On 14 April 2020, Kazakhstan was found to have made meaningful progress overall in implementing the 2016 EITI Standard, with considerable improvements across several individual requirements.
Timeline of Validation and related materials
- 13 August 2019: Validation commenced
- November 2019: Stakeholder consultations
Secretariat assessment & comments
- 6 December 2019 - Draft Secretariat assessment
- 16 January 2020 - Comments from the MSG
- 21 January 2020 - Final Secretariat assessment
Validation Committee and Board review
- 7 April 2020 - VC Recommendation to the Board, Board Circular 288
- 14 April 2020 - Board decision 2020-26/BC-288
Background
This is a second Validation. On 13 February 2018, the EITI Board found that Kazakhstan had made meaningful progress in implementing the EITI Standard (see Board decision 2018-13/BM-39). The Board established that progress in addressing 10 corrective actions would be assessed in a second Validation. The corrective actions relate to:
- MSG governance (Requirement 1.4)
- License registers (Requirement 2.3)
- State participation (Requirement 2.6)
- Production data (Requirement 3.2)
- Barters and infrastructure arrangements (Requirement 4.3)
- Transport revenues (Requirement 4.4)
- Data reliability (Requirement 4.9)
- Social expenditures (Requirement 6.1)
- Quasi-fiscal expenditures (Requirement 6.2)
- Outcomes and impact (Requirement 7.4).
