OBS_VALUE: National treatment regime is accorded to foreign providers  only on the basis of  international agreements ratified by the Republic of Kazakhstan. Currently only members of the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union (Russian Federation, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Belarus) are eligible for such treatment.  Third country foreign suppliers may be discriminated by the Government in order to protect the domestic market and the development of the national economy and to support domestic producers and suppliers, for a fixed term of two years. The 2022 update of the list of exemptions from the national treatment regime includes foreign consumer goods industry and foreign furniture and machinery manufacturing. In these spheres, only local entities included into the register of domestic manufacturers could participate in the public procurement. See also, Ruling On some issues of establishing an exemption from the national treatment regime, № 49, adopted 02 February 2022, https://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P2200000049