Article 9. National operator of the Law on Gas and Gas Supply

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1. The national Operator performs the following functions:

1) participates in the implementation of state policy in the field of gas and gas supply;

2) participates in the development and implementation of the general gasification scheme of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

3) exercise the preferential right of the state to purchase crude and commercial gas in accordance with this Law;

4) exercises the priority right of the state to acquire facilities of the unified commercial gas supply system, shares in the right of common ownership of facilities of the unified commercial gas supply system and blocks of shares (participation interests) of legal entities – owners of facilities of the unified commercial gas supply system in accordance with this Law;

5) ensures uninterrupted transportation and storage of commercial gas, including through the conclusion of contracts with gas transportation and gas distribution organizations;

6) carries out wholesale sales of commercial gas;

7) provides centralized operational dispatch control of the technological mode of operation of facilities of the unified commercial gas supply system;

8) submits to the authorized body information on the transportation, storage and sale of marketable gas in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan, on the purchase of crude and marketable gas under the preferential right of the state, as well as a forecast of the internal needs of the Republic of Kazakhstan in marketable gas for the upcoming calendar year;

9) ensures interaction with the gas transportation systems of neighboring countries to manage and ensure the stability of commercial gas transportation modes;

10) ensures the creation and operation of an automated commercial accounting system for commercial gas located in the unified commercial gas supply system;

11) carries out exploration and production or production of hydrocarbons in gas and gas condensate fields.

2. The national operator is obliged to:

1) ensure, under the conditions established by this Law, uninterrupted supply of commercial gas to consumers connected to facilities of the unified commercial gas supply system;

2) to ensure the construction, operation, modernization and (or) reconstruction of facilities of the unified commercial gas supply system in accordance with the general scheme of gasification of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

3) ensure the use of energy-saving and environmentally friendly technologies and equipment at the facilities of the unified commercial gas supply system owned by the national operator.

3. Facilities of the unified commercial gas supply system owned by the national operator or gas transportation and (or) gas distribution organizations, fifty or more percent of the voting shares (participation interests) of which belong to the national operator, may be alienated in agreement with the authorized body.

The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated January 9, 2012 No. 532-IV.

This Law defines the legal, economic and organizational bases for regulating public relations in the field of gas and gas supply in the Republic of Kazakhstan and is aimed at creating conditions for meeting the domestic gas needs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as for efficient, reliable and safe operation of gas supply facilities.

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