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Two new industries included in Eurasian rules for participation in public procurement
On September 26, the Eurasian Economic Commission's Council agreed on new production conditions for six commodity items of four industries to be included in Annex No. 1 to the Rules for determining the country of origin of certain types of goods (COG) for public procurement purposes.
According to Bakhyt Sultanov, EEC Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation, the Commission, jointly with the authorized bodies of the Eurasian Economic Union countries and business representatives, continues to fill the Eurasian COG Rules with new production conditions and commodity items.
"Today the Vice Prime Ministers of the Eurasian Economic Union countries agreed on new production conditions for goods to participate in the Eurasian procurement. Now their suppliers and manufacturers have equal access to public procurement, regardless of residency. I would like to note that the Council's decision contains two new industries for which the Eurasian five countries had no agreed requirements before. These are “Heavy Engineering” and “Measuring Instruments,” the Minister noted.
Nowadays, the Rules cover more than 700 product names.
Today's decision supplements the "Special Machine Engineering" sector with production conditions for vehicles designed for transporting food grade liquids. The "Heavy Engineering" sector is now represented by two headings (belt elevators and other machines for lifting, handling, loading or unloading). The "Measuring Instruments" section includes instruments and apparatus for physical and chemical analysis, detection or measurement of ionizing measurements, and automatic regulation/control.
Furthermore, at the initiative of the Republic of Kazakhstan, it was agreed to include the production conditions for pipes, tubes and hoses of the "Chemical Industry" sector in the COG Rules.
