A wide range of issues aimed at improving the legal framework and business climate in the union was discussed.
Alexei Overchuk attends a meeting of the Eurasian Economic Commission Council
Alexei Overchuk attends a meeting of the Eurasian Economic Commission Council
Alexei Overchuk attends a meeting of the Eurasian Economic Commission Council
Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk attended the meeting of the Eurasian Economic Commission Council. The event was chaired by Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia Mher Grigoryan via videoconference. On Cosmonautics Day, the Republic of Belarus was congratulated on the successful completion of the space mission where a female cosmonaut, Marina Vasilevskaya, took part for the first time in the history of Belarus.
The meeting participants discussed a wide range of issues aimed at improving the legal framework and business climate in the union.
In order to develop the EAEU Customs Code, amendments were adopted to the Regulations of the Eurasian Economic Commission. The amendments are aimed at giving the commission board the authority to determine:
— list and categories of e-commerce products;
— procedure for identifying these products;
— single rate of customs duty on e-commerce goods purchased by individuals;
— cost, weight and/or quantitative standards for import into the customs territory of the union.
The EEC Council also approved the draft decision of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council regarding the signing of a Protocol, on behalf of the EAEU, on online exchange of information between the EAEU and its member states, on the one hand, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, on the other hand, within the electronic system of certification and verification of the origin of goods.
The meeting participants approved the commission’s report in the digitalisation process of rail freight transportation in the interests of developing trade and economic cooperation between the union and its member states, on the one hand, and the People’s Republic of China, on the other.
A decision initiated by the Russian side was made to expand the list of light industry goods subject to marking with identification means starting from 1 April 2024. This list, in particular, includes faux fur clothing, knitwear, tracksuits, professional clothing, and a number of other light industrial products.
The procedure of pharmaceutical inspections for compliance with the requirements of the Good Pharmacovigilance Practice Rules of the Union has been approved. The approval of these rules will make it possible, in particular, to establish uniform approaches to identifying, assessing, and recording inconsistencies in the pharmacovigilance system of the holder of a certificate for a medicinal product that may pose a danger to public health, and identifying critical and significant shortcomings of the pharmacovigilance system.
Amendments have been made to the rules for bioequivalence studies of medicinal products within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union. These amendments improve the reference drug selection algorithm for conducting bioequivalence studies in order to reduce the costs associated with medicine development.
Amendments have been made to the Unified List of Products for which mandatory requirements within the Customs Union are established. Sports equipment and gear have been added to this list, including goalposts for football, mini-football, handball, ice hockey; targets for skeet shooting and sporting, gymnastic equipment (uneven bars, crossbars, trampolines, rings, wall bars, ropes, mats gymnastics, acrobatic tracks, and others).
The commission’s report was approved on the results of the annual monitoring of implementing measures to increase the supply of strategically important medicines and pharmaceutical substances for medical use, whose production should be secured in the Eurasian Economic Union.
The commission’s report on the 2023 plan of measures for the implementation of the Strategic Directions for the Development of Eurasian Economic Integration until 2025 and the report on the implementation of the EAEU Major International Activities for 2023 were also approved. Both reports will be presented to the heads of state at the next meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council.
At the meeting of the EEC Council, the participants approved a draft agenda for the upcoming meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council.
