On ratification of the Agreement on Cooperation of the Member States of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in the field of development, production, operation, repair, modernization, Extension of Service life and Disposal of military products

Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated April 8, 2012 No. 8-V

     To ratify Agreement on cooperation between the member States of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in the field of development, production, operation, repair, modernization, extension of service life and disposal of military products, signed in Moscow on December 10, 2010.

     President of the Republic of Kazakhstan N. NAZARBAYEV

  AGREEMENT on Cooperation between the Member States Collective Security Treaty Organization in the field of development, production, operation, repair, modernization, extension of service life and disposal of military products

     The member States of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (hereinafter referred to as the CSTO), hereinafter referred to as the Parties, guided by Agreement on the Basic Principles of Military-Technical Cooperation between the States - the parties to the Collective Security Treaty of May 15, 1992, signed on June 20, 2000, as well as other international treaties concluded within the framework of the CSTO between the Parties on defense, security, military-economic and military-technical cooperation, strengthening mutually beneficial military-economic cooperation in the context of the established and newly formed industrial and scientifictechnical cooperation of defense industry enterprises, taking into account the need for effective organization of the entire complex of measures for development, production, operation, repair, modernization, prolongation of service life and disposal of military products of the Parties, in order to further improve weapons systems and equip the armed forces, other troops and military formations of the Parties with promising models of weapons and military equipment

     have agreed on the following:

  Article 1

     For the purposes of this Agreement, the basic terms having the following meanings are used:       "military-economic cooperation" is an area of interstate relations related to the interaction of national defense-industrial complexes in the development, production, modernization, repair, maintenance and disposal of military products; "participants in military-economic cooperation" - government agencies, enterprises, associations and organizations of the Parties;       "military products" (hereinafter referred to as PVN) - weapons, military equipment, documentation, works, services, results of intellectual activity, including exclusive rights to them (intellectual property) and information in the field of military-economic and military-technical cooperation, as well as any other products classified by the legislation of the Parties to PVN;       "authorized bodies" - state bodies and organizations of the Parties responsible for issues of state regulation of military-technical and/or military-economic cooperation in accordance with their national legislation;       "results of intellectual activity" - scientific, design, technical and technological solutions contained in technical and scientific and technical documentation, recorded on tangible media, as well as contained in prototypes, mock-ups of products obtained during research, development and technological work; "intellectual property" is understood in the meaning specified in article 2 of the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization, signed in Stockholm, July 14, 1967, as amended on October 2, 1979; "information" - information about subjects, facts, events, phenomena and processes related to the subject of agreements (contracts) concluded between the Parties in the course of military-economic and/or military-technical cooperation, their execution and/or the results obtained, regardless of the form of their representation.

  Article 2

     This Agreement defines the directions, procedure and conditions of interaction between the Parties in the field of development, production, operation, repair, modernization, extension of service life and disposal of PVN.This Agreement does not apply to the supply of materials, semi-finished products, components and other material resources necessary for the production of PVN, carried out within the framework of bilateral intergovernmental agreements on the production and scientific and technical cooperation of enterprises of the defense industries of the Parties.

  Article 3

     The authorized bodies of the Parties for the implementation of this Agreement are:       from the Republic of Armenia - the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia; from the Republic of Belarus - the State Military-Industrial Committee of the Republic of Belarus; from the Republic of Kazakhstan - the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan; from the Kyrgyz Republic - the Ministry of Economic Regulation of the Kyrgyz Republic; from the Russian Federation - the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation;       from the Republic of Tajikistan - the Ministry of Energy and Industry of the Republic of Tajikistan; from the Republic of Uzbekistan - the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Uzbekistan.       In the event of a change in the authorized body, each Party, through diplomatic channels, notifies the CSTO Secretary General, who notifies the other Parties in accordance with the established procedure.

  Article 4

     Within the framework of this Agreement, the Parties cooperate in the following areas::       development, testing and production of air defense systems; operation of weapons and military equipment; training of specialists in the operation and repair of weapons and military equipment; repair and modernization of weapons and military equipment; prolongation of service life of weapons and military equipment; disposal (liquidation) of weapons and military equipment that have reached their service life (resource).       Cooperation in these areas is carried out on the basis of programs of military-technical and military-economic cooperation of the Parties.

  Article 5

     The procedure for carrying out work in the field of development (creation) The PVN is determined by separate agreements concluded between the interested Parties.

  Article 6

     Air defense supplies under this Agreement are carried out under agreements (contracts) based on approved bilateral lists.       The lists indicated in the first paragraph of this article, containing lists of customers and suppliers of air defense systems from among the participants in military-economic cooperation, as well as the nomenclature and volumes of supplied air defense systems, are approved by the authorized bodies of the Parties.       The mechanisms for the formation of lists and the delivery of PVN are determined by agreement (or by agreement) between the authorized bodies of the Parties.       PVN is transferred from the customs territory of one Party to the customs territory of the other Party in accordance with the national legislation of each Party according to extracts from the approved lists of supplied PVN issued by the authorized bodies of the Parties, and is exempt from customs duties and fees.

  Article 7

     The Parties are not entitled to transfer (sell) to third states, international organizations, as well as individuals and legal entities the personal protective equipment received under this Agreement, without the prior written consent of the Party supplying such products.       The supplying Party has the right to monitor the intended use of PVN supplied under this Agreement in the same manner as determined by Protocol on the procedure for Monitoring the Intended Use of Military Products Supplied under the Agreement on the Basic Principles of Military-Technical Cooperation between the States Parties to the Collective Security Treaty of May 15, 1992, signed on June 20, 2000.

  Article 8

     The Parties, in accordance with their national legislation, exchange information on specific cooperation issues related to the implementation of this Agreement.       Information obtained during cooperation under this Agreement may not be used to the detriment of the interests of either Party.       The protection and transfer of information constituting classified information is carried out in accordance with the Agreement on Mutual Security of Classified Information within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization of June 18, 2004 and international treaties concluded between the Parties.

  Article 9

     The Parties acknowledge that the IPN may contain the results of intellectual activity, the rights to which belong to the Parties and/or participants in military-economic cooperation.       The Party that has received the specified information is responsible in the event of its unauthorized use and/or access by unauthorized legal entities and individuals to the results of intellectual activity, including intellectual property, the rights to which belong to the Party(s) and/or participants in military-economic cooperation, and ensures, within the framework of Agreements on mutual protection of intellectual property rights, Due measures for their legal protection, protection and prevention of misuse have been taken and used in the course of military-economic cooperation within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization of October 6, 2007.

  Article 10

By agreement of the Parties, amendments and additions may be made to this Agreement, which are an integral part of it, which are formalized by the relevant protocol and enter into force in accordance with the procedure provided for in Article 12 of this Agreement.

  Article 11

     Disputes and disagreements regarding the interpretation and application of this Agreement are resolved through consultations and negotiations between the Parties concerned.       All disputes related to the supply of military equipment carried out for the implementation of this Agreement, which may arise between the Parties, are resolved on the terms stipulated in the agreements (contracts) concluded by them.

  Article 12

     This Agreement shall enter into force on the date of deposit of the fourth notification to the depositary on the completion by the signatories of the internal procedures necessary for its entry into force.       For the Parties who have completed the necessary internal procedures later, this Agreement shall enter into force on the date of delivery of the relevant documents to the depositary.

  Article 13

     This Agreement is valid for the duration of the Collective Security Treaty of May 15, 1992, unless the Parties agree otherwise.       Each Party may withdraw from this Agreement by sending a written notification to the depositary no later than six months before the withdrawal date, having settled the financial and other obligations that have arisen during the validity of this Agreement.

     Done in Moscow on December 10, 2010, in one original copy in the Russian language. The original copy is kept at the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, which will send a certified copy to each Signatory to this Agreement.

     For the Republic of Armenia For the Russian Federation

     For the Republic of Belarus For the Republic of Tajikistan

     For the Republic of Kazakhstan For the Republic of Uzbekistan

     For the Kyrgyz Republic

President    

Republic of Kazakhstan     

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