Article 1. The basic concepts used in this Law of the Law on Special Economic and Industrial Zones

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The following basic concepts are used in this Law:

1) excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 12/30/2022 No. 177-VII (effective ten calendar days after the date of its first official publication);

2) a special economic zone is a part of the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan with precisely defined borders, on which a special legal regime of a special economic zone operates for carrying out activities in accordance with this Law.;

3) a special economic zone management company is a legal entity established or designated in accordance with this Law to ensure the functioning of a special economic zone.;

4) a participant in a special economic zone is a legal entity that carries out priority activities on the territory of a special economic zone and is included in the unified register of participants in special economic zones.

At the same time:

Participants of the Park of Innovative Technologies special economic zone are allowed to carry out priority activities outside the territory of this special economic zone.;

Individual entrepreneurs engaged in priority activities in the territory of the specified special economic zone may participate in a special economic zone, the limits of which fully or partially coincide with the sections of the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union.;

5) priority activities – the types of activities included in the list of priority activities carried out in the territories of special economic zones, which are subject to the special legal regime of the special economic zone;

5-1) non–core activities - activities that are not included in the list of priority activities related to the manufacturing industry, which are associated with the processing of raw materials, materials, substances, components for a new product;

5-2) a person engaged in non–core activities is a person included in the unified register of persons engaged in non-core activities and engaged in such activities on the territory of a special economic zone.;

5-3) a non–core activity agreement is an agreement concluded between a person engaged in non-core activities or several persons engaged in non-core activities and the management company of a special economic zone, which establishes the conditions for carrying out activities in the territory of the special economic zone, the rights, duties and responsibilities of the parties;

6) the "one window" principle is a form of provision of government and other services in the territories of special economic and industrial zones, which minimizes the participation of applicants in the collection and preparation of documents and limits their direct contact with the subjects of the provision of government and other services.;

7) a single technological process is a set of technologically interrelated and sequential actions (works) performed in the production process within the framework of a single priority and (or) non-core activities. The set of activities within the framework of a single technological process is an integral part of the priority and (or) non-core activities and forms one whole with it.;

7-1) a special industrial zone is a type of private industrial zone on the territory of which the direct application of international building codes and regulations, as well as international regional standards and standards of foreign countries, is allowed, created by individuals and (or) non–governmental legal entities.;

7-2) management company of a special industrial zone – a legal entity established or designated by the owner of a land plot of a special industrial zone to ensure the functioning of a special industrial zone;

8) project – a set of measures providing for the creation of modern high-performance, competitive industries and services for the implementation of priority or non-core activities by a potential participant, applicant, participant in a special economic zone or a person engaged in non-core activities, as well as for the implementation of entrepreneurial activities by a potential participant, applicant or participant in an industrial zone;

9) industrial zone – an area provided with engineering and communication infrastructure provided to private business entities for the placement and operation of business facilities, including in the field of industry, agro-industrial complex, tourism industry, transport logistics, waste management, in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

10) an industrial zone management company is a legal entity established or designated in accordance with this Law to ensure the functioning of an industrial zone.;

11) participant of the industrial zone – an individual entrepreneur, a legal entity engaged in the placement and operation of business facilities on the territory of the industrial zone in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, with which the management company of the industrial zone has concluded an agreement on the implementation of activities;

12) infrastructure facilities – facilities that are part of facilities for the production and (or) transmission of heat and electric energy, water supply and gas supply, sewerage, transport communications, communication services and other facilities of a special economic or industrial zone;

13) auxiliary activities – types of activities necessary to service the activities of participants in a special economic zone, carried out by persons who are not participants in the special economic zone on its territory;

14) persons engaged in ancillary activities – individual entrepreneurs or legal entities that are not members of the special economic zone, engaged in ancillary activities in accordance with this Law;

15) an activity agreement is an agreement concluded between a participant or several participants in a special economic or industrial zone and the management company of a special economic or industrial zone, establishing the conditions for carrying out activities on the territory of a special economic or industrial zone and (or) in their legal regime, the rights, duties and responsibilities of the parties;

16) the regional coordinating council is an advisory body headed by the akim of a region, a city of republican significance, the capital or his deputy, performing functions in accordance with this Law and other functions defined by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.;

17) applicant – a person submitting an application to the management company of a special economic zone for the implementation of priority or non-core, or auxiliary activities, or an application to the management company of an industrial zone for entrepreneurial activity as a participant in an industrial zone;

18) the expert council is a permanent interdepartmental consultative and advisory body that considers the expediency of creating, extending the term of operation and abolishing special economic zones, as well as the expediency of creating, extending the term of operation and abolishing industrial zones of national significance in accordance with this Law.;

19) authorized body – the central executive body responsible for state regulation in the field of creation, operation and abolition of special economic and industrial zones.

This Law regulates public relations arising from the creation, operation and abolition of special economic and industrial zones on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

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