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14 Sep 2022 EEC presented review of system to control prices for medicines in EAEU States At the EEC Board’s meeting held on September 13, the Eurasian Economic Commission’s Competition Unit presented a review of national systems to control prices for medicines in the EAEU States. The document’s objective is to inform countries on the practice of applying pricing mechanisms, price regulation in the Union States to improve the availability of medicines for the population and maintain fair competition. The review compares some mechanisms applied in the countries and used in forming controlled prices for original pharmaceuticals and generic products. The EAEU States apply similar price determination methods. When determining prices, external reference pricing methods are applied. However, there are differences both in the list of reference countries and pricing methods. The list and number of reference countries, as well as the methodology for calculating controlled prices differ. Nowadays, the EAEU States’ markets of pharmaceuticals have price distortions, whereby the cost of medicines in some Union countries differs significantly from their cost in other EAEU States, which is related, inter alia, to approaches to price formation. According to Arman Shakkaliev, EEC Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation, differences in the price control methods can spur development of certain imbalances in the markets, including price ones.
07 Sep 2022 In H1 of 2022 EEC issued nine warnings to prevent violations of competition rules The Commission's efficient use of "soft regulation" tools was described by Arman Shakkaliev, Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation of the EEC, in his speech during the international conference in Minsk dedicated to the 30th anniversary of antitrust regulation in the Republic of Belarus. The Minister noted that antitrust regulation was more and more getting into the mediative mode of operation to prevent possible violations of general competition rules. 
07 Sep 2022 The EEC website now has a digital module for identifying violations of competition rules The new tool preventing violations of competition rules was presented by Arman Shakkaliev, Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation of the EEC, during the 53rd meeting of the Interstate Council for Antimonopoly Policy held in Minsk on September 7. The module allows anyone to test their knowledge in the field of antitrust regulation, to assess the behavior of economic entities for signs of violations of general competition rules and to calculate potential risks.
06 Sep 2022 Price stability and proactive competition were the central topic at the meeting of the heads of antitrust agencies Improving the effectiveness of antitrust regulation, changes in competition law and their consequences were discussed in Minsk in the 5+1 format by the heads of antitrust agencies of the Eurasian Economic Union countries and Arman Shakkaliev, Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation of the Eurasian Economic Commission. The meeting was held at the venue of the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange. As is already a tradition, the meeting was attended by representatives of the antitrust agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan, an EAEU observer state. The participants considered the latest changes in the antitrust law of the Union countries aimed at business development including demonopolization and deregulation of competitive economy sectors, improving state procurement legislation and digitalization of antitrust regulation.
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09/23/2022 12:00:00 am Решение Совета ЕЭК № 151 О внесении изменения в Решение Совета Евразийской экономической комиссии от 20 декабря 2017 г. № 107
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09/28/2022 12:00:00 am Решение Коллегии ЕЭК №135 Об установлении ставок ввозных таможенных пошлин Единого таможенного тарифа Евразийского экономического союза в отношении отдельных видов товаров, ввозимых на таможенную территорию Евразийского экономического союза в целях обеспечения устойчивости экономик государств – членов Евразийского экономического союза
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09/28/2022 12:00:00 am Решение Коллегии ЕЭК №134 О классификации удобрений в соответствии с единой Товарной номенклатурой внешнеэкономической деятельности Евразийского экономического союза
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09/28/2022 12:00:00 am Решение Коллегии ЕЭК №133 О порядке введения в действие изменений в технический регламент Таможенного союза «О безопасности парфюмерно-косметической продукции» (ТР ТС 009/2011)
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09/28/2022 12:00:00 am Решение Коллегии ЕЭК №132 О классификации сети для защиты от града в соответствии с единой Товарной номенклатурой внешнеэкономической деятельности Евразийского экономического союза

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24 2021 EAEU to master new methods for regulating digital markets - EEC Minister The Eurasian Economic Commission constantly improves working conditions of the EAEU business, and sophisticating the antitrust regulation mechanisms is one of the directions thereto. As the EEC has suggested during the Antitrust Forum held on February 18, the Eurasian Union needs new approaches to antitrust compliance since the existing norms have not been brought to unified standards. The issue also concerns digital markets, the development of which has been intensified in response to the pandemic and restrictions accompanying it. Arman Shakkaliev, Member of the Board – Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation of the Commission, has told in his interview to "Eurasia.Expert” about measures the EEC now uses to protect competition as well as changes it prepares.
24 2021 "It is up to the business community to define the EEC agenda, and we should hear the business community" Published in the "Competition and Law" Magazine No. 1, 2021 The Eurasian Economic Commission’s Antitrust Unit was one of the main news-makers in the field of competition protection last year. The regulator's plans are large-scale as well: to control anticompetitive digital practices, to elaborate specialized guidelines, to expand the EEC's powers to companies from third countries and to introduce a compliance system at the supranational level as well as interactive format for interaction with business. What are the main outcomes of the Unit’s work in 2020? And what are the objectives set for 2021? Arman Abaevich Shakkaliev, Member of the Board – EEC Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation, reports. About "digital" antitrust regulation.
03 2021 Interview with Arman Shakkaliev, EEC Minister in charge of Competition Highlights - International roaming will be canceled within the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) by 2025. Russian citizens will be able to use home tariff plan in Kazakhstan, Armenia and other Union countries.
14 2016 The interview of the Minister on the technical regulation of the EEC Valery Koreshkov with BELTA news agency on establishment of the common market of medicines in the Eurasian Economic Union Medicines is the first group of specific goods, with which the EAEU countries started to work closely by the beginning of the functioning of the common market. Using this experience, the EAEU will form other common markets - for finances, energy, oil and gas, and so on. The BELTA journalist discussed with the EEC Board Member - Minister in charge of technical regulation Valery Koreshkov, what stages are yet to be covered and how the common market of medicines will work.​
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