Article 5. Areas of natural monopolies of the Law On Natural Monopolies

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1. The spheres of natural monopolies in the Republic of Kazakhstan include regulated services:

1) for the transportation of oil and (or) petroleum products through main pipelines, with the exception of their transportation for transit through the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan and export outside the Republic of Kazakhstan;

2) storage and transportation of commercial gas through connecting, main gas pipelines and (or) gas distribution systems, operation of group tank installations, as well as transportation of crude gas through connecting gas pipelines, with the exception of storage and transportation of commercial gas for transit through the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan and export outside the Republic of Kazakhstan;

3) for the transmission of electrical energy;

4) for the production, transmission, distribution and (or) supply of thermal energy, with the exception of thermal energy generated using heat from soil, surface and underground water bodies, waste water from industrial enterprises and power plants, sewage treatment plants;

5) on technical dispatching of supply to the grid and consumption of electric energy;

6) on the organization of balancing the production and consumption of electric energy;

7) mainline railway networks, with the exception of regulated services of mainline railway networks for the transportation of goods in containers, transportation of empty containers and transit transportation of goods through the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

8) railway tracks with railway transport facilities under public-private partnership agreements in the absence of a competitive railway track;

9) access roads in the absence of a competitive access road;

10) air navigation, with the exception of air navigation services for international and transit flights;

11) ports in the absence of competition in the port services market;

12) airports, with the exception of air transportation services, carrying out transit flights through the airspace of the Republic of Kazakhstan with technical landings at airports of the Republic of Kazakhstan for non-commercial purposes and in international destinations;

13) for the provision of property lease (lease) or use of cable sewerage, with the exception of the activities of small businesses;

14) water supply and (or) sanitation.

2. Subjects of natural monopolies are subject to inclusion in the State Register of Subjects of Natural Monopolies with indication of regulated services.

3. The expansion of the spheres of natural monopolies is carried out in accordance with international treaties ratified by the Republic of Kazakhstan.

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