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Title in national language: 
Закон Республики Казахстан "О естественных монополиях и регулируемых рынках"
Draft: 
No
Revision of previous policy?: 
No
Effective Start Year: 
2018
Scope: 
National
Document Type: 
Law
Economic Sector: 
Energy
Energy Types: 
Coal, Oil, Power, Gas
Issued by: 
Office of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan 
Notes: 
No official English translation available (Google Translate).
Overall Summary: 
The Law on Natural Monopolies and Regulated Markets (No. 204-VI of 2018) aims to (a) achieving a balance between the interests of consumers and natural monopolies; (b) define the legal basis of state regulation of activities in the areas of natural monopolies; (c) ensuring the availability of regulated services to consumers; (d) protection of interests of consumers and subjects of natural monopolies; (e) ensuring transparency of procedures of state regulation in the areas of natural monopolies; and (f) stimulating the improvement of the quality and demand for regulated services.
Governance
Energy management principles: 
1. The spheres of natural monopolies in the Republic of Kazakhstan include regulated services: 1) for the transportation of oil and (or) oil products through the main pipelines, with the exception of their transportation for the purpose of transit through the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan and export outside the Republic of Kazakhstan; 2) for the storage, transportation of commercial gas through connecting, main gas pipelines and (or) gas distribution systems, operation of group tank installations, as well as transportation of raw gas through connecting gas pipelines, with the exception of storage, transportation of commercial gas for transit through the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan and export outside the Republic of Kazakhstan; 3) for the transmission of electrical energy; 4) for the production, transmission, distribution and (or) supply of thermal energy, with the exception of thermal energy generated using heat from soil, groundwater, rivers, reservoirs, waste water from industrial enterprises and power plants, sewage treatment facilities; 5) on technical dispatching of supply to the grid and consumption of electric energy; 6) on the organization of balancing the production and consumption of electrical energy; [...]