Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan on cooperation in the area of environment and rational nature use

The Parties shall cooperate: 1) to harmonize the ecological laws, interstate normative and legal regulations in the area of environmental protection and use of natural resources providing the mechanism for compensation of the damages and losses incurred by one Party to the other Party; 2) to develop and implement joint purpose-oriented programs and projects on environmental protection; 3) to improve economic mechanisms for the management of nature protection and use; 4) to set specially protected natural territories and maintain the biological diversity including those in the adjacent boundary zones; 5) to provide soils conservation and rational use of land resources; 6) to provide subsoil conservation and rational use of the mineral raw material resources; 7) in air protection against transboundary pollution; 8) in the coordinating of activities for the construction of new projects in the boundary zone and of the projects that can cause the transboundary adverse effect irrespective of their geographical location; 9) in protection, rational use and prevention against pollution of the transboundary water resources; 10) in the neutralization, safe destruction and burial of toxic and radioactive wastes, and in the process of making them harmless; 11) in joint ecological expert examinations of the projects that have or may have adverse transboundary effects; 12) to develop and implement environmental non-contaminating and resource-saving technologies, with securing the mutual access in this area; 13) to develop production and introduce facilities for recovery and neutralization of domestic garbage and industrial wastes; 14) to manufacture facilities and devices for the environment pollution control; 15) to produce and apply facilities, equipment and structures for cleaning the effluents and contaminants, disposals to the environment; 16) to create an information network in the field of nature protection and use, and also a warning system as to the extraordinary situations on the boundary territories; 17) to perform joint research work and exchange of the research and technical development results.