Agreement on Cooperation of the Member States of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in the field of development, production, operation, repair, modernization, extension of the service life and disposal of military products
The member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (hereinafter - the CSTO), hereinafter referred to as the Parties,
Guided by the Agreement on the Basic Principles of Military-Technical Cooperation between the States Parties to the Collective Security Treaty of May 15, 1992, signed on June 20, 2000, as well as other international treaties concluded in the framework of the CSTO between the Parties on matters of defense, security, military-economic and military-technical cooperation,
strengthening mutually beneficial military-economic cooperation in the conditions of the established and newly formed industrial and scientific-technical cooperation of enterprises of the defense industries,
Considering the need for effective organization of the whole complex of measures for the development, production, operation, repair, modernization, extension of the service life and utilization of military products of the Parties,
in order to further improve weapons systems and equipment of the armed forces, other troops and military formations of the Parties with promising models of weapons and military equipment,
agreed as follows:
Article 1
For the purposes of this Agreement, basic terms are used with the following meanings:
"military-economic cooperation" is an area of interstate relations connected with the interaction of national defense-industrial complexes in the development, production, modernization, repair, maintenance and operation of military products;
"participants of military-economic cooperation" - state bodies, enterprises, associations and organizations of the Parties;
"military products" (hereinafter referred to as military equipment) - armament, military equipment, documentation, works, services, results of intellectual activity, including exclusive rights to them (intellectual property) and information in the field of military-economic and military-technical cooperation, as well as any other products attributable to the legislation of the Parties
"authorized bodies" - state bodies and organizations of the Parties, which are in charge of the issues of state regulation of military-technical and / or military-economic cooperation in accordance with their national legislation;
"results of intellectual activity" - scientific, design, technical and technological solutions contained in technical and scientific and technical documentation, recorded on tangible media, as well as contained in prototypes, product mock-ups, obtained during research and development and technological works;
"intellectual property" - has the meaning specified in Article 2 of the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization, signed in grams. Stockholm on July 14, 1967, as amended on October 2, 1979;
"information" - information about objects, facts, events, events and processes relating to the subject of contracts (contracts) concluded between the Parties during military-economic and / or military-technical cooperation, their execution and / or the results obtained, regardless of the form their presentation.
Article 2
This Agreement defines the directions, procedure and conditions for the interaction of the Parties in the development, production, operation, repair, modernization, extension of the service life and recycling of defense products.
This Agreement does not apply to the supply of materials, semi-finished products, components and other material resources necessary for the production of defense products, carried out in the framework of bilateral intergovernmental agreements on production and scientific and technical cooperation of enterprises of the defense industries of the Parties.
Article 3
The authorized bodies of the Parties for the implementation of this Agreement are:
from the Republic of Armenia - the Ministry of Defense 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 Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
from the Kyrgyz Republic - the Ministry of Economic Regulation of the Kyrgyz Republic;
from the Russian Federation - the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation;
from the Republic of Tajikistan - the Ministry of Energy and Industry of the Republic of Tajikistan;
from the Republic of Uzbekistan - the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
In the event of a change in the authorized body, each Party shall notify the CSTO Secretary General through diplomatic channels, who shall notify the other Parties in the prescribed manner.
Article 4
Under this Agreement, the Parties shall cooperate in the following areas:
development, testing and production of weapons products;
the operation of weapons and military equipment;
training specialists in the operation and repair of weapons and military equipment;
repair and modernization of weapons and military equipment;
extension of the service life of weapons and military equipment;
utilization (liquidation) of weapons and military equipment that have developed their service life (resource).
Cooperation in these areas is carried out on the basis of the programs of the military-technical and military-economic cooperation of the Parties.
Article 5
The order of work in the field of the development (creation) of military documents is determined by separate agreements concluded between the Parties concerned.
Article 6
The supply of defense products under this Agreement is carried out under contracts (contracts) on the basis of the approved bilateral lists.
The lists listed in the first paragraph of this article containing lists of customers and suppliers of military equipment from among the participants of military-economic cooperation, as well as the nomenclature and volumes of the supplied military equipment, are approved by the authorized bodies of the Parties.
Mechanisms for the formation of lists and the implementation of the supply of military products are determined by agreement (or by agreement) between the authorized bodies of the Parties.
The MPP is moved from the customs territory of one Party to the customs territory of the other Party in accordance with the national legislation of each of the Parties according to extracts from the approved lists of supplied MPP issued by the authorized bodies of the Parties, and is exempt from customs duties and fees.
Article 7
The parties are not entitled to transfer (sell) to third states, international organizations, and also natural and legal persons of drug products obtained under this Agreement without the prior written consent of the Party supplying such products.
The supplying Party has the right to exercise control over the target use of the defense weapon supplied in the framework of this Agreement in the same manner as defined by the Protocol on the exercise of control over the targeted use of military products supplied in the framework of the Agreement on the Basic Principles of Military-Technical Cooperation between the States Parties Collective Security Treaty of May 15, 1992, signed on June 20, 2000.
Article 8
The Parties, in accordance with their national legislation, exchange information on specific issues of cooperation relating to the implementation of this Agreement.
Information obtained in the course of cooperation under this Agreement may not be used to the detriment of the interests of either Party.
Protection and transfer of information constituting secret information is carried out in accordance with the Agreement on Mutual Ensuring the Safety of Secret Information within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization of June 18, 2004 and international treaties concluded between the Parties.
Article 9
The Parties acknowledge that the military products may contain the results of intellectual activity, the rights to which belong to the Parties and / or participants of military-economic cooperation.
The Party that received the said military products is liable in the event of its unauthorized use and / or access of legal entities and individuals unauthorized by the Parties to the results of intellectual activity, including intellectual property, the rights to which belong to the Party (Parties) and / or participants of the military economic cooperation, and provides within the framework of the Agreement on the Mutual Protection of Rights to the Results of Intellectual Activity Received and Used in the Course of the Military-Economic Cooperation within the framework of the Collective Security Treaty on 6 October 2007 appropriate measures for their legal protection, protection and prevention of misuse.
Article 10
By agreement of the Parties, amendments and additions may be made to this Agreement, which are an integral part thereof, which are drawn up by the relevant protocol and enter into force in the manner provided for in Article 12 of this Agreement.
Article 11
Disputes and controversies regarding the interpretation and application of this Agreement shall be resolved through consultations and negotiations between the Parties concerned.
All disputable issues related to the supply of defense products carried out for the implementation of this Agreement, which may arise between the Parties, are resolved under the conditions provided for in the contracts (contracts) concluded by them.
Article 12
This Agreement shall enter into force on the date of deposit with the depositary of the fourth notification of the implementation by the signatories of the Parties of the internal procedures necessary for its entry into force.
For the Parties that have completed the necessary domestic procedures later, this Agreement enters into force from the date of the delivery of the relevant documents to the depositary.
Article 13
This Agreement is valid for the duration of the Collective Security Treaty of May 15, 1992, unless the Parties agree otherwise.
Each Party may withdraw from this Agreement by sending a written notice to the depositary no later than six months before the date of withdrawal, settling the financial and other obligations that have arisen during the term of this Agreement.
Done in the city of Moscow on December 10, 2010 in one authentic copy in Russian. The original copy is kept in the Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, which will send each Party that has signed this Agreement its certified copy.