On the Approval of the Agreement on Cooperation among the CIS Member States in the Field of Management of Waste from Electronic and Electrical Equipment
Resolution No. 188 of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated March 20, 2026
The Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan RESOLVES:
1. To approve the attached Agreement on Cooperation among the CIS Member States in the Field of Management of Waste from Electronic and Electrical Equipment, signed in Dushanbe on June 1, 2018.
2. This resolution shall enter into force on the date of its signing.
Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan
O. Bektenov
Note. The text of the international Agreement attached to the regulatory legal act is not official. An officially certified copy of the international Agreement of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the languages of the conclusion can be obtained from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, which is responsible for the registration, accounting, and storage of international Agreements of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Approved by Resolution No. 188 of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated March 20, 2026.
AGREEMENT on cooperation among the CIS member states in the field of waste management of electronic and electrical equipment.
The governments of the states parties to this Agreement, hereinafter referred to as the Parties,
based on the provisions of the Agreement on a Free Trade Zone dated October 18, 2011,
building on the provisions of the Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Industry and the Establishment of the Council for Industrial Policy of the States Parties to the CIS dated May 30, 2012, and the Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Environmental Protection of the States Parties to the Commonwealth of Independent States dated May 31, 2013,
In order to create favourable conditions for mutually beneficial cooperation between enterprises of the CIS member states and to ensure the maximum involvement of waste from electronic and electrical equipment (hereinafter referred to as WEEE) in economic circulation as a source of secondary material and energy resources, with the aim of preserving and saving primary natural resources,
Taking into account the technical guidelines for the transboundary movement of electrical and electronic waste and used electrical and electronic equipment, in particular those concerning the distinction between waste and non‑waste in accordance with the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal of 22 March 1989 (4–15 May 2015, Geneva, Switzerland),
guided by international treaties and the legislation of the States Parties to this Agreement,
have agreed as follows:
Article 1 of the Definitions
The concepts used in this Agreement mean the following:
secondary material resources in the regional system for handling EEE – EEE that, after additional processing, are potentially suitable for use in production to obtain raw materials, products and (or) energy;
use of EEE – the application of secondary material resources for the production of goods and the performance of work (services) and (or) the generation of energy.
classification of WEEE is the distribution of waste into groups based on a set of priority characteristics: by hazard class for the environment and human health, origin, aggregate state, chemical composition and other characteristics necessary for the implementation of safe and resource–saving waste management activities.;
The WEEE hazard class is a characteristic of waste that determines the degree of its possible harmful effects, direct or indirect, on the environment, in accordance with internationally recognized criteria for classifying hazardous waste into a specific hazard class.
Hazardous waste includes categories of waste that are recognized as hazardous and subject to control in accordance with the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, dated March 22, 1989, as well as waste that is designated as hazardous in accordance with the legislation of the states parties to this Agreement.
Best available technologies are technologies for the collection, storage, transportation, processing, disposal, neutralization, placement, and removal of hazardous and environmentally hazardous waste, based on the latest scientific and technical achievements, aimed at reducing the negative impact of waste on the environment, the lives and health of citizens, and available for practical application taking into account the current level of technological and economic development.
WEEE management – activities related to documented organizational and technological operations for regulating waste management (in accordance with the legislation of the States Parties to this Agreement), including the prevention and minimization of waste generation, the use of waste as secondary resources, accounting and control of waste generation, accumulation and disposal, as well as their collection, storage, transportation, processing, disposal, neutralization, placement, disposal and cross-border movement;
OEEO is equipment that has lost its consumer properties, including components and assemblies that are part of the equipment at the time it is taken out of service;
OEEO recycling is technological operations involving changes to the physical, chemical, or biotechnological properties of OEEO for their reuse.
the regional WEEE management system is a set of measures and measures of a regulatory, economic, organizational, managerial, technical and technological nature agreed upon by the authorized bodies of the Parties, as a result of which conditions for environmentally safe processing, neutralization, placement, burial, transportation of WEEE should be created in the participating states of this Agreement, including by harmonizing standards for the management of WEEE; optimizing the safe cross-border movement of WEEE; creating conditions for the modernization of existing and new WEEE processing facilities; reducing the environmental burden, reducing the volume of hazardous substances from WEEE released into the environment; increasing the share of secondary material resources extracted from WEEE during their processing; sharing practices and development of competencies in the field of WEEE management;
The authorized state body in the field of waste management (the competent authority) is an executive body of state power that, in accordance with the legislation of its state, is vested with powers in the field of waste management and is responsible for implementing state policy in the field of waste management, including coordinating the activities of other state bodies in this area.
Electronic and electrical equipment is products intended for industrial and (or) household use that use electric current or electromagnetic fields, as well as equipment for generating, transmitting, and measuring such currents and fields, which consists of a complex of interacting and mutually complementary mechanisms, machines, instruments, and devices involved in a single technological scheme, including schemes based on electronic devices and components.
Article 2
The purpose of this Agreement is to promote the creation of a regional WEEE management system of the States Parties to this Agreement to maximize the involvement of such waste in economic circulation as a source of secondary material resources through the development of the best available technologies.
Article 3
The main objectives of this Agreement are:
to facilitate the development by the states parties to this Agreement of national systems of legislative and other regulatory acts based on agreed principles and aimed at reducing the environmental burden, decreasing the volume of hazardous substances from EEEs entering the environment, and increasing the share of secondary material resources extracted from EEEs during their processing;
to facilitate the development and harmonization of standards for the management of EEEs;
to create conditions and facilitate the optimization of the use of existing facilities and the creation of new facilities for the processing of EEEs.
содействие разработке государствами — parties to this Agreement национальных sets of measures of an economic, methodological and organizational nature, agreed upon by the states — parties to this Agreement and aimed at ensuring the exchange of knowledge and experience in the field of handling hazardous and environmentally hazardous waste, and at improving the level of training and qualifications of experts and specialists in this field.
Article 4
The parties cooperate in the field of WEEE management in the following main areas:
identification and coordination of priority areas of cooperation;
coordination of development directions and updating of regulatory support, taking into account the most successful international practices, based on common approaches to the classification of WEEE and subject to harmonization of standards when dealing with them;
development of the institute of public-private partnership in order to accelerate the modernization of the production base available in the member States of this Agreement and improve its technical level;
содействие in building a regional system aimed at optimizing the management of EEE, including economic, environmental, technological, and transport components;
development and support for the implementation of joint measures aimed at the sustainable development of the said regional system, including joint programs and projects, including the development and promotion of the use of secondary material resources obtained as a result of processing EEE;
- содействие в создании совместных производств, их интеграции в региональные и глобальные цепочки добавленной стоимости, оптимизации использования действующих и строительству новых предприятий по переработке ОЭЭО с учетом установленных требований при проектировании, строительстве и реконструкции действующих предприятий, сооружений и иных объектов;- содействие в разработке мероприятий государственной поддержки и стимулирования в области обращения с ОЭЭО;
Support and implementation, within the timeframes and in forms acceptable to the interested states parties to the Agreement, of the principle of extended producer responsibility, under which the manufacturer (supplier) is held responsible for the collection, processing, reuse and disposal of EEE released into circulation on the territory of a state party to this Agreement;
cooperation in the field of training, professional retraining, advanced training and retention of personnel in the field of EEE management;
exchange of experience in the field of collecting EEE from the population.
Article 5
The Parties shall carry out mutually beneficial cooperation through their authorized (competent) bodies in accordance with this Agreement, while observing international treaties and the legislation of the states parties to this Agreement.
Article 6
The Parties shall determine the list of their authorized (competent) bodies, which shall be submitted to the depositary upon submission of the notification regarding the completion of the domestic procedures required for this Agreement to enter into force. Each Party shall inform the depositary within 30 days from the date of such decision regarding any changes to the list of authorized (competent) bodies; the depositary shall then notify the other Parties.
Article 7
The authorized (competent) bodies of the Parties shall cooperate by conducting consultations, exchanging information and views on issues related to the treatment of environmental emergencies in the States Parties to this Agreement, in order to develop mutually agreed decisions and measures.
Article 8
The coordinator of cooperation on issues related to the interaction between the states parties to this Agreement in the field of handling OEEO is the Council for Industrial Policy of the CIS member states.
Article 9
Organizations possessing the necessary experience and expertise, as determined in accordance with the legislation of the states parties to this Agreement, may act as consultants in the process of forming a regional system for the management of OEEOs of the states parties to this Agreement.
Article 10
This Agreement does not affect the rights and obligations of each Party arising from other international treaties to which its state is a party.
Article 11
This Agreement may be amended by mutual agreement of the Parties, which are an integral part of it, which are formalized by the relevant protocol.
Article 12
Disputes between the Parties arising from the application and interpretation of this Agreement shall be resolved through consultations and negotiations between the interested Parties or through another procedure agreed upon by the Parties.
Article 13
This Agreement shall enter into force 30 days after the date on which the depositary receives the third notification from the Parties signing it regarding the completion of the domestic procedures necessary for its entry into force.
For Parties that have completed the domestic procedures later, this Agreement shall enter into force 30 days after the date on which the depositary receives the relevant documents.
Article 14
This Agreement, upon its entry into force, is open for accession by any CIS member state by means of submitting an instrument of accession to the depositary.
For the acceding state, this Agreement enters into force 30 days after the depositary receives the instrument of accession.
Article 15
This Agreement is concluded for an indefinite period. Each Party has the right to withdraw from this Agreement by sending a written notice of its intention to the depositary no later than six months before the withdrawal and by settling the obligations that have arisen during the period of this Agreement.
Done in the city of Dushanbe on June 1, 2018, in one original copy in the Russian language. The original copy is kept in the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States, which will send a certified copy to each state that has signed this Agreement.
For the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan
For the Government of the Russian Federation
For the Government of the Republic of Armenia
For the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan
For the Government of the Republic of Belarus
For the Government of Turkmenistan
For the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan
For the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan
For the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic
For the Government of Ukraine
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