Structure
The Executive direction has the legal form of a joint-stock company named “Executive direction of the Organizing Committee of the 7th Winter Asian Games 2011” founded the 13th of July 2008. In the text, we will refer to this joint-stock company as the Astana-Almaty Winter Asian Games Organizing Committee (or AWAGOC). The main goals of the joint-stock company, as defined in its legal founding document, are “the planning, organization and staging of the 7th Asian Winter Games, cooperating with the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), local executive bodies, NOC of Kazakhstan, national sports federations and Asian sports federations, providing the Asian Games with sports venues in compliance with the requirements of the International Sports Federations, as well as the development of tourism and the generation of income related to this activities, in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.”