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20 Oct 2025 EEC shared peculiarities of law enforcement practice on suppressing unfair competition with experts from EAEU countries Irina Ivantey, Deputy Director of the Eurasian Economic Commission's Antitrust Regulation Department, took part in the international conference "Unfair Competition and Misleading Advertising. Peculiarities of Law Enforcement Practice in the Eurasian Economic Union Member States." The discussion covered the legal basis for combating unfair competition, the relationship between antitrust and civil regulation, judicial and law enforcement practice, mechanisms for cross-border application of national law. Irina Ivantey shared that the largest share of the materials on violating the general rules of competition reviewed by the EEC is the issues of suppressing unfair competition. "This element of offense entails a preventive measure of issuing a warning on the need to eliminate signs of violation. The enforceability of such warnings is about 80%," told the EEC representative having mentioned that in the context of developing digital economy violations of the general rules of competition also shift to the digital environment. "A growing number of considered disputes between competitors relate to selling goods at e-platforms. Among claimants, representatives of small businesses are increasingly common as using marketplaces is a simpler and more convenient method of selling their goods in the EAEU territory," the EEC representative pointed out. Another trend observed in cases on unfair competition is a change in product markets. Previously, these were markets of major industrial goods; now they are often markets of specific consumer goods. The event was attended by experts of antitrust authorities of the Member States, EAEU Court and representatives of legal institutions.

20 Oct 2025 Olga Prudnikova: "The EAEU has extensive opportunities for developing renewable energy sources" This was reported by Olga Prudnikova, Director of the EEC Energy Department, at the session "SCO and ASEAN Countries on the Path towards Creating Fair Energy" during the Russian Energy Week international forum held in Moscow on October 15–17. Olga Prudnikova has highlighted that the Union pays great attention to developing nuclear energy: "Three EAEU Member States (the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation) have nuclear power plants in their energy mix. An NPP is also being built in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Nuclear energy accounts for about 20% of the total power generation in the Union. It is a clean energy source holding great promise." Development of renewable energy sources in the EAEU is envisaged for a long term and is a priority. In this regard, the RES development is reflected in the Eurasian Economic Path Declaration on Further Development of Integration Processes within the EAEU until 2030 and for the period until 2045. Also as part of the REW 2025, there was a working meeting between Olga Prudnikova and Mohammad Nazifi, head of the Iran Energy Exchange, that resulted in agreements on further contacts in promoting exchange trade in energy resources. The parties also discussed the matters of enhancing their long-term cooperation. The session "SCO and ASEAN Countries on the Path towards Creating Fair Energy" was also attended by Sergei Tsivilev, Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, Al-Mutasim Ibrahim, Minister of Energy and Petroleum of the Republic of Sudan, and others.

20 Oct 2025 Update of plan for developing EAEU technical regulations approved Amendments to the plan for developing technical regulations of the Eurasian Economic Union were discussed at a meeting of the specialized Advisory Committee chaired by Valentin Tataritsky, EEC Minister in charge of Technical Regulation. Among the adopted decisions are supplementing the plan with amendments to be developed to the EAEU technical regulation "On Safety of Products Intended for Children and Adolescents." The meeting approved amendments to lists of standards to three technical regulations: "On Safety of Equipment for Operations in Explosive Environments", "On Safety of Combustible Natural Gas Prepared for Transportation and (or) Use" and "Requirements for Liquefied Hydrocarbon Gases for Using Them as Fuel." Also endorsed were the additions to the program on developing interstate standards to the EAEU technical regulation "On Safety of Packaging" including development of five new interstate standards: one will be based on an international standard, other four on national standards of the Republic of Belarus. The members of the Advisory Committee approved amendments to the Common Veterinary Requirements regarding imports into the EAEU and movement between the Union countries of honeybees (bee queens and nucleus colonies). For such shipments, the amendments introduce the requirement to confirm that the exporting territory is free from tropilelapsosis (Tropilaelaps spp mites). The veterinary certificate form will also be updated.

20 Oct 2025 Vahagn Ghazaryan: "To promote labeling in the EAEU we should strictly comply with the Union's law and launch communication via the IIS" On October 17 in Astana, Vahagn Ghazaryan, Director of the Eurasian Economic Commission's Tariff and Non-tariff Customs Regulation Department, spoke at the international forum "Digital Labeling: Market Transparency as the Basis for Economic Growth" where he shared the outcomes of introducing labeling of goods within the Eurasian Economic Union over the seven years since the specialized agreement came into force, as well as outlined key risks for further development. "With the existing configuration of the labeling system, increasing the number of marked goods not only involves positive effects but also poses the threat of restricting the free movement of goods across the Union," Vahagn Ghazaryan noted. The EEC Department Director explained that at the moment there are two critical risk groups. The first one concerns the failure of some EAEU countries to comply with the Union law provisions in terms of meeting the deadlines for submitting notices on introducing labeling. The second one, given a large number of commodity groups subject to labeling or planned for labeling in the future, concerns the current bilateral arrangements for information exchange between the labeling system operators without using the integration segment. "Elimination of the outlined risks will help improve the labeling system for better combating circulation of illegal products," Vahagn Ghazaryan stressed. Also at the Forum, Ilya Kabanov, Head of the Section of Market Monitoring and labeling of Commodities, reported on the main effects achieved through introducing labeling in the EAEU States such as market regularization, decrease in counterfeit products, growing number of lawful manufacturers, increase in profitability of bona fide manufacturers and improved budget revenues.

20 Oct 2025 Vitaly Vovk told about capabilities of EAEU financial cooperation mechanism Vitaly Vovk, Deputy Director of the Eurasian Economic Commission's Industrial Policy Department, presented the financial cooperation mechanism at a meeting of the Committee on Investment and Economic Development of the CIS Business Center for Economic Development. The event was aimed at promoting dialogue between representatives of business, authorities and development institutions, exchange of experience and development of joint solutions to strengthen industrial cooperation. The event discussed key areas of developing industrial cooperation across the CIS and EAEU, the practice of using support tools for cooperation projects, investment attraction mechanisms and incentives for creating industrial infrastructure. "In the context of rebooting global technology markets and logistical redistribution in the real sector, it is necessary to ensure investment inflow and technology transfer and incentivize the creation of export-oriented production and technology zones with a special regulatory regime," Vitaly Vovk pointed out. "Another tool for qualitative development of industry might be a reboot of the Eurasian technology platforms and the establishment of the Eurasian Competence Centers serving to connect initiatives of business and science. It is necessary to enable them to shape projects not single-handedly but as an interstate project pipeline." According to Vitaly Vovk, the implementation of these initiatives is facilitated by the supranational mechanism for financial support to joint cooperation projects in industry. "Our tool is flexible and all-purpose, it is easily combined with any existing government support measures," Vitaly Vovk stressed. "The mechanism provides for financing research and development aimed at making innovative industrial goods. It is also important for EAEU enterprises created together with CIS partners to have an opportunity to use the mechanism on special conditions. Vitaly Vovk urged businesses of the Member States to be more active in making use of the financial cooperation mechanism.

17 Oct 2025 EEC headquarters hosted meeting of Council of Heads of EAEU Accreditation Bodies The meeting of the Council of Heads of Accreditation Bodies of the Eurasian Economic Union countries discussed harmonization of requirements for the competence level of conformity assessment bodies. The event was attended by Valentin Tataritsky, Minister in charge of Technical Regulation of the Eurasian Economic Commission. Special attention was paid to improving the transparency and responsibility in the activities of accredited laboratories issuing vehicle design safety certificates (VDSCs) based on the technical regulation "On Safety of Wheeled Vehicles." The meeting reviewed concrete proposals on common approaches to accrediting conformity assessment bodies issuing VDSCs. These approaches were developed by an interstate working group. "Ensuring safety of wheeled vehicles is a critical task as people's lives and reliability of transportation directly depend on it. Therefore, it is especially important to ensure transparency of activities and responsibility of laboratories issuing documents on design safety. All market participants should understand their responsibility and adhere to the established requirements," Valentin Tataritsky stressed. The meeting also reviewed the implementation of the draft Agreement on the Procedure for Recognizing Organic Products within the EAEU, particularly conducting mutual comparative assessments and creating a register of accredited production certification bodies. The discussion covered additional proposals on eliminating technical barriers to mutual trade between the EAEU States and with third countries. Special attention was paid to the introduction of a register of persons authorized by manufacturers based on the unified list of issued certificates and registered declarations. The register is being established based on issued permits and will be linked to specific conformity assessment documents. The Council of Heads of Accreditation Bodies of the Member States of the Eurasian Economic Union was established by a Decision of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council in 2018 as an auxiliary authority of the EAEU to develop accreditation in the field of technical regulation within the framework of implementing the Treaty on the Union. In 2025, the Council of Heads is chaired by the Republic of Belarus represented by the Belarusian State Center for Accreditation.

17 Oct 2025 Gohar Barseghyan and Oksana Lut discussed topical issues in agriculture On October 17, following the Golden Autumn 2025 Agricultural Exhibition, there was a working meeting between Gohar Barseghyan, Minister in charge of Industry and Agriculture of the Eurasian Economic Commission, and Oksana Lut, Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. The Ministers discussed the progress of drafting the Plan for implementing the Eurasian Economic Path Declaration on Further Development of Economic Processes within the EAEU until 2030 and for the period until 2045 in terms of the agricultural sector. They also addressed issues on the agenda of the next meeting of the EAEU Agricultural Policy Council scheduled to be held in Minsk on November 13. The two sides attended approaches to creating a mechanism for financial support to cooperative projects in the agricultural sector of the Member States. "The introduction of this financial instrument is a significant practical step for the implementation of joint projects in agriculture enabling to leverage the scale of the EAEU common market, as well as utilize technology and production competencies of the parties and favorable economic conditions for business activities," Gohar Barseghyan mentioned. Gohar Barseghyan and Oksana Lut expressed readiness to expand cooperation on developing the EAEU common agricultural market. They reached an agreement to hold a Eurasian Agro-Industrial Congress in 2026 to discuss prospects for enhancing integration and innovative development of the agricultural sector in the EAEU States.

17 Oct 2025 Promotion of competitive public procurement within EAEU discussed in Moscow Promotion of competitive public procurement within the Eurasian Economic Union as one of the regulation principles in this field was discussed on October 16 in Moscow at the international conference "Public (Municipal) Procurement in the EAEU." The event considered the aspects of promoting competition in the field of public procurement based on digitalization, compliance with bidder qualification requirements, banking support and improved personnel training. Special attention was paid to problematic issues of cross-border access to national services. Maksim Yermalovich, Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation of the Eurasian Economic Commission, informed the conference participants about the trends in the EAEU public procurement market. In particular, he dwelled on implementing the regulation goals and principles in the field of public procurement as defined in the Treaty on the Union. The EEC Minister drew attention to the functioning of the non-competitive public procurement segment where competitive mechanisms are now being actively introduced. "This enables increasing cross-border supply of goods for state needs. A number of the EAEU countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia) use e-store procurement and e-catalogues containing standardized specifications of goods," Maksim Yermalovich pointed out. The EEC Minister explained that the EAEU law does not provide for such procurement methods so far. However, their use is being actively discussed by experts. It is in the interests of the Member States to ensure the coordinated introduction of innovations based on unified regulation. The conference was held by the EEC Competition and Antitrust Regulation Unit jointly with the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation. The event was attended by representatives of authorized authorities of the Member States, e-commerce platforms and EAEU businesses. Chang Yong, Deputy Director of the Department of Treasury of the Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China, delivered a video address to the conference participants.

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