THE HEAD OF THE GOVERNMENT HAS SIGNED THE LAW «ON IMPLEMENTATION OF AMENDMENTS AND ADDITIONS TO THE SEVERAL LEGISLATIVE ACTS OF RK ON THE MATTER OF ROAD-TRANSPORT INFRUSTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT LOGISTICS AND AIR SERVICES».

The head of the government signed the Law «On amendments and additions to some legislative acts of Kazakhstan on the development of road transport infrastructure, transport logistics and air services». The draft law was designed to implement five steps of «Plan of the nation - 100 concrete steps to implement five institutional reforms».

In 2013 has passed the reform of the road sector, in result of which the National operator of Highway Administration was created.

The amendments to the Law will allow the National operator to obtain a state guarantee to raise funds of non-government loan. This will enable to reconstruct the roads and to allot the national operator with functions of roads maintenance and development of roadside service; creating the conditions for attraction the National operator the investments and possibility of repayment of investors invested funds through the fees of the toll roads.

Within the amendments to the Law of RK «On transport» it is proposed an approval of a single transport document by the state authority body.

In addition, for an effective implementation of combined transport on the legislative level the operator of multimodal transport will be determined, as well as relationships of customer and carriers with multimodal transport operator will be regulated.

The functions of combined transport operator might fulfill any physical or legal body, the same freight forwarders, while taking responsibility for the safety of cargo and its on time delivery throughout the consignment.

With a view to develop container transportation it is proposed to revise approaches of classifying the services of main railway networks to natural monopoly.

On the matter of the civil aviation industry development this draft law prescribes the definition of «air hub» understanding, the requirements to the aviation hub terminal.

In order to use the air transportation potential properly, number of changes in the legislation of RK for the implementation of electronic document while transportation of goods, as well as establishing of unified requirements and technological procedures at international airports of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the aviation transit of cargo, which will significantly reduce the speed of cargo handling, from 10 days to 4 hours.

Beginning from 2017, a handover of tariff regulation functions of air transportation to the branch of competent authority (CCA), also increase of efficiency of state regulation of aviation is prescribed, by orienting an activity of the Committee of Civil Aviation on the model of the British Civil Aviation Agency.