Further evelopment of the union’s legislation, improvement of the instruments for regulating certain areas of integration cooperation, and other issues within the purview of the Сouncil were considered.
Alexei Overchuk attends Eurasian Economic Commission Council meeting
Acting Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk took part in the meeting of the Eurasian Economic Commission Council chaired by Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia Mher Grigoryan, via videoconference.
The meeting participants discussed further development of the union’s legislation, improvement of the instruments for regulating certain areas of integration cooperation, and other issues within the purview of the Council.
In particular, the Commission’s report on monitoring the implementation of measures to liberalise certain service sectors was endorsed.
The report included updates on the liberalisation process of mutual trade in service sectors such as travel agencies (services of tour operators and travel agents); weather forecasting and meteorology services; plane surveying and underground surveying services; property valuation services; general construction services; services related to the production and distribution of films and videos, as well as for the demonstration of video films.
The report will be presented during the next meeting of the Supreme Council.
A monitoring report assessing the regulatory impact of the Commission’s draft decisions in 2023 was approved for presentation at a meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council. The report includes statistical, reference and analytical information on the results of assessing the regulatory impact of the commission’s draft decisions. The report also provides information on the completion of work to amend the Commission’s regulations necessary to ensure the implementation of a mechanism for assessing the actual impact of the commission’s decisions.
The council decided to amend the rules to determine the country of origin for certain types of goods for state (municipal) procurement, aimed at improving the union’s rights in terms of compliance practices. The rules establish the procedure for determining the country of origin of certain types of goods on the territory of the Eurasian Economic Union member state in order to provide national treatment to suppliers of one member state participating in state (municipal) procurements of another member state.
The commission amended the rules to determine the country of origin for goods from developing and least developed countries. These rules are applied because, in accordance with Article 36 of the Treaty on the EAEU dated May 29, 2014, in order to promote the economic development of developing and least developed countries, the EAEU member states provide tariff preferences in relation to goods originating from and imported from these countries.
In particular, these amendments provide for fast-tracking the procedure for documenting the origin of goods, excluding the “direct purchase” requirement as a mandatory condition for granting preferences, and specifying the “direct supply” requirement. The updated rules simplify the requirements for supporting documents and transport environment based on established compliance practices.
The Council introduced amendments to the Customs Union Technical Regulation On Safety of Toys (TR CU 008/2011) to clarify certain requirements of the technical regulation based on the results of its application. In particular, amendments to the technical regulations clarify their scope, define terms necessary for the enforcement of the technical regulations (“flavoured toy,” “stuffed toy,” “rattle-box” and others), and add requirements for new types of toys (board games to develop odor sense, taste kits, etc.).
The Council decided to add “oral hygiene products for adults” to the Unified List of Products (Goods) Subject to State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance (Control) at the Customs Border and Customs Territory of the Eurasian Economic Union.
In order to implement measures to ensure food security of the Union, the Commission approved a one-year extension of the validity of the order of the Intergovernmental Council, providing for the preparation and annual approval (until 30 July) of indicative (forecast) balances for wheat and meslin, barley, corn, sunflower seeds, sugar, and sunflower oil.
The Union’s approaches to implementing the climate agenda were discussed at the meeting, and the Commission’s report on the current state of competitiveness on cross-border markets reviewed.
Discussion was held on unifying approaches within risk management systems when clearing goods at customs and determining customs value. The Russian side put forward an initiative to improve the law of the Union when determining the customs value of goods imported into the customs territory of the Union and to prevent the practice of understating customs value. Discussion of these issues will continue both at the level of the EEC Council and at the level of the prime ministers of the five member countries.
