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Since the republic joined the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), industrial production in Kyrgyzstan has been growing at a faster pace as compared to the Union as a whole. This was declared on December 2 in Bishkek by Alexander Subbotin, Member of the Board – Minister in charge of Industry and Agriculture of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), at a practical conference on the integration of the Kyrgyz Republic with the EAEU countries.

The development of trade and economic cooperation between the States of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the People’s Republic of China, and further steps to implement the Agreement on Trade and Economic Cooperation, which entered into force on October 25 this year, were discussed by Veronika Nikishina, Member of the Board - Minister in charge of Trade of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) and Zhang Hanhui, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the PRC to the Russian Federation during their meeting at the EEC’s headquarters.

“In case of the integration scenario, structural changes will occur in the manufacturing industry, that is, production volumes of the investment and consumer sectors will increase and segments of the petrochemical complex sectors will shrink,” - stated Alexander Subbotin, Member of the Board - Minister in charge of Industry and Agriculture of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) at the 6^th International Forum of the Financial University “Growth or Recession: What to Be Prepared for?”.

The joint work algorithms of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) and Indonesia, and the issues of connecting business circles to it, became the main topics during the working meeting of Sergei Glazyev, Member of the Board - Minister in charge of Integration and Macroeconomics of the EEC with Mohamad Wahid Supriyadi, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Indonesia to the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus.

The Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) has prepared draft Main Directions for Industrial Cooperation in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) for the period up to 2025 and the prospect up to 2035. The document was reviewed by the participants in the meeting of the EEC Advisory Committee for Industry.

“Standardization can be figuratively called the language of communication between producers and consumers, and international standardization can be called the universal language of world trade. This language should be used everywhere. Therefore, for the successful implementation of the UN strategy to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) until 2030, including in the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), it is important that SDG specialists join forces with colleagues in the field of standardization,” – stated Victor Nazarenko, Member of the Board - Minister in charge of Technical Regulation of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) at the 29^th session of the Working Party of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies (UNECE WP 6), which was held in Geneva (Switzerland).

Representatives of European businesses expressed their interest in deepening investment cooperation with the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). The EAEU, in turn, plans to open up new sectors in which to invest and to harmonize the rules to regulate the treatment of investors. The businessmen discussed the prospects for interaction between the European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union on November 22 at the 6^th Moscow International Financial and Economic Forum.

The need for establishing a full-fledged dialogue between the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the European Union (EU) was declared by the participants of the international conference on the operation of foreign companies in the market of the EAEU countries. The conference was held on November 21 in Bratislava (Slovakia).

On November 25, in Moscow, Tigran Sargsyan, Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission, invested Alexander Shokhin, President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, with the medal “For Contribution to the Development of the Eurasian Economic Union”.

On November 26, the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) considered issues in the fields of energy and transport, internal market functioning, digitalization of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) countries’ economies, technical regulation, common markets for medicines and medical devices, and a number of others.