At the meeting of the Senate, deputies of the upper House appointed Anastasia Shchegortsova to the position of a member of the Central Election Commission.
The proposal of the Chairman of the Senate of the Parliament on appointment to the position of the CEC member was submitted to the Senate in accordance with subparagraph 7) of paragraph 3 of article 58 of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The senators unanimously supported the proposal.
The Treaty between the Republic of Kazakhstan and Ukraine on extradition has been ratified.
Deputy General Prosecutor Marat Akhmetzhanov informed that the Treaty made on October 29, 2018 in Nur-Sultan regulates the extradition of wanted persons between the two countries to bring them to criminal responsibility or to carry out the sentence of the court. The document provides the grounds for extradition, and the denial of it.
"Ratification of the Treaty will increase the effectiveness of cooperation between the two countries in the fight against crime. The main purpose of the Treaty is to cooperate in the extradition of wanted persons in their territories for criminal prosecution or enforcement of a court sentence for crimes entailing extradition," Senator Andrei Lukin said in his co-report.
Each party has the right to refuse to extradite its own nationals on the basis of its national legislation.
The competent authority under this Treaty is the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The Protocol on amendments to the Agreement on Customs Cooperation and Mutual Assistance dated April 15, 1994 was ratified.
The bill was presented by acting RK Minister of Finance Berik Sholpankulov.
Since the signing of the Agreement, more than 20 years have passed, so there was a need to improve the rules of this Agreement by making appropriate amendments to the Protocol, setting it out in a new edition.
The Protocol, signed on July 1, 2018, at the meeting of the Council of the Heads of State of the Commonwealth of Independent States in Dushanbe, was developed jointly with the CIS member States on the basis of the inventory of the CIS regulatory framework in the customs sphere.
The Protocol proposes to amend a number of key articles relating to the transmission of information, the form and content of the request, the execution of the request, the use of the information received.
One of the innovations is the exchange of requests, which will be carried out both between the central customs authorities of the States of the Parties and directly between the territorial customs authorities of the States of the Parties. This will facilitate effective cooperation to identify information or circumstances that indicate a violation of the requirements of customs legislation.
During the discussion, the Chairman of the Senate drew the attention of the responsible state bodies to the need to develop a joint plan for the modernization of checkpoints on the state border.
