 Out of a total of 32 EC145s delivered to the "Sécurité Civile", three had been lost in accidents by June 2009.In October 2010, an agreement to establish a joint venture between Eurocopter and Kazakhstan Engineering, "Eurocopter Kazakhstan Engineering", was formally signed; the joint venture created the only EC145 manufacturer in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), which possesses exclusive rights to supply the type to Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, and Azerbaijan.In November 2011, Kazakhstan took delivery of the first of an initial batch of six EC145 ordered.