Projects

Support for institutional, administrative and legal reform, AAP 2001 Improving the Licensing System for the Republic of Kazakhstan

01.03.2005 - 31.10.2005

Kazakhstan

Overall project value (EUR)150000 Euro, 195 000 USD
No. of staff provided1
Name of ClientThe Ministry Economy and Budget Planning of the RK
Financing agencyEuropean Commission (EC)
Name of partnersHTSPE Limited (United Kingdom)
Detailed Narrative Description of ProjectKazakhstan has launched the process of re-designing the country\'s economic structure transforming the certainly controlled command economy into a fully-fledged market economy. The state has operated a gradual transition towards market economy, including large-scale privatizations, establishment of a liberal trade regime, convertible currency, creation of adequate legal framework. Kazakhstan was currently negotiating its accession to the World Trade Organization, with a hope to join it by 2006. The main objective of the project was intensification of a negotiating process along with the increasing political emphasis on WTO accession in the government\'s discourse.
Detailed Narrative Description of Services providedCompany\'s main tasks were:
1) Analysing the current situation (legislation and current issues, including their complication); for example, follow the entrepreneur’s path when setting up a new business.
2) Assessing the weak and strong points of the current legislation, including its efficiency.
3) Identifying the needs of the entrepreneurs, of the Licensor-bodies, and of the State.
4) Listing industries needing to provide an environmental impact assessment (Seveso) as a condition for getting an administrative license.
5) Listing the constraints set up by the legal environment, including the relations with other registers like the Company register.
6) Identifying best international practices.
7) Submitting outlines of the law on administrative licensing to the Beneficiary.
8) Proposing a procedure for monitoring the Licensor-bodies.
9) Drafting a law on administrative licensing with its transitional provisions.
10) Writing guidelines for the Licensor-bodies.
11) Training staff of the Beneficiary and the of the Licensor-bodies.