MOSCOW, 5 July (BelTA) – A session of the Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission will take place on 7 July. Deputy prime ministers of the Eurasian Economic Union member states will take part in it, the commission's press service told BelTA.
The Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission is expected to approve a draft agreement on an advisory council on the exchange rate policy of the Eurasian Economic Union member states. The Council of the Eurasian Economic Union is also expected to pass a recommendation for the Eurasian Economic Union member states to abide by the concept for creating a Eurasian jewelry export bureau and accommodating the bureau in the Astana International Financial Center (AIFC). The Council will also make a decision on launching the project “Digital technical regulation within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union”.
The deputy prime ministers will discuss the use of digital technologies for enabling the freedom of movement of EAEU citizens for the sake of preventing the spread of a new coronavirus infection. They will discuss how to improve the procedure for evaluating the digital markets that operate in the territory of the Eurasian Economic Union member states. The delineation of authority between antimonopoly bodies of the union member states and the Eurasian Economic Commission will be discussed. There are plans to discuss Russia's proposal on defining peculiarities of customs regulations with regard to products of offshore operations, which are extracted (made) outside the Eurasian Economic Union's customs territory (in the exclusive economic zone of a member state and the open sea) and are imported into the Eurasian Economic Union's customs territory.
The agenda also includes matters concerning progress in removing barriers on the home market of the Eurasian Economic Union, the list of exemptions and provisos on the EAEU home market, which are supposed to be removed in 2021-2022, the invigoration of cooperation in the area of aircraft construction, and a draft EAEU agreement on using navigation seals for tracking freight shipments.
The Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission is expected to amend the EAEU good manufacturing practice rules, the technical regulation on food safety, the methods used for calculating and collecting fines for violating common competition rules on transboundary markets, and the rules for determining the country of origin for certain kinds of commodities for the sake of government (municipal) purchases.
Apart from that, the Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission will consider a draft order of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council on transferring and distributing sums of import customs duties between the state budgets of the EAEU member states in 2020 and a draft order on an action plan on forming the common market of organic agricultural products within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union. These documents will be forwarded for consideration of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council later on.
