Kazakhstan Validation 2019

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:

1. MSG governance (Requirement 1.4)     
2. License registers (Requirement 2.3)      
3. State participation (Requirement 2.6)   
4. Production data (Requirement 3.2)      
5. Barters and infrastructure arrangements (Requirement 4.3)      
6. Transport revenues (Requirement 4.4) 
7. Data reliability (Requirement 4.9)         
8. Social expenditures (Requirement 6.1) 
9. Quasi-fiscal expenditures (Requirement 6.2)     
10. Outcomes and impact (Requirement 7.4).