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The Law regulates relations in the field of producing of beekeeping products, protection, use and reproducing of bees, effective appliance of them for fertilization of agricultural crops and all fertilized flora, creation of conditions for increasing of productiveness of the beekeeping as well as plant production, provision of warrants of observance of rights and interests of individuals and legal entities engaged in beekeeping.
Chapter 1. General provisions Article 1. Basic definitions used in the Law
The following basic definitions are used in the Law:
1) queen bee – a female member of a bee colony with a developed reproductive system, performing a reproductive function;
1-1) Instrumental insemination station – a specialized facility, where queen bees are artificially inseminated with the use of specialized equipment;
1-2) breeding queen bee – a purebred queen bee from a highly productive colony, characterized by breeding value, which it consistently passes on to its offspring;
2) excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 27.11.2015 № 424-V (shall be enforced upon the expiration of six months after the day of its first official publication);3) breeding bee colony – an integral, highly productive biological unit, consisting of the breeding queen bee, as well as bees, drones and brood during the active period, obtained from the breeding queen bee;
3-1) drone – a male member of a bee colony, performing the reproductive function;
3-2) honey – a natural product, obtained as a result of the foraging and physiological properties of bees, produced from plant nectar or secretions of living plant parts, or secretions of insects, parasitizing on living plant parts, which bees collect, transform, mix with special substances they produce, put in honeycomb cells, dehydrate, accumulate and leave in the honeycombs to mature;
3-3) a honeycomb package of bees – a bee colony with honeycombs and brood, collected in a box for transportation;
3-4) a honeycomb-free package of bees – bees with a queen bee and food in a box without combs, intended for transportation;
4) a hive – a structure for keeping one or more bee colonies;
5) facilities of the bees protections – immunobiological, biological, vegetative, chemical, chemical and pharmaceutical and the other veterinary preparations used in the beekeeping;
6) a bee breed - is a group of bee colonies of common origin, formed in certain natural and climatic conditions, possessing a set of characteristics that are stably transmitted by inheritance, supported by selection, the selection of morphological, physiological and economically useful properties as a result of selection and breeding work;
7) honeycomb foundation – a wax sheet with embossed bottoms of bee or drone cells;
8) pests of the bee communities – particular types of animals, birds and insects that kill bees for feed purposes or inflicting harm by stealing and (or) damaging of honey;
9) a transportation (movement) of the bee communities – removal of the bee communities on the honeyflow and fertilization of entomophilous plants;
10) bee colony – a community consisting of a queen bee, bees, drones, a nest with brood during the active period and foddering;
11) beekeeping – a branch of agricultural industry, the functioning base of which is the breeding and use of bees for fertilization of entomophilous plants and increasing of their yield, getting of beekeeping products;
12) beekeeping products – products, obtained due to the collecting and physiological properties of bee colonies;
13) an authorized state body in the field of beekeeping – a central executive body which carries out the administration in the field of beekeeping;
14) an out-apiary – an apiary which is allocated by movement at sources of honeyflow or massifs of entomophilous plants;
14) an apiary – beehives with the bee communities and necessary property for beekeeping allocated in the special place;
14-1) isolated breeding site – a specially selected area, intended for the preservation, improvement and reproduction of regionalized bee breeds and local (native) bee populations;
15) apiary – hives with bee colonies placed in a specific location;
15-1) apiary veterinary passport – a document of the established form, indicating the owner of the apiary, the number of bee colonies, the timing and nature of veterinary treatments performed;
16) a stationary apiary – an apiary allocated in the permanent place during a year;
17) entomophilous plants – plants fertilized by insects.
Footnote. Article 1 is in the wording of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 15.07.2011 № 461-IV (shall be enforced from 30.01.2012); as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 27.11.2015 № 424-V (shall be enforced upon the expiration of six months after the date of its first official publication); dated 19.06.2026 № 319-VIII (effective sixty calendar days after the date of its first official publication).Article 2. Legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the beekeeping
1. The legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the beekeeping is based on the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan and consists of this Law and the other regulatory legal acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
2. If international treaty, ratified by the Republic of Kazakhstan, establishes other rules, than those contained in the Law, the rules of international treaty shall be applied.
Article 2-1. The purpose, objectives and principles of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on beekeeping
1. The purpose of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on beekeeping shall be to create conditions for the development of beekeeping, and also protection and conservation of bees.
2. The objectives of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on beekeeping shall be:
1) state regulation of beekeeping activities;
2) ensuring the quality and safety of bee products;
3) organizing and developing selection and breeding work, and also introduction of modern selection methods;
4) organizing the registration of individuals and legal entities, engaged in beekeeping;
5) training and retraining of specialists in beekeeping.
3. The principles of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on beekeeping shall be:
1) ensuring preservation of bee breeds;
2) creating conditions for increasing the beekeeping productivity;
3) equal access to beekeeping activities;
4) participation of individuals and legal entities in addressing beekeeping development issues;
5) scientific support for beekeeping.
Footnote: Chapter 1 has been supplemented with Article 2-1 pursuant to the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 19.06.2026 № 319-VIII (effective sixty calendar days after the date of its first official publication).Chapter 2. Activities in the field of beekeeping Article 3. Right on occupation by beekeeping
1. Individuals and legal entities shall have right on occupation by beekeeping.
2. For occupation by beekeeping the receiving of any permission of the state body shall not be required.
Article 4. The procedure of granting land lots for placement of apiaries
1. Land lot for placement of apiaries shall be provided for individuals and legal entities according to the procedure and terms provided by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
2. Placement of apiaries on land of the forest fund shall be carried out without inflicting harm for forest environment according to the procedure and terms provided by the forest legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
3. Placement of apiaries on land of the natural areas of special protection shall be carried out in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the specially protected natural areas.
Article 5. Formation and land use of apiaries
1. Individual and legal entity in order to be occupied by beekeeping shall form apiary of bee communities which has a utility room, equipment and shall be allocated on the land lot being in its use. Individual or legal entity engaged in beekeeping may use other land lots on agreement with owners of land lots and land-users in accordance with the land legislation.
2. Quantity of bee communities which may be maintained by the individuals and legal entities is not limited.
3. On apiaries the bees are to be occurred only of regionalized in one or another location breeds according to plan of their breed regionalization in the Republic of Kazakhstan established by the authorized body in the field of livestock breeding.
Article 6. Placement of apiaries
1. Individuals and legal entities shall allocate apiaries in places where the safety of people shall be provided. The procedure of regulation of safety placement of apiaries shall be determined by the district (urban) executive bodies.
2. Migratory apiaries must be located near honey flow sources at least one and a half kilometers apart and three kilometers from stationary apiaries.
Stationary and (or) migratory apiaries must not be located closer than five kilometers from stationary and (or) migratory apiaries that establish a honey making base in adjacent areas by sowing and (or) planting entomophilous plants.
Stationary and (or) migratory apiaries must not be located on the flight path of bees from another previously established apiary to honey flow sources.
Footnote. Article 6 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 20 December, 2004 № 13 (shall be enforced from 1 January, 2005); dated 19.06.2026 № 319-VIII (effective sixty calendar days after the date of its first official publication).Article 7. Taxation of individuals and legal entities engaged in beekeeping
1. Taxation of individuals and legal entities engaged in beekeeping shall be carried out according to the tax legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
2. The introduction and collection of taxes and other payments not established by the tax legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan is prohibited.
Chapter 3. Protection of bees Article 8. Protection and reproducing of bees
Protection and reproducing of bees shall be carried out by owner by:
1) protection of habitat of bees, conditions of breeding, places of movements and ways of migration of bees;
2) veterinary and sanitary serving of apiaries;
3) provision of optimal quantity of bee communities in range of their resettlement;
4) scientifically-based and rational use of bees;
5) taking measures on prevention of ruin and intentional elimination of bee communities;
6) protection of bees upon appliance of facilities of plants protection, mineral fertilizers and other drugs;
7) supporting of activity aimed at preserving of bees.
Article 9. Protection of habitat, conditions of breeding, places of movements and ways of migration of bees
Individuals and legal entities that carry out the activity which may lead to reduction of number of bees, are obliged to ensure the measures on their protection, preserving of their habitat, inviolability of allotments and plants especially valuable for preserving and life sustenance of bees.
Article 10. Protections of bees upon appliance of protection facilities, mineral fertilizers and other drugs
1. Appliance of protection facilities, mineral fertilizers and the other preparations for processing of honey plants shall be carried out according to the procedure provided by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The list of protection facilities of plants, mineral fertilizers and other drugs applied for processing of honey plants shall be approved by the authorized state body in the field of beekeeping.
2. Individuals and legal entities that apply the protection facilities of plants, mineral fertilizers and other drugs for processing of honey plants shall in the five days before the beginning of work warn on it in written form the beekeepers that have apiaries within a radius of to seven kilometers from cultivated allotments, inform on applied drugs, its toxicological information and term of isolation.
Article 11. Protection of bees upon performance of forestry works
Felling of trees and bushes – sources of honeyflow as well as green product of osier tan is prohibited within a radius of up to three kilometers from places of allocation of stationary apiaries except the cases of improvement of level of sanitation of forests and condition of their reproduction.
Article 12. Protection of bees in conditions of their habitat
1. Activity on use of benefits of bees as well as receiving of products of beekeeping in conditions of their habitat shall be carried out in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on protection, reproduction and use of the animal world.
2. Ruin of nest and other places of settlement of bee communities in conditions of their habitat as well as selection of honey from nests of bee communities is prohibited.
3. In case if bee community complicates the life sustenance of human in conditions of its habitat, transportation or elimination upon impossibility of migration of such bee community shall be performed upon participation of specialists in the field of beekeeping.
Article 13. Transporting (moving) bee colonies. Transporting bees in a honeycomb package or a package without honeycombs
Footnote. The title of Article 13 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 19.06.2026 № 319-VIII (effective sixty calendar days after the date of its first official publication).
Transportation of bees in a honeycomb package or a honeycomb-free package shall be carried out in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Footnote. Article 13 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 19.06.2026 № 319-VIII (effective sixty calendar days after the date of its first official publication).Chapter 4. State regulation in the field of beekeeping Article 14. Competence of the authorized state body in the field of beekeeping
The authorized state body in the field of beekeeping shall carry out:
1) realization of the state policy in the field of beekeeping;
2) is excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 03.07.2013 № 124-V (shall be enforced upon expiry of ten calendar days after its first official publication);
3) (is excluded – dated 10 January, 2006 № 116 (the order of enforcement See Article 2 of the Law № 116);
4) elaboration and approval of regulatory legal acts in the field of beekeeping within provided powers;
5)-7) (are excluded – dated 10 January, 2006 № 116 (the order of enforcement See Article 2 of the Law № 116);
8) international cooperation in the field of beekeeping;
9) organization of scientific research aimed at the protection and reproduction of bees;
10) (is excluded);
11) other powers provided by this Law, other Laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan, acts of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan and of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Footnote. Article 14 as amended by the Laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 20.12.2004 № 13 (shall be enforced from 1 January, 2005); dated 05.07.2011 № 452-IV (shall be enforced from 13.10.2011); dated 03.07.2013 № 124-V (shall be enforced upon expiry of ten calendar days after its first official publication).Article 14-1. Jurisdiction of local executive bodies of the capital, oblasts, cities of national significance
A footnote. Title of Article 14-1 with the change introduced by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 28.12.2018 № 210-VI (shall be enforced upon the expiration of ten calendar days after the day of its first official publication); dated 19.06.2026 № 319-VIII (effective sixty calendar days after the date of its first official publication).
Local executive bodies of the capital, oblasts, and cities of national significance shall:
1) control for development and protection of beekeeping on the relevant territory of the administrative-territorial unit;
2) coordination of selective and breeder work and organization of the state supporting of breeder action in the beekeeping in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the livestock breeding;
3) coordination of activity on preparing and re-preparing of specialists in the field of beekeeping;
3-1) organize and (or) ensure scientific research in the protection, reproduction and use of bees in the relevant administrative-territorial unit;
4) the other powers imposed on the local executive bodies by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in interests of the local state administration.
Footnote. Chapter is supplemented by Article 14-1 in accordance with the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 10.01.2006 № 116 (in the order of enforcement See Article 2 of the Law № 116); as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 05.07.2011 № 452-IV (shall be enforced from 13.10.2011); dated 28.12.2018 № 210-VI (shall be enforced upon the expiration of ten calendar days after the day of its first official publication); dated 19.06.2026 № 319-VIII (effective sixty calendar days after the date of its first official publication).Article 15. Prevention of diseases of bees, their treatment, pest control of bee communities
1. Is excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 15.07.2011 № 461-IV (shall be enforced from 30.01.2012).
2. Prevention of diseases of bees, their treatment, pest control of bee communities as well as reproducing of empty honeycombs shall be performed in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on veterinary medicine.
3. Individuals and legal entities engaged in beekeeping are to be provided by the veterinary drugs in purposes of control of disease included in the list of specially dangerous diseases approved by the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
4. In order to keep record of apiaries and carry out treatment and preventive measures for each apiary the state veterinary organizations, created by local executive bodies of the capital, oblasts, cities of national significance shall issue a veterinary passport of the apiary in accordance with the procedure and form, specified by the authorized veterinary authority.
Footnote. Article 15 as amended by the Laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 20.12.2004 № 13 (shall be enforced from 01.01.2005); dated 15.07.2011 № 461-IV (shall be enforced from 30.01.2012), dated 29.09.2014 № 239-V (shall be enforced upon expiry of ten calendar days after the date of its first official publication); dated 19.06.2026 № 319-VIII (effective sixty calendar days after the date of its first official publication).Article 16. Veterinary and sanitary expertise in the field of beekeeping
Produced or prepared products of beekeeping shall be subject to selling after performance of veterinary and sanitary expertise according to the procedure provided by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on veterinary.
Article 17. Selection and breeding work in beekeeping
1. The activities of individuals and legal entities in the breeding and (or) sale of breeding products (material) in beekeeping shall be carried out in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on livestock breeding.
2. In order to preserve, improve and reproduce regionalized bee breeds and local (native) bee populations, individuals and legal entities may establish an isolated mating station and (or) an instrumental insemination station.
3. Individuals and legal entities operating an isolated mating station must simultaneously comply with the following requirements:
1) provide services for the controlled mating of unfertilized queen bees with drones of known origin of the same breed;
2) maintain paternal colonies of appropriate quality and have a sufficient number of drones available for the entire period of the isolated mating station operation;
3) issue a document on commencement of egg laying by the queen bee and information on the origin of the paternal colonies;
4) comply with other requirements, determined by the livestock breeding authority.
4. A protection zone with a radius of seven kilometers shall be established around the area, allocated for the isolated breeding station. It shall be prohibited to bring bee colonies with drones not involved in the breeding process into the protection zone.
Footnote: Article 17 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 19.06.2026 № 319-VIII (effective sixty calendar days after the date of its first official publication).Chapter 5. Responsibility for the breach of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on beekeeping Article 18. Compensation of harm inflicted in the result of the breach of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on beekeeping
The harm inflicted in the result of the breach of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on beekeeping shall be compensated according to the procedure provided by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Article 19. Responsibility for the breach of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on beekeeping
Persons that are guilty in the breach of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on beekeeping shall entail responsibility in accordance with the legislative acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
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