Special attention has been awarded to a national procurement regime. The new bill on public procurement was criticized by majilismen during the presentation of the document by the Ministry of Finance. This is reported by the correspondent of   Kapital.kz business portal from Astana. So the majilismen consider the introduction of preferences from 1 January 2014 for suppliers from the Customs Union member states as untimely.

A deputy, Svetlana Romanovaskaya doubted in the competitiveness of Kazakhstan manufacturers under a single national regime with Russia and Belarus.

“How many competitive business do we have compared to the number of competitive companies in Belarus and Russia? Precious few. Among one thousand of our companies 50 of them can be competitive. Others are very small, local, work only in the region “, Svetlana Romanov said.

In her opinion, the entrepreneurs in Kazakhstan do not expand its capacity due to lack of working capital and financing problems.

“That is capacity is underdeveloped. This is due to the fact that we have credit in Kazakhstan through “Damu” it is ” so (in quotes) lending.” A small number of persons can receives these funds. That is practically normal access to credit, which could do our business competitive only is on paper only”, the deputy said.

In her opinion, the bill “On amendments to legislation on public procurement”, developed by the Ministry of Finance requires improvement.

We will improve it. We have not received any answers to at least one question (from the Vice – Minister of Finance of Kazakhstan, Berik Sholpankulov).

This means we need to formulate answers to these questions and put into law,” Svetlana Romanov said to reporters.

Source: Kapital.kz business portal