The agreement on cooperation of state members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in the field of development, production, operation, repair, upgrade, prolongation of useful lives and utilization of military products

of October 6, 2007

The state members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (further - the CSTO) which are hereinafter referred to as with the Parties

being guided by the Agreement on the basic principles of military and technical cooperation between the State Parties of the Agreement on collective security of May 15, 1992 signed on June 20, 2000 and also other international treaties signed within the CSTO between the Parties concerning defense, safety and military and technical cooperation

aiming to provide the necessary level of defense capability and homeland security of the Parties,

strengthening mutually beneficial military-economic cooperation in the conditions of the developed and again formed production and scientific and technical cooperation of the companies of defense industries,

considering need of the effective organization of all complex of actions for development, production, operation, repair, upgrade, prolongation of useful lives and utilization of military products of the Parties,

for the purpose of further enhancement of systems of arms and equipment of armed forces, other troops and military forming of the Parties perspective samples of arms and military equipment,

agreed as follows:

Article 1

For the purposes of this agreement the main terms having the following values are used:

"military-economic cooperation" - the area of the interstate relations connected with interaction of national defense industry complexes in case of development, production, upgrade, repair, ensuring operation and utilization of military products, and also diversification and conversion of the military production;

"participants of military-economic cooperation" state bodies, the companies, associations and the organizations of the Parties which according to the legislation of the Parties acquired the right to implementation of foreign trade activity concerning military products, and/or the military products which are developers and/or producers;

"military products" - arms, military equipment, documentation, works, services, results of intellectual activities, including exclusive rights on them (intellectual property) and information in the field of military-economic and military and technical cooperation, and also any other products carried by the legislation of the Parties to military products;

"authorized bodies" - state bodies of the Parties under which authority questions of state regulation of military and technical (military-economic) cooperation, according to their national legal system are;

"subjects of military and technical cooperation" - state bodies and/or the organizations which according to the legislation of the Parties are granted the right to implementation of foreign trade activity concerning military products;

"results of intellectual activities" - the scientific, design, technical and technology solutions containing in technical and scientific and technical documentation, fixed on material carriers, and also containing in prototypes, prototypes of the products received during research, developmental and technological works;

"intellectual property" - is understood in the value specified in article 2 of the Convention establishing World Intellectual Property Organization, signed in Stockholm on July 14, 1967 with changes of October 2, 1979;

"information" - the data on objects, the facts, events, the phenomena and processes concerning subject of agreements (contracts) signed between the Parties during military-economic (military and technical) cooperation, their execution and/or the received results, irrespective of form of their representation.

Article 2

This agreement determines conditions of interaction of the Parties when implementing by them of development, productions, operation, repair, upgrade, prolongation of useful lives and utilization of military products, and also diversification and conversion of the military production.

This Agreement does not extend to supply of the materials, semifinished products, components and other material resources necessary for military production performed within bilateral intergovernmental agreements about production and scientific and technical cooperation of the companies of defense industries.

Article 3

Authorized bodies of the Parties on implementation of this agreement are:

from the Republic of Armenia - the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Armenia;

from the Republic of Belarus - the State military-industrial committee of the Republic of Belarus;

from the Republic of Kazakhstan - the Ministry of the industry and trade of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

from the Kyrgyz Republic - the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Fuel Resources of the Kyrgyz Republic;

from the Russian Federation - Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation;

from the Republic of Tajikistan - _____________________________________

from the Republic of Uzbekistan - the State company "Uzmakhsusimpeks".

In case of change of authorized bodies, the Parties through diplomatic channels without delay notify the Secretariat of the CSTO.

Article 4

Within this agreement of the Party cooperate in the following directions:

carrying out research and development works in the field of creation (development) of military new product samples;

production and operation of arms and military equipment;

upgrade and repair of arms and military equipment;

prolongation of useful lives of arms and military equipment;

utilization (liquidation) developed the resource of arms and military equipment;

diversification and conversion of the military production.

The cooperation in the specified directions is performed by development and program implementation of military-economic (military and technical) cooperation (further - Programs).

Article 5

Preparation of offers on Programs, and also their development and the realization will be enabled by authorized bodies of the Parties and/or their subjects of military and technical cooperation in compliance, with the legislation of the Parties. The specified Programs shall include the list of the performed actions, procedure and sources of their financing, and also information on customers and contractors.

Programs can be developed with participation of both two, and several Parties.

At the same time the Parties can finance both the Program in general, and that its part which is equitable to their national interests.

For work, specified in Article 2 of this agreement, Programs join the list of actions for protection of the state secret (secrets) concerning specific military products with indication of terms of performance of works and submission of the reporting according to the Agreement on mutual ensuring safety of the classified information within the Collective Security Treaty Organization of June 18, 2004.

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