The meeting participants considered a package of issues related to the expansion of the EAEU’s legal framework and the strengthening of the union’s stability.
On 30 March, Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk chaired a meeting of the Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission.
The meeting participants considered a package of issues on the council’s agenda that are related to the expansion of the EAEU’s legal framework and the strengthening of the union’s stability.
They approved the commission’s report on monitoring the EAEU member states’ compliance with the Rules for the Regulation of Trade in Services, Incorporation, and Activities in 2021-2022.
The council decided to amend the rues for the registration of medical products to allow for the use of national rules for the registration of medical products during emergencies, epidemics, or when there is a risk of shortage of medical products in the market of the given member state.
The meeting participants approved information about the results of the audit of the financial and economic operation of the EAEU Court and the Eurasian Economic Commission, and the results of the external audit (review) inthe EAEU bodies in 2022.
They decided to adopt a tariff privilege in the form of the exemption of the import customs duty on the specified volumes of raw cane sugar until 31 December 2023. The volumes have been approved at 100,000 tonnes each for Russia and Belarus, 50,000 tonnes for Kyrgyzstan and 350,000 tonnes for Kazakhstan.
They approved a decision to establish a special customs procedure for the import of products needed to organise and hold the 2nd CIS Games in Belarus in 2023.
The participants approved the Agreement on the Mutual Recognition of Bank Guarantees for State (Municipal) Procurement Contracts. The agreement has been forwarded to the member states for implementing the procedures needed to sign it.
The meeting participants also approved the draft Protocol on Amending the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union, signed on 29 May 2014, to provide financial assistance to the implementation of joint industrial cooperation projects by the member states. The draft has been forwarded to the member states for implementing the procedures needed to sign it. The protocol is scheduled to be signed at a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council in May 2023, so that financial support will be provided to cooperation projects from the EAEU budget as early as 2024.
At the initiative of the Russian Federation, the meeting participants decided to extend the increase of the duty-free allowance (from 200 euros to 1,000 euros) for goods imported for personal use and delivered by international mail or by shipping couriers (express cargo), and the increase of the duty-free allowances (from 200 euros to 1,000 euros, and from 25 kilograms to 31 kilograms) for goods imported for personal use and delivered in accompanied or unaccompanied shipments by any means of transport other than by air, or carried on foot. These allowances have been extended until 1 October 2023.
