– How can the countries of
the Eurasian economic union
develop cooperation with
other countries and integration
associations?
– Development of integration
processes emphasizes need for
development of trade and economic
relationship with all countries and
regions of the world. There are
already some positive prospectives
of development of cooperation of
the EEU with various integration
associations and the states of Europe,
Asia and America.
More than thirty countries,
among them – India, Egypt, Turkey,
Iran, showed willingness to expand
trade and economic cooperation
with member-countries of the
Eurasian integration process. The
signing of the Agreement on
creation of a free trade zone
between the EEU and Vietnam which
took place in Kazakhstan on the 29th
of May, 2015 became one of the
most important events of this year.
It was the first international treaty on
preferential trade terms signed by
the EEU with the third party.
It should be noted that the free
trade zone with Vietnam gives new
opportunities for domestic producers
which in the long term can occupy
niches on the Vietnamese market.
We expect that the free trade
zone will facilitate to creation of co-
productions between Kazakhstan
and Vietnam, to accumulation of
volumes of mutual investments.
To the present it has been
adopted eight priority directions on
trade and economic cooperation
with other countries within the
Eurasian economic union. Among
them are: the European Union, the
CIS, the Pacific Rim, the Middle East,
the Black Sea and Caspian regions,
North, Latin America and Africa.
The European Union, China, India
and Iran are of special interest for
Kazakhstan.
In general, more than 30
countries show interest in
cooperation with the EEU.
- How fully are the interests
of our country respected and
consulted by the supranational
governing bodies?
– As you know, a basis of
the Treaty on the EEU is the
arrangements which were earlier
signed by the states within
functioning of the Customs union
and the Common economic space.
These arrangements allow us to
interact entirely on the principles of
sovereign equality and respect of all
national interests of each integration
process participant.
The EEU supranational governing
body is EEK, and all decisions made
by it are based on consensus. I will
also note that the Treaty on the
EEU possess a sufficient arsenal of
tools providing the sovereignty
and independence of any member-
state (the principles of the UN,
consensus, hierarchy of bodies, equal
representation of members of the
EEK Board and officials).
Thus, a key mechanism for
sovereignty preservation within a
supranational body is consensus at
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decision-making.
It means that no decision can
be made without our consent.
The consensus mechanism of
strategically significant decisions
making at all levels of integration is
an effective system of checks and
balances. It excludes any possibility
of domination of any state.
– Is domestic business in
the Eurasian economic union
competitive?
– The Eurasian economic
union creates an extensive field of
opportunities for domestic business.
Firstly, the establishment of the
Customs union, the EEP and the EEU
investment increased investment
appeal of our country.
In the Eurasian integration
association Kazakhstan has a big
advantage due to rather favorable
conditions for business.
We managed to build a quite
effective tax system. At that it is
rather stable and has an optimum tax
burden for tax payers.
Thanks to more liberal tax policy
and investment climate, than the
partners in the Eurasian economic
union have, Kazakhstan has good
chances to attract foreign capital and
also capital from the EEU countries to
creation co-productions.
In particular, the Russian business
is attracted to Kazakhstan by the
favorable investment legislation and
effective measures of businessmen
support, and also, which is extremely
important, by political and economic
stability.
Therefore I believe that fears
concerning uncompetitiveness
of our producers in the EEU are
unreasonable.
So, export from Kazakhstan into
the EEU member-states increased
in general almost by 80% (about 3,6
billion dollars in 2009 to 6,4 billion
dollars in 2014). The share of the
processed goods in the total amount
of export into the EEU countries
increased from 45% in 2009 to 60%
in 2014.
At that end products export from
Kazakhstan into the EEU member-
states from 2009 to 2014 increased
by 3 times – from 36 million dollars
to 107 million dollars respectively.
These figures clearly confirm
possibilities of the Kazakhstan
producers.
I especially want to emphasize
that the Kazakhstan business
community represented by the
National chamber of businessmen
of Kazakhstan actively participates in
decision-making of the EEU bodies.
Speaking about decisions of the EEU
bodies, I would like to add that since
the 1st of April of the current year it
is conducted the Regulatory Impact
Assessment (RIA) of all decisions
connected with interests of business
which will allow to make the
weighed decisions.
Moreover, business communities
of the EEU member-states created
the Business council which will
increase a role of business at
decision-making. Thereby it facilitates
to the development of the fair
and healthy competition in our
association.
It should be noted that the
Treaty on the EEU lays foundation
of interaction in economic spheres,
among which are power economy
and pharmaceutics.
In the conditions of continental
«isolation» decrease in transport
expenses is the major system
aspect for economy growth and
diversification.
At railway transportation of goods
from one state into the emerging
countries through seaports of other
state and in the opposite direction
it is applied a unified (internal) tariff
which is much lower than the transit
one. As I have already mentioned,
according to certain estimates
Kazakhstani consignors can save
up to 240 million dollars annually.
Respectively, competitiveness of the
Kazakhstani production on foreign
markets will increase.
Availability of transport
infrastructure will promote
strengthening of a transit role of
Kazakhstan between Europe and
China.
One more major direction of
cooperation is a sphere of power
industry. It is planned to create a
common power market by means
of the national power markets
integration of Belarus, Kazakhstan
and Russia by 2019. It will allow to
unlock an export potential of the
Kazakhstani electrical power branch
which by 2030 will have exceeded six
billion kilowatt-hours.
It is provided that a common
market of medicines on the basis
of the GMP standards (good
manufacturing practices) begins
functioning on the 1st of January,
2016. Such a market based on
the international standards in
addition to elimination of trade
barriers will allow to provide the
population with access to safe and
qualitative medicines, will increase
competitiveness of the Kazakhstani
pharmaceutical enterprises on
the world market. According to
the estimates of the National
chamber of businessmen, the
largest pharmaceutical enterprises
of Kazakhstan plan to increase the
volumes of medicine export on these
conditions to 360 million dollars a
year in 2016.
These figures confirm prospects
of the developing integration
process, its opportunity to increase
competitiveness, modernize existing
and create new productions in non-
oil sectors of the republic economy.
Sulugul BAKESOVA
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AT OUR NEIGHBOURS
THE STATE DUMA
OF RUSSIA FOUND
MONEY FOR SOCIAL
NEEDS
The budget-2016 will be more social. The State
Duma of the Russian Federation found additional 315
billion rubles in the government draft document.
Additional money was found «only due to optimization
of budgetary funds, due to reduction of inefficient
expenses», told to journalists Andrey Makarov (“United
Russia”) - the head of the State Duma Committee on
budget and taxes.
He specified that it includes funds which were in
deposits and did not work for the national economy for
many years.
In his turn, the head of the “United Russia” fraction and
the vice speaker Vladimir Vasilyev told where exactly the
found billions will be directed to. In particular, he noted,
additional 170 billion will be directed on support of regions,
50 billion will be invested for creation of new workplaces
at schools and elimination of the third shift there, 43 billion
will be sent for support of the Crimea and Sevastopol, and
6,8 billion from it – for construction of the Crimean railroad.
Besides, the money will be directed on support of physical
training and sport in rural areas, development of science
and modern technologies. Landowners are not forgotten
as well – more than nine billion rubles will be allocated for
their support. The remained 300 million are supposed to be
allocated for development of regional mass media.
The vice speaker of the State Duma of the “United
Russia”, the secretary of the Party General council Sergey
Neverov emphasized that the budget-2016 allows to
resolve those issues which regions and citizens of the
country face with.
Members of the budget committee, besides, approved
the amendment which will expand parliamentary control
of distribution of 500 billion rubles of the government
Reserve fund. From now then the government will make
the decision on use of reserve funds not individually, but
together with the State Duma and the Federation Council.
THE DESTINY OF «OWNERLESS»
RUSSIAN HOUSES AND LAND PROPERTIES WILL BE
DECIDED BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES
Hereafter the destiny of unfinished buildings,
abandoned houses and dachas, «nobody’s» land
properties will be decided by local authorities. They
will manage to find new lawful owners for them.
ЕIf the real estate has been registered in the State land
registry for more than five years, and the owner has not
appeared, so from the moment of the termination of this
term the Federal Registration Service is obliged to inform
local governments on it within 10 working days. And
the latter, in their turn, are obliged to start procedure of
recognition of objects as ownerless through the court with
all the consequences that come with it.
Since the 1st of December, 2015 the new amendment
to the law came into force. These amendments are
connected with order of ownerless real estate objects
registration. In the country it is, according to the expert
estimates, a half of them. (There are no official statistics on
number of ownerless objects data about which is registered
in the State land registry. – Author`s note). And after the
1st of March, 2018, the municipalities will be able to initiate
the procedure of recognition of real estate as ownerless
without waiting for owners. In this case they will receive
the property right under the court decision. Innovations,
however, will help the local governments to make by the
«X» time a full picture of ownerless real estate on their
territories and fully adjust in this sphere.
Generally amendments will be connected with interests
of two categories of citizens. «Taciturn» successors who
were too lazy to formalize documents in time, but they,
nevertheless, use the property. And owners of so-called
incomplete constructions – expensive private mansions
which after completion of construction are actually used
though formally are registered as objects of incomplete
construction.
And if careless successors need to hurry to finish
procedure of lawful inheritance in order to pay taxes for the
received property, owners of incomplete constructions can
be effectively fought by municipal authorities in order to
force them to bear tax burden as well as other owners.
«Anyway, transfer process of ownerless objects into
municipal property is conducted in a judicial proceeding
and does not mean an automatic nationalization of
property», – the deputy head of Committee on real estate
of Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian
Federation Victor Zhurba explains to the «Rossiyskaya
Gazeta» newspaper.
By the way, the amendments to the Russian law specify
also an order of document delivery for the state registration
of the rights for real estate. From now on officials are
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obliged to do it. If for any reason a citizen decides to deliver
documents for registration independently – the initiative is
not forbidden.
It is possible to verify data on an owner against common
registration system on the site of the Federal Registration
Service (www.rosreestr.ru) in the section ”Справочная
информация по объектам недвижимости в режиме
online” (Reference Information on Real Estate Objects in
the Online Mode). It is possible to find data on registration
characteristics of a real estate object (address, area, year of
clearing for operation), and also all history of transition of
the rights for a real estate object from previous years with
the address or cadastral number of a real estate object.
THE PORTAL OF STATE SERVICES
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
WILL BECOME MORE AVAILABLE TO PAYMENTS
As the press service of The Central Bank of the
Russian Federation reports, citizens will be able to
repay duties on rendering the state and municipal
services, and also to make other payments on the
Common Government Services Portal with use of
information systems of any bank of the country.
Today these transactions are carried out by limited
number of banks. The Central Bank of the Russian
Federation proposed to provide all banks of the country
with access of connection to a payment gateway of the
Common portal for carrying out the certain payments. The
initiative also concerns municipal services, possibility of
fee payment and implementation of other payments on
regional and departmental portals of the state.
It will allow to increase a stream of online payments
into state and municipal budgets. Besides, such a step will
increase the competition between emitting banks and
will promote closer interaction of government bodies and
financial structures, is told in the message of the Central
Bank of the Russian Federation.
Our company carries out activities for warehousing
and processing of freights. At present there was a
question concerning storage of alcoholic products in
our warehouses. If our company is not an importer and
offtaker of alcoholic products, do we have to obtain the
license for implementation of activities for storage and
wholesale realization of alcoholic products if we only
provide our rooms for storage? May we render our services
in warehousing to clients – to the importers of alcoholic
products having the license for storage and wholesale
realization of alcoholic products in which the address of our
object is specified without obtaining thus the above license
in favor of our company?
According to subitem 16) «About permissions and notices»,
for licensing separate kinds of activity or actions (operations) in
spheres of production and turnover of ethyl alcohol and alcoholic
products, production of tobacco products are subject to item 1 of
Art. 28 of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
According to subitem 11) of Art. 1 of the Law of the Republic of
Kazakhstan of July 16, 1999 «About state regulation of production
and turnover of ethyl alcohol and alcoholic products» (further –
the law), warehouse are the specialized stationary rooms and (or)
platforms (for storage of ethyl alcohol) intended only for storage,
reception and output of ethyl alcohol and (or) alcoholic products,
conforming to qualification requirements.
According to subitem 17) of Art. 1 of the law, stationary rooms
are capital buildings, constructions or their parts provided with
water supply, power supply and sewerage, having the base and
which displacement is impossible without causing damage to
their loadbearing construction.
According to item 21 of Qualification requirements and
the list of the documents confirming compliance with it, for
implementation of activity in spheres of production of ethyl
alcohol, production of alcoholic products, storage and wholesale
and retail realization of alcoholic products (except for activities for
storage and realization of alcoholic products in the territory of its
production), the approved order of the Minister of Finance of the
Republic of Kazakhstan of January 30, 2015 No. 60 prescribes the
necessity of:
existence of the warehouse intended only for storage, reception
and the output of alcoholic products located out of buildings and
in territories of the organizations of health care, education, sports
and health improving, sports and technical constructions, gas
stations, trade markets, cultural and leisure organizations on the
property right or on the right of temporary possession (use), free
use, and also not occupied with other licensee with providing to
the copy the lease contract or free use – in case of the conclusion
of these contracts for term less than one year.
According to Art. 581 of the Civil Code of the Republic of
Kazakhstan on the contract for leasing a building or structure, the
lessor shall be obliged to transfer for the temporary possession and
use of the tenant building or construction.
According to Art. 582 of this code, contract for leasing a
building or structure shall be in writing by drafting a single
document signed by the parties.
On the basis of the stated above the lessor signs the lease
contract where undertakes to transfer to temporary possession
and use to the tenant a warehouse. Thus, the tenant needs to
obtain the license for implementation of activities for storage and
wholesale realization of alcoholic products.
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SINCE 2016 BELARUS
WILL CALCULATE THE GDP IN
A NEW WAY
Belarus will master the western method of gross
domestic product calculation and after that the GDP
indicator of the country will increase.
Since the 1st of January, 2016 the National statistical
committee will master the standard of GDP calculation
recommended by the UN since 2008, reports the site of the
department.
The standard of national accounts-2008 has been
adopted by the USA, Canada, the plan for introduction of
CHC-2008 has been developed in each of the CIS countries.
Essentially new interpretation of a number of important
economic operations is provided in the updated standard.
It is a reflection of expenses on research activity, military
expenses, services of financial mediation, services in
accommodation in own apartments.
Today the majority of the countries which have already
introduced the CHC-2008 included illegal activity into GDP
volume. It is drug production and trafficking, prostitution,
smuggling of alcohol and tobacco.
The main problem for the Republic of Belarus at
analyzing of this direction is selection of objective sources
of information. The assessment made on the basis of data
of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and expert assumptions
showed the insignificant volume of such an activity.
Therefore illegal activity will not be reflected as a part of
GDP.
According to new methodological approaches the
absolute value of GDP for 2012 will increase by 3,4%,
reported the National Statistical Committee of the Republic
of Belarus for demonstration of a new method.
At the same time the department assured that growth
rates of GDP will not change as methodological changes
will concern GDP both in basic, and in reporting the periods.
THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE OF BELARUS:
INCLUSION OF THE VAT INTO TARIFFS FOR LIGHT AND
GAS IS POSSIBLE
At the present moment the highly charged
question of inclusion of a value added tax into
tariffs for the population is considered by the
Administration of the President of Belarus.
At the present time there is a so-called tax privilege
for the population: organizations rendering services on
gas and power supply include the VAT into expenses. If
this privilege is cancelled, and the tax which makes 20% is
included into tariffs for the population, it will be necessary
to pay for light and gas more. The decision has not been
made yet, reported the press service of the RB Ministry of
Finance, however this measure is provided in a package of
documents on a tax policy for the next year.
However, as it was emphasized in the Ministry of
Finance, increase of utilities cost should not exceed the
established rate of 5 dollars a year.
Increase of utilities tariffs for the population is
provided by the program of reforms which the Belarusian
government has to accept in order to receive the next loan
from the International Monetary Fund.
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