Article 3. The main goals, objectives and principles of legislative regulation in the field of thermal energy of the Law on Thermal Energy

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1. Legislative regulation in the field of thermal power engineering is carried out in order to ensure the unity of management of the thermal power industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan as a particularly important life support system for the economic, economic and social complexes of the country.

2. The main objectives of legislative regulation in the field of thermal power engineering are:

1) ensuring a balance of interests of consumers, subjects of heat supply and the state;

2) ensuring the advanced, sustainable functioning and development of the thermal power industry on the basis of planning and program documents at the lowest cost;

3) ensuring the quality and reliability of heat supply in accordance with the requirements of technical regulations, standardization documents and the terms of concluded contracts established by this Law;

4) ensuring the implementation of the state's priorities for the transition to low-carbon development and environmental improvement, including by protecting the environment from the harmful effects of thermal power facilities, as well as developing and ensuring the priority use of district heating systems based on highly efficient cogeneration of thermal energy, the use of energy-efficient technologies and equipment, renewable energy sources and other energy sources to reduce emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases into the environment;

5) determination of the responsibility of the subjects of the heat power industry, including the owners of heat power facilities for the safe and reliable operation of heat supply systems;

6) ensuring the implementation of measures to increase the level of energy efficiency and the introduction of technologies for energy conservation, resource conservation and ensuring the possibility of using an optimal combination of various energy sources in the thermal power industry;

7) priority purchase of thermal energy by heat supply entities from industrial enterprises when disposing of excess heat from industrial processes, taking into account technical and economic feasibility;

8) providing incentives for heat supply entities subject to price regulation to increase operational efficiency, reduce heat energy losses, and improve the quality and reliability of heat supply;

9) ensuring the predictability of income from regulated services for heat supply entities to which price regulation is applied, if a long-term investment program is approved.;

10) expansion of the participation of private business entities in the thermal power industry through the mechanism of public private partnership in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

11) ensuring the investment attractiveness of the thermal power industry;

12) improvement of the regulated thermal energy market;

13) rational and economical consumption of thermal energy;

14) providing loans and subsidies for the construction, reconstruction and modernization of heat supply systems;

15) development of thermal power engineering, taking into account approved schemes for the development of heat supply.

3. The basic principles of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of thermal power engineering include:

1) efficient, economically sound, environmentally friendly and systematic planning of the development of thermal energy;

2) improving the energy efficiency of heat supply systems;

3) ensuring state control in the field of thermal power engineering;

4) monitoring and accountability of thermal power industry entities;

5) fair state regulation of tariffs in the field of thermal energy, taking into account the interests of heat supply entities and consumers of centralized and local heat supply systems to achieve reliable, sustainable and high-quality heat supply;

6) the availability of thermal energy for consumers, including through subsidies;

7) providing state support for the development of centralized and local heat supply systems, including through crediting and subsidizing the construction, reconstruction and modernization of heat supply systems at the expense of budgetary funds.

4. Central state bodies, as well as local representative and executive bodies, shall not have the right to interfere in the production and technological activities of heat supply entities related to the production and transportation of thermal energy or with the technological management of these processes, except in cases provided for by the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

This Law regulates public relations arising in the process of production, transportation, sale and consumption of thermal energy for municipal and industrial needs, as well as the high-quality functioning and development of heat supply systems and state regulation in the field of thermal energy.

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