Senate ratified a number of international instruments
The Senate ratified the Agreement on Cooperation between the CIS Member States in the fight against information technology crimes, Senate’s press service reports.
The bill was introduced by Minister of Internal Affairs Yerlan Turgumbayev. The document broadens and strengthens the international framework for combating crimes in the field of information technology, bringing together the national laws of the participating states in this area.
Ratification of the Agreement will allow to intensify the interaction of the CIS member states, to increase the effectiveness of the joint interdepartmental preventive, operational-search measures and special operations for the identification, suppression and disclosure of crimes committed using information technology.
Senators ratified the Protocol amending the Agreement between the Governments of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan on checkpoints across the state border.
Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development, Beibut Atamkulov, explained that the Protocol amends the status of the Sartobe and Aukhatty checkpoints from two-sided to multilateral international, as well as the name of Kazakhstan’s Novovoskresenovka checkpoint to Sypatai Batyr.
Ratification of the Protocol will allow to unload the Karasu and Kordai checkpoints, as well as create favorable conditions for improving cross-border cooperation in developing trade and economic relations with Kyrgyzstan.
Senator M. Zholdasbayev asked how the issue will be solved with an increase in the number of staff units. Deputy Chairman of the National Security Committee, Director of the Border Service, Darkhan Dilmanov, informed that additional passport control booths for entry and exit will be installed, which will ensure compliance with the access control.
The Upper Chamber also ratified the Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers to the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters.
The bill was introduced by Minister of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources Magzum Mirzagaliyev.
The Protocol is part of the Aarhus Convention and adopted at an extraordinary meeting of the parties to the Aarhus Convention on May 21, 2003.
The document is the first legally binding international instrument on pollutant release and transfer registers. Its adoption will increase public access to information, as well as public participation in measures to prevent and reduce environmental pollution.
Accession to the Protocol will be a logical continuation of strengthening the cooperation of Kazakhstan with other countries - members of the United Nations within the framework of the implementation of the Aarhus Convention.
