Appendix 2 Types of planned activities and other criteria on the basis of which objects that have a negative impact on the environment are classified as objects of categories I, II or III.

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Appendix 2

to the Environmental Code

Republic of Kazakhstanot January 2, 2021

No. 400-VI SAM

Types of planned activities and other criteria on the basis of which objects that have a negative impact on the environment are classified as objects of categories I, II or III.

Section 1. Types of planned activities and other criteria on the basis of which objects that have a negative impact on the environment are classified as category I objects.

The footnote. Appendix 2 as amended by the Laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 04/06/2024 No. 71-VIII (effective sixty calendar days after the date of its first official publication); dated 06/24/2026 No. 324-VIII (effective sixty calendar days after the date of its first official publication).; dated 07/07/2026 No. 340-VIII (effective sixty calendar days after the date of its first official publication).

1. Energy industry:

1.1. combustion of fuels, excluding gas, at stations with a total installed capacity of 50 megawatts (MW) or more;

1.2. Gas-fired power generating stations with a capacity exceeding 500 megawatts (MW);

1.3. exploration of hydrocarbons in subsurface areas carried out at sea, extraction of hydrocarbons and processing of hydrocarbons;

1.4. coke production;

1.5. gasification or liquefaction:

1.5.1. coal;

1.5.2. other types of fuel in installations with a total installed capacity of 20 megawatts (MW) or more.

2. Production and processing of metals:

2.1. roasting or sintering of metal ore (including sulfide ore);

2.2. production of cast iron, ferroalloys or steel (primary or secondary melting), including continuous casting, with a capacity exceeding 2.5 tons per hour;

2.3. processing of ferrous metals:

2.3.1. operation of hot rolling mills with a capacity exceeding 20 tons of crude steel per hour;

2.3.2. operation of forging hammers with an energy capacity exceeding 50 kilojoules (kJ) per hammer, where the electrical power consumption exceeds 20 megawatts (MW);

2.3.3. application of protective sprayed metal coatings with a feed of crude steel exceeding 2 tons per hour;

2.4. casting of ferrous metals with a production capacity exceeding 20 tons per day;

2.5. production and processing of non-ferrous metals:

2.5.1. production of non-oxidized non-ferrous metals from ores, concentrates or secondary raw materials by metallurgical, chemical or electrolytic processes;

2.5.2. smelting, including alloying, of non-ferrous metals, including recovered products, and operation of non-ferrous metal foundries with a melting capacity exceeding:

4 tons per day – for lead and cadmium;

20 tons per day – for all other non-ferrous metals;

2.6. surface treatment of metals and plastic materials using electrolytic or chemical processes in process baths with a total volume of 30 m3 or more.

3. Mineral industry:

3.1. extraction and processing of solid minerals, with the exception of common minerals;

3.2. production of cement, lime and magnesium oxide:

3.2.1. production of cement clinker in rotary kilns with a production capacity exceeding 500 tons per day or in other kilns with a capacity exceeding 50 tons per day;

3.2.2. lime production in furnaces with a production capacity exceeding 50 tons per day;

3.2.3. production of magnesium oxide in furnaces with a production capacity exceeding 50 tons per day;

3.3. production of asbestos, as well as fragile asbestos-based products;

3.4. production of glass, including fiberglass, with a melting capacity of more than 20 tons per day;

3.5. melting of mineral substances, including the production of mineral fibers, with a melting capacity exceeding 20 tons per day;

3.6. production of ceramic products by firing, in particular roof tiles, bricks, refractory bricks, ceramic tiles, stone ceramics or porcelain, with a production capacity exceeding 75 tons per day and (or) with a kiln capacity exceeding 4 m3 and a kiln cage density exceeding 300 kg/m3.

4. Chemical industry:

4.1. industrial production of organic chemicals:

simple hydrocarbons (linear or cyclic, saturated or unsaturated, aliphatic or aromatic);

oxygen-containing hydrocarbons: alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, esters, acetates, esters, peroxides, epoxy resins;

sulphurous hydrocarbons;

nitrogen hydrocarbons: amines, amides, nitrogen compounds, nitro compounds or nitrate compounds, nitriles, cyanates, isocyanates;

phosphorus-containing hydrocarbons;

halogenated hydrocarbons;

organometallic compounds;

basic plastic materials (polymers, synthetic fibers, and cellulose-based fibers);

synthetic rubber;

paints and pigments;

surfactants;

4.2. industrial production of inorganic substances:

gases: ammonia, chlorine or hydrogen chloride, fluorine or hydrogen fluoride, carbon oxides, sulfur compounds, nitrogen oxides, hydrogen, sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide;

acids: chromic acid, hydrofluoric acid, phosphoric acid, nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, oleum, sulfuric acid;

Alkalis: ammonium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide;

salts: ammonium chloride, potassium chloride, potassium carbonate, sodium carbonate, perborate, silver nitrate;

non-metals, metal oxides or other inorganic compounds: calcium carbide, silicon, silicon carbide;

4.3. industrial production of phosphorous, nitrogen or potash mineral fertilizers (simple or complex fertilizers);

4.4. industrial production of pesticides and biocides;

4.5. industrial production of pharmaceutical products, except for the production of pharmaceutical salts of potassium (chloride, sulphate, potash);

4.6. industrial production of explosives.

5. Food industry:

5.1. operation of slaughterhouses with a capacity of more than 50 tons per day;

5.2. processing and processing, except exclusively packaging, of the following raw materials, previously processed or unprocessed, intended for the production of food or feed from:

5.2.1. only animal raw materials (except exclusively milk) with a production capacity of more than 75 tons per day;

5.2.2. only vegetable raw materials with a production capacity of more than 300 tons per day or 600 tons per day, when the plant operates for no more than 90 consecutive days in any year.;

5."2.3" "raw" materials of animal and vegetable origin, both in the form of combined and separate products, with a production capacity of finished products in tons per day exceeding 75 if "A" is equal to 10 or more, or determined by the formula: 300 – (22.5 × "A") if "A" is less than 10,

where "A" is the proportion of animal material (as a percentage of weight) in the production of the finished product.

Packaging should not be included in the final weight of the product.

Subparagraph 5.2.3 of paragraph 5.2 does not apply if only milk is used as a raw material.;

5.3. only processing and processing of milk when the amount of milk produced exceeds 200 tons per day (the average value for the year).

6. Waste management:

6.1. disposal and (or) recovery of hazardous waste with a capacity exceeding 10 tons per day, including one or more of the following operations:

6.1.1. biological waste treatment;

6.1.2. physical and chemical waste treatment;

6.1.3. mixing of waste before transfer to another type of activity specified in paragraphs 6.1 and 6.2.;

6.1.4. Repackaging before transfer to the types of activities specified in paragraphs 6.1 and 6.2.;

6.1.5. Solvent regeneration;

6.1.6. recycling (regeneration) of inorganic materials other than metals or their compounds;

6.1.7. regeneration of acids or bases;

6.1.8. Restoration of components used for pollution control;

6.1.9. extraction of components from catalysts;

6.1.10. oil recycling or other types of oil reuse;

6.1.11. placement in surface ponds;

6.2. Waste disposal or recovery at incinerators or waste co-incineration plants:

6.2.1. for non-hazardous waste – with a capacity exceeding 3 tons per hour;

6.2.2. for hazardous waste – with a capacity exceeding 10 tons per day;

6.3. disposal of non-hazardous waste with a capacity exceeding 50 tons per day, including one or more of the following operations:

6.3.1. biological waste treatment;

6.3.2. physical and chemical waste treatment;

6.3.3. pre-treatment of waste for subsequent incineration;

6.3.4. slag and ash treatment;

6.3.5. processing of metal waste in shredders, including waste from electrical and electronic equipment, as well as vehicles with expired service life and their components;

6.4. recovery and (or) disposal of non-hazardous waste with a capacity exceeding 75 tons per day, including one or more of the following operations:

6.4.1. biological waste treatment;

6.4.2. pre-treatment of waste for subsequent incineration;

6.4.3. slag and ash treatment;

6.4.4. processing of metal waste in shredders, including waste from electrical and electronic equipment, as well as vehicles with expired service life and their components.

If the only type of waste treatment activity listed in paragraphs 6.3 and 6.4 is anaerobic decomposition, the threshold value for this activity is 100 tons per day.;

6.5. landfills that receive more than 10 tons of waste per day, or with a total capacity exceeding 25 thousand tons, excluding inert waste landfills;

6.6. accumulation of hazardous waste not included in paragraph 6.5, pending any type of activity listed in paragraphs 6.1, 6.2, 6.5 and 6.7 in an amount exceeding 50 tons at the site where waste is generated, with the exception of accumulation pending collection;

6.7. underground storage of hazardous waste with a total capacity of more than 50 tons.

7. Other types of activities:

7.1. production in industrial installations:

7.1.1. cellulose from wood or other fibrous materials;

7.1.2. paper or cardboard with a capacity exceeding 20 tons per day;

7.1.3. one or more of the following types of wood slabs: oriented chipboard, chipboard or fiberboard (with a production capacity exceeding 600 m3 per day);

7.2. pretreatment (washing, bleaching, mercerization) or dyeing of textile fibers or textiles when the processing capacity exceeds 10 tons per day;

7.3. tanning of hides and skins, in which the processing capacity exceeds 12 tons of finished products per day;

7.4. removal or processing of animal carcasses or livestock waste with a processing capacity of more than 10 tons per day;

7.5. intensive rearing of poultry or pigs:

7.5.1. more than 50 thousand heads – for poultry;

7.5.2. more than 2 thousand heads – for pigs (weighing more than 30 kg);

7.5.3. more than 750 heads – for sows;

7.6. surface treatment of substances, objects or products, in particular for finishing, printing, coating, degreasing, waterproofing, gluing, painting, cleaning or impregnation, using organic solvents, the consumption of which is more than 150 kg per hour or more than 200 tons per year;

7.7. production of carbon or electrographite by combustion or graphitization;

7.8. capture of carbon dioxide emissions from Category I facilities for the purposes of its geological storage in the subsurface;

7.9. preservation of wood and wood products with chemicals with a capacity exceeding 75 m3 per day, except for processing in order to eliminate wood blue;

7.10. complexes of wastewater treatment plants discharged by Category I facilities, except for municipal wastewater treatment;

7.11. facilities for wastewater treatment of centralized wastewater disposal (sewerage) systems with a capacity of 20 thousand m3 per day or more;

7.12. operation of nuclear installations, including nuclear power plants (with the exception of zero-power research nuclear installations);

7.13. mining of uranium and thorium ores, enrichment of uranium and thorium ores, production of nuclear fuel;

7.14. operation:

7.14.1. radiation sources (with the exception of radiation sources containing only radionuclide sources of the fourth and fifth categories of radiation hazard), provided that there are sources of emissions and discharges of radioactive substances into the environment at the facility.;

7.14.2. storage facilities for nuclear materials and radioactive substances, storage facilities, radioactive waste storage facilities, and radioactive waste disposal facilities.

Note. An asbestos-based brittle product is understood to mean a material containing asbestos that, when mechanically exposed without the use of tools and equipment, is crushed, crushed or reduced to a powdery state.

Section 2. Types of planned activities and other criteria on the basis of which objects that have a negative impact on the environment are classified as category II objects.

1. Energy industry:

1.1. burning of fuel, with the exception of gas, at stations with a total installed electric capacity of 5 megawatts (MW) or more, and (or) for the purpose of providing electric, thermal energy, gas, hot water and (or) steam using equipment with a total design thermal capacity of 4 Gcal/hour or more;

1.2. gas production by gasification and (or) liquefaction of solid fuels, with the exception of coal, in installations with a total installed capacity of less than 20 megawatts (MW);

1.3. Gas-fired power generating stations with a capacity of 10 megawatts (MW) or more.

1.4. exploration of hydrocarbons, with the exception of activities during the exploration of hydrocarbons in subsurface areas carried out at sea.

2. Production and processing of metals:

2.1. metallurgical production using equipment:

2.1.1. for the production of cast iron or steel (primary or secondary smelting), including continuous casting plants (with a capacity of less than 2.5 tons per hour);

2.1.2. for processing ferrous metals using hot rolling mills (with a design capacity of less than 20 tons of crude steel per hour);

2.1.3. for the application of protective sprayed metal coatings with a feed of crude steel of less than 2 tons per hour;

2.1.4. for foundry production of ferrous metals with a capacity of less than 20 tons per day;

2.1.5. for smelting, including alloying, refining and casting of non-ferrous metals (with a design melting capacity of less than 4 tons per day for lead and cadmium or less than 20 tons per day for other metals);

2.2. surface treatment of metals and plastic materials using electrolytic or chemical processes in technological baths with a total volume of less than 30 m3.

3. Mineral industry:

3.1. production:

3.1.1. cement clinker in rotary kilns with a production capacity not exceeding 500 tons per day, or in other kilns with a capacity not exceeding 50 tons per day;

3.1.2. lime (quicklime, slaked) in furnaces with a production capacity of less than 50 tons per day;

3.1.3. magnesium oxide in furnaces with a production capacity of less than 50 tons per day;

3.1.4. glass and glass products, including fiberglass, with a melting capacity of less than 20 tons per day;

3.1.5. non-metallic mineral products using equipment for melting mineral substances, including the production of mineral fibers with a melting capacity of not more than 20 tons per day;

3.1.6. refractory ceramic products and building ceramic materials with a design capacity of less than 1 million pieces per year;

3.1.7. ceramic or porcelain products, except for refractory ceramic products and building ceramic materials, with a production capacity not exceeding 75 tons per day, and (or) using kilns with a cage density per kiln not exceeding 300 kg/m3.

3.1.8. asbestos-based products classified as non-brittle asbestos-based products;

3.1.9. asphalt concrete mixtures and bitumen products for road construction.

4. Food industry:

4.1. production:

4.1.1. meat and meat products with a production capacity of not more than 75 tons of finished products per day;

4.1.2. vegetable and animal oils and fats (with a design capacity less than that specified in sub-paragraphs 5.2.2 and 5.2.3 of paragraph 5.2 of Section 1 of this annex);

4.1.3. potato, fruit and vegetable products (with a design capacity of at least 300 tons of finished products per day (quarterly average);

4.1.4. dairy products (with a design capacity of less than 200 tons of processed milk per day (annual average).

5. Transport and infrastructure facilities:

5.1. ports located on inland waterways (allowing passage of vessels with a displacement of 1,350 tons or more);

5.2. seaports;

5.3. facilities intended for receiving and dispatching aircraft and servicing air transportation (if there is a runway length of 2,100 m or more);

5.4. Railway transport infrastructure facilities.

6. Waste management:

6.1. hazardous waste disposal facilities;

6.2. facilities where hazardous waste disposal or recovery operations are carried out, with a capacity of 250 tons per year or more;

6.3. facilities where hazardous waste disposal operations are carried out;

6.4. facilities where operations for disinfection, neutralization and (or) destruction of biological and medical waste are carried out;

6.5. municipal waste incinerators with a capacity not exceeding 3 tons per hour;

6.6. facilities where non-hazardous waste disposal operations are carried out, with a capacity not exceeding 50 tons per day;

6.7. facilities where non-hazardous waste disposal or recovery operations are carried out with a capacity exceeding 2,500 tons per year;

6.8. production of building materials from waste from thermal power plants;

6.9. waste sorting enterprises with a production capacity of over 10 thousand tons per year;

6.10. storage sites for scrap iron and (or) vehicles to be disposed of in an area exceeding 1 thousand m2 or in an amount exceeding 1 thousand tons;

6.11. dumps formed during the extraction of solid minerals (other than common minerals) or during peat extraction, prospecting;

6.12. accumulation of hazardous waste weighing more than 5 tons, except for accumulation pending collection, at the site where waste is generated;

6.13. open and closed warehouses of hazardous waste containing persistent organic pollutants, highly toxic substances, with a storage area of more than 100 m2.

7. Other types of activities:

7.1. production of paper and cardboard (with a capacity not exceeding 20 tons per day);

7.2. manufacture of textiles using equipment for washing, bleaching, mercerization, dyeing of textile fibers and (or) bleaching, dyeing of textile products (with a capacity not exceeding 10 tons of processed raw materials per day);

7.3. manufacture of leather and leather products using equipment for tanning, dyeing, and dressing hides and skins (with a design processing capacity of no more than 12 tons of finished products per day);

7.4. breeding of poultry (5,000 heads or more);

7.5. rearing and breeding of pigs (500 heads or more), sows (100 heads or more);

7.6. cattle breeding (1,500 heads or more);

7.7. sheep breeding (15 thousand heads or more);

7.8. surface treatment of objects or products using organic solvents, the design consumption of which is not more than 200 tons per year;

7.9. production of artificial graphite by methods excluding combustion and graphitization;

7.10. wastewater treatment of centralized wastewater disposal (sewerage) systems with a volume of wastewater less than 20 thousand m3 day;

7.11. extraction and (or) processing of common minerals over 10 thousand tons per year (including crushing and screening plants);

7.12. exploration of solid minerals with the extraction of rock mass and the movement of soil for the purpose of assessing the resources of solid minerals;

7.13. transportation of gas, refined products, oil and petroleum products through main pipelines;

7.14. production of crude oil from combustible (bituminous) shales and sand;

7.15. warehousing and storage (ground or underground):

7.15.1. oil and its refined products (with a design capacity of 200 thousand tons or more);

7.15.2. pesticides and agrochemicals (with a design capacity of 50 tons or more);

7.16. production of concrete products for use in construction, including the production of silicate bricks using autoclaves (with a design capacity of 1 million pieces per year or more);

7.17. construction, dredging and blasting operations, mining, laying cables, pipelines and other communications, drilling, agricultural and other work within the zone of influence of surge fluctuations in the Caspian Sea level;

7.18. any type of activity involving the discharge of pollutants into the environment.

7.19. application of paint and varnish materials using cataphoresis technology.

7.20. charcoal production.

8. The activity of an object that is:

8.1. a port located on inland waterways (allowing passage of vessels with a displacement of 1,350 tons or more);

8.2. sea port;

8.3. an object intended for receiving and dispatching aircraft and servicing air transportation (if there is a runway with a length of 2,100 m or more);

8.4. an object of railway transport infrastructure.

Note. If the types or objects of activity in sections 1 and 2 of this annex coincide, section 2 includes the types and objects of activity that have quantitative indicators characterizing them below the thresholds specified in section 1 of this annex.

Section 3. Types of planned activities and other criteria on the basis of which objects that have a negative impact on the environment are classified as Category III objects

1. Types of activities and facilities:

1) production of flour mixtures;

2) production of fluoroplastics processing;

3) production of paper from finished pulp and rags;

4) Glycerin production;

5) production of galalite and other protein plastics (aminoplasts and others);

6) production of enamels based on condensation resins;

7) Soap production;

8) salt and salt milling production;

9) production of pharmaceutical potassium salts (chloride, sulphate, potash);

10) production of natural mineral paints (chalk, ochre and others);

11) production of tanning extract;

12) production of printing inks;

13) photochemical production (photographic paper, photographic plates, photographic and film films);

14) production of household chemicals from finished raw materials and warehouses for their storage;

15) drying oil production;

16) production of medical glass (without the use of mercury);

17) plastics processing industry (casting, extrusion, pressing, vacuum forming);

18) production of polyurethane;

19) production of ready-made dosage forms (without the manufacture of components);

20) production of paper from waste paper;

21) dry cleaning factories with a capacity of over 160 kg per day;

22) manufacture of plastic and synthetic resin products (mechanical processing);

23) production of carbon dioxide and dry ice;

24) production of artificial pearls;

25) manufacture of matches;

26) manufacture of leaded or rubber-insulated cables;

27) workshops for the repair of road vehicles, cars, bodies, rolling stock of railway transport and the subway;

28) production of metal electrodes;

29) Font foundry (lead-free);

30) printing production;

31) Offset printing factories;

32) printing plants using lead in production;

33) assembly of locomotives and electric locomotives;

34) production of clay products;

35) glassblowing, mirror production, glass grinding and etching;

36) mechanical processing of marble;

37) excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 07.07.2026 No. 340-VIII (effective sixty calendar days after the date of its first official publication);

38) production of cooperage products from finished riveting;

39) matting and weaving production;

40) production of wood preservation with saline and aqueous solutions (without arsenic salts), dust jacket;

41) shipyards for the manufacture of wooden vessels (boats, boats);

42) carpentry, furniture, parquet, box objects;

43) cotonine production;

44) cocoon brewing and silk-winding production;

45) melange production;

46) enterprises of foam-jute twisting, rope, twine, rope and end processing;

47) production of artificial doodle;

48) shoe manufacturing;

49) production of yarn and fabrics from cotton, linen, wool in the absence of dyeing and bleaching workshops;

50) manufacture of knitwear and lace;

51) carpet production;

52) manufacture of shoe cardboard on leather and leather-cellulose fiber without the use of solvents;

53) bobbin and coil production;

54) wallpaper production;

55) manufacture of leather goods;

56) manufacture of bristle and hair brushes;

57) felting production;

58) confectionery production with a capacity of more than 3 tons per day;

59) sugar refining production;

60) production of pasta (with a capacity of more than 1 ton per day);

61) bakeries and bakery production (with a capacity of more than 3 tons per day);

62) industrial installations for low-temperature food storage with a capacity of more than 600 tons;

63) Grape juice plants;

64) fruit and vegetable juice and soft drink factories;

65) mills with a capacity of 0.5 to 2 tons per hour;

66) low-capacity facilities (mini-production): for processing meat, milk – up to 3 tons per day, fish – up to 3 tons per day;

67) reclamation facilities using livestock effluents;

68) livestock farms:

for the rearing and breeding of pigs from 100 heads or more (sows from 10 heads or more);

for cattle breeding from 150 heads and more;

for breeding poultry from 500 heads or more;

for breeding horses of 150 heads or more;

camel breeding from 150 heads and more;

for breeding sheep and goats from 600 heads and more;

animal farms – from 100 heads or more;

69) car maintenance facilities (passenger cars, except those owned by citizens; buses, except buses of urban transport);

70) trolleybus and tram fleets;

71) veterinary clinics with animal care, vivariums, kennels, dog training centers, animal overexposure points;

72) gas stations for refueling vehicles with liquid and gas motor fuel;

73) excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 07.07.2026 No. 340-VIII (effective sixty calendar days after the date of its first official publication);

74) storm water treatment facilities;

75) warehouses and open grain unloading sites;

76) warehouses and open places for unloading table salt;

77) transport and technical schemes for transshipment and storage of apatite concentrate of phosphorous flour, cement and other dusty cargoes transported in bulk, using warehouse elevators and pneumatic transport or other installations and storages that exclude dust removal to the external environment;

78) open warehouses and places for transshipment of moistened mineral construction materials (sand, gravel, crushed stone, stone, etc.);

79) storage areas and places for transshipment of pressed cake, hay, straw, tobacco products and others.

2. Other criteria.

Carrying out any type of activity that meets one or more of the following criteria:

1) the presence of stationary sources of emissions at the facility, the mass of pollutants in atmospheric emissions of which is 10 tons per year or more;

2) the use of facilities at the facility to provide electric energy, gas and steam using equipment with a design thermal capacity of 2 Gcal/hour or more;

3) accumulation of 10 tons or more of non-hazardous waste and (or) 1 ton or more of hazardous waste at the facility.

Notes.

1. In this section, production is understood as entrepreneurial activity for the serial production of goods, works and (or) the provision of services. The provisions of this section do not apply to the production of goods, works and (or) the provision of services by individuals for personal household purposes and to small businesses, including microenterprises engaged in the production of goods, works and (or) the provision of services on a one-time basis or in a small volume on individual orders with a predominant proportion of manual labor.

2. If the types or objects of activity in sections 2 and 3 of this annex coincide, section 3 includes the types and objects of activity that have quantitative indicators characterizing them below the thresholds specified in section 2 of this annex.

ENVIRONMENTAL CODE OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN dated January 2, 2021 No. 400-VI SAM.

The article was amended and supplemented by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated July 8, 2026, No. 340-VIII SAM

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