A mandatory issuing accompanying notes for the import and export of certain types of agricultural crops will go into effect from February 10, 2023.

The Reference Control Bank published the Order "On Amendments to some orders of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan" dated November 22, 2022 No. 1178 on its website. The order becomes effective after 60 calendar days from the date of official publication, which was on November 25, 2022.

Amendments were made to the "Order No. 1104 dated November 16, 2020", the list of goods, for which accompanying notes are issued under the pilot project, was expanded. 

Until February 10, 2023, as part of a pilot project for goods imported and exported to the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan from the territory of the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union, AIGs are issued for the following product names: Other wheat and meslin other than durum wheat, seed soft wheat and meslin, other hard wheat, peas, seed rye, grits and flour wheat, other cereals, sunflower seeds, seeds of fodder plants for sowing, other residues from sieving, grinding, etc. methods of processing grains of other cereals, non-granulated or granulated, casein for industrial purposes, flax crumpled or battered, but not subjected to spinning.

Changes were also made to the rules for issuing AIGs in the "Order No. 1424 dated December 26, 2019", which analogically expanded the list of goods for which it is necessary to issue an AIG under the pilot project until February 10, 2023. The list includes the wheat and other meslin, non-seed, seed soft wheat and meslin, other hard wheat, peas, seed rye, grits and wheat flour, other cereals, sunflower seeds, seeds of fodder plants for sowing, other residues from sieving, grinding, etc. methods of processing grains of other cereals, non-granulated or granulated, casein for industrial purposes, flax crumpled or battered, but not subjected to spinning.

After February 10, 2023, issuing accompanying notes for goods will begin outside the framework of the pilot projectfor these names of goods.