2);
  • Law "On consumer cooperative" (08.05.2001);
  • Law "On protection and support to private business" (02.03.2001);
  • Law "On auditing activity" (02.03.2001);
  • Law "On state support to small enterprises" (30.01.2001);
  • Law "On agricultural companies and their associations (alliances)" (25.12.2000);
  • Law "On trade marks, signs of service and names of places of goods origin" (26.07.1999, # 456-1);
  • Law "On bankruptcy" (21.01.1997, # 67-1);
  • Law 'On state control and transfer prices" (05.01.2001, # 136-2);
  • Law "On state support to small enterprises" (29.11.1999, # 3160);
  • Law "On antidumping measures" (13.07.1999, # 421-1);
  • Law "On state support to small enterprises" (19.06.1997, # 106);
  • Law "On private entrepreneurship" (4.11.1999, # 3178);
  • Law "On private entrepreneurship" (19.06.1997, # 135-1).

Decrees of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan:

  • Decree "On additional measures to protect the right of citizens and legal entities for the freedom entrepreneurship activity" (06.03.1997, # 1425);
  • Decree (having the power of Law) "On economic associations" (10.07.1998, # 888);
  • Decree "On protecting the right of citizens and legal entities for the freedom of entrepreneurship activity" (27.04.1998, # 1475);
  • Decree "On confirming the rules of state registration of normative legal acts" (08.05.1997, # 677);
  • Decree "On additional measures on realization of state guarantees for the freedom of entrepreneurship activity" (29.01.1897, # 2175);
  • Decree (having the power of Law) "On state enterprise" (19.06.1995, # 2335);
  • Decree (having the power of Law) "On economic associations" (02.05.1995 # 2255);
  • Decree (having the power of Law) "On commodity exchange" (07.04.1995 # 2170);
  • Decree (having the power of Law) "On state registrations of legal entities" (05.01.2001);
  • Decree "On protection and support to private enterprises" (29.11.1999, # 3160);
  • Decree (having the power of Law) "On additional measures on realization of state guarantees for the freedom of entrepreneurship activity" (14.06.1996, # 3036);
  • Decree (having the power of Law) "On accounting" (26.12.1995, # 2274);
  • Decree (having the power of Law) "On production co-operative society (05.10.1995, # 892).

Resolutions of the Government:

  • Resolution "On measures on simplification of entrepreneurship activity licensing" (02.08.2001, # 1023);
  • Government rules "On state regulation of the goods (work, services) prices of the companies dominating on the commodity market" (14.09.2001, # 1212);
  • Resolution "On minimal sizes of authorized capital and own stock of credit companies" (13.10.2000, # 3152);
  • Resolution "On measures on support to women entrepreneurship" (05.09.2000, # 2866);
  • Resolution "On approving the Agreement On Guidelines Of CIS states Cooperation in the field of consumer rights protection" (04.08.2000, # 2923);
    • Resolution "On introduction of the State General qualifier of enterprises and organizations" (26.07.2000, # 2919);
  • Resolution "On some issues of state guaranteed loans and monitoring of separate juridical persons (26.07.2000, # 2918);
  • Resolution "On approving the Rules of marking of the separate types of excise goods by excise stamps" (10.07.2000, # 3095);
  • Resolution "On approving the Rules of order of calculation and payment of dues for using by legal (except state enterprises, state establishments and nonprofit organizations) entities and physical persons of words "Kazakhstan", "Republic", "National" (full, as well as any derived by them) in their company name, trademarks, signs of service"(07.04.2000, # 2373);
  • Resolution "On requirements on fixing information on state and Russian languages on goods labels" (24.01.2000, # 2848);
  • Resolution "On approval of the rules of the order of state registration of normative legal acts" (12.12.1998, # 1999);
  • Resolution "On approving the Resolution on the order of payment dues for state registration of persons carrying out business activity without forming a juridical person" (24.07.1999, # 1966);
  • Resolution "On issues of dividends from state shares and profit from state market shares in organizations" (30.09.1999, # 2851);
  • Resolution "On approving an Agreement On support and development of small enterprise in C.I.S. states" (02.12.1998, # 1405);
  • Resolution "On standard charters of juridical persons acting as small enterprise" (29.09.1997, # 1404);
  • Resolution "On measures on encouraging activity aimed at financial-economic recovery of enterprises, bankruptcy warning, liquidations of insolvent enterprises" (27.06.1997, # 1412);
  • Resolution "On the order of venture companies establishment" (03.07.1995, # 1398).

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