APDC STRENGTHENS COOPERATION WITH WTO

           Employees of the agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the protection and development of competition (agency) held a working meeting with representatives of the World Trade Organization (WTO). 

            From September 13 to September 15 this year, as part of the preparation of the draft report on the review of Kazakhstan's trade policy, a number of meetings with representatives of the WTO Secretariat are planned to be held with state bodies of Kazakhstan since Kazakhstan joined the WTO to discuss sectoral issues in key areas, including competition policy.

         

It should be noted that the WTO mission was headed by Ricardo Barba, a consultant in the trade policy review department, as well as Rosen Marinov, a trade policy analyst in the trade policy review department.

              During the meeting, representatives of the WTO Secretariat reported on the main reforms of the competition legislation of Kazakhstan since 2015 (the year of Kazakhstan's accession to the WTO), as well as the prospects for its development, head of the agency's office for international cooperation Baimakanova A. T. and deputy director of the Department for legal regulation of competition Pasechko R. E. He also noted that during the modernization of the competition legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 5 antitrust packages were adopted, not counting individual point changes.

              Following the results of the bilateral meeting, an agreement was reached to continue cooperation of the WTO with the antimonopoly authority of Kazakhstan within the framework of the review of Kazakhstan's trade policy.