Work on identifying and eliminating obstacles
Since March 1, 2016, the Eurasian Economic Commission has had a structural subdivision with the task to ensure the internal market functioning without barriers, exceptions and restrictions – the Department for Internal Market Functioning.
As part of implementing these tasks, the Department conducts outreach efforts to identify and remove barriers, exceptions and restrictions to ensure free movement of goods, services, capital and labor within the Eurasian Economic Union.
At present, the Register of Barriers, Register of Restrictions, Register of Appeals and Register of Exceptions have been formed as part of the Union's common integrated information system, and the meanings of “exceptions” and “restrictions” as well as “barriers” have been defined with due regard to the specifics of the Eurasian economic integration.
Barriers are obstacles to the free movement of goods, services, capital and labor within the functioning internal market of the Union and their access to the markets of the Union Member States that result from inconsistency of the existing or adopted but not yet enacted statutory provisions of the Member States or of the law enforcement practice established in the Union Member States.
Exceptions are exceptions (derogations) stipulated by the Union's law in terms of non-applying the common rules of the internal Union market functioning by the Union Member State.
Restrictions are obstacles to the free movement of goods, services, capital and labor within the functioning internal market of the Union and their access to the Union Member States’ markets that results from the lack of legal regulation of economic relations, whose development is stipulated by the Union's law.
In order to improve the efficiency of interaction between the Commission and the business community and citizens of the Union, as well as to increase the openness and transparency of the exceptions and restrictions applied by the Member States of the Eurasian Economic Union, the barriers identified and the measures taken to eliminate them, a special information resource “Internal Market Functioning in the Territory of the Eurasian Economic Union” was created, aimed at a wide audience. Citizens and juridical persons of the Union can use this portal to learn in detail about the current status of work on identifying and eliminating barriers, reducing exceptions and restrictions to the maximum extent possible, to submit information on identified barriers, and to monitor their status. .
The resource is available at: https://barriers.eaeunion.org