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22 Aug 2025 EEC Intensifies Cooperation in Railway Engineering Using Financial Support Mechanism To expand industrial cooperation in railway engineering in the Eurasian Economic Union countries, representatives of the Industry and Agriculture Unit of the Eurasian Economic Commission held a number of working meetings with senior management and technical specialists of Belarusian machine-tool enterprises at the production site of Kolomna Locomotive Works, Moscow region. At the moment, this enterprise is developing a project to manufacture 1MW to 7.35MW engines. It is planned to implement it in part through the financial support mechanism for cooperative projects in the EAEU industries. During the events, the parties expressed their readiness for cooperation and set about exchanging commercial offers and preparing equipment supply contracts. In this regard, Vitaly Vovk, Deputy Director of the EEC Industrial Policy Department, noted, "Industrialists of our Union's countries need to realize the importance of building new cooperation chains to achieve technological sovereignty not only for individual enterprises but also for the entire Eurasian transport engineering cluster and related industries." Working meetings were held with representatives of such companies as Belorgstankinprom, Vistan, Ruchservomotor, Krasny Borets, Gomel Machine Tools and Assemblies Plant, StankoGomel. Kolomna Locomotive Works manufactures mainline passenger diesel locomotives, electric locomotives and diesel engines.
22 Aug 2025 EAEU and ASEAN Cooperation Plans Until 2030 Discussed in Malaysia On August 21 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, current results and prospects of cooperation between the Eurasian Economic Union countries and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) were discussed during Russia–ASEAN consultations of senior economic officials. The Eurasian Economic Commission was represented by Mikael Belluyan, Director of the EEC Integration Development Department. The EEC representative summed up implementation results of the Cooperation Program between the EEC and ASEAN until 2025 emphasizing positive dialogue dynamics and high potential for enhancing it further. "This year, we finish implementing the Cooperation Program for 2021-2025. In this period, we have achieved significant results. The institutional framework for cooperation has been created and reinforced, new interaction formats and mechanisms have been tested including EAEU-ASEAN Days, sectoral seminars, business dialogue guest sessions," told Mikael Belluyan. The EEC Department Director also told about the work on the new Cooperation Program between the EEC and ASEAN for 2026-2030. "This document focuses both on the proven cooperation formats and expanding sectoral interaction. Among the new areas are agriculture, competition policy and law enforcement, cross-border and international freight transportation. The new program will pay special attention to developing dialogue on sustainable development, digitalization, innovation and technological progress," commented Head of the EEC Integration Development Department. Mikael Belluyan and Satvinder Singh, ASEAN Deputy Secretary-General, discussed medium-term plans including toward granting the EAEU the ASEAN sectoral or dialogue partner status. On the sidelines of the consultations the EEC also held working meetings with its partners from the ASEAN countries. Discussion with Malaysian representatives covered prospects for interaction formalization and holding an EAEU presentation for officials of this country at the EEC headquarters. With the delegation of Indonesia, the EEC addressed holding the first meeting of the joint working group in pursuance of the Memorandum of Cooperation.
21 Aug 2025 Gohar Barseghyan, "The EAEU demonstrates progress in implementing strategic goals in industry and agriculture" Gohar Barseghyan, Minister in charge of Industry and Agriculture of the Eurasian Economic Commission, stressed the importance of the EEC together with the Eurasian Economic Union countries integrating production chains, developing innovative technologies and improving competitiveness of enterprises in the Members States. It is on these EAEU activities that Gohar Barseghyan focused at the plenary session Greater Eurasian Partnership: Development Vectors and Instruments during the 2nd annual meeting of the New Era — New Ways forum held in Moscow. "The Union demonstrates stable progress in implementing strategic goals to develop the industrial and agricultural sectors. Our joint projects contribute not only to strengthening the internal market but also to increasing the EAEU export potential globally," said the EEC Minister. Gohar Barseghyan emphasized the importance of joint efforts of the Eurasian Five countries for enabling sustainable economic growth and expanding trade ties in the Eurasian space. According to her, a good example is the launch of the financial support mechanism for industrial cooperation within the EAEU. "Given a successful launch of the mechanism and its practical application in the industrial sector, at the moment the Commission is working on extending it to agriculture," stressed Gohar Barseghyan.
20 Aug 2025 Andrey Slepnev Received Heads of Negotiating Teams on Concluding Free Trade Agreement between EAEU and India On August 20, Andrey Slepnev, Minister in charge of Trade of the Eurasian Economic Commission, received heads of negotiating teams on concluding a Free Trade Agreement between the Eurasian Economic Union and the Republic of India: Mikhail Cherekaev, Deputy Director of the EEC Trade Policy Department, and Shri Ajay Bhadoo, Additional Secretary in the Department of Commerce, Ministry of Trade and Industry of the Republic of India. The heads of negotiating teams informed the EEC Minister about the approved terms of reference for the negotiations. The parties discussed further steps to launch the negotiation process and other organizational aspects of the future trade deal. "We are pleased to note a significant increase in the trade turnover between the EAEU and India that has been observed in the past few years. We expect trade to grow further, as well as sectoral cooperation to strengthen, including through the use of the North-South economic corridor," said Andrey Slepnev. According to the International Trade Center (a joint agency of the World Trade Organization and the United Nations), in 2024, trade turnover between the EAEU countries and India amounted to 69 bn dollars, having increased by 7% compared to 2023.
19 Aug 2025 EEC Adopted Approaches to Unifying Crop Seed Production Methods and Schemes and Measures for Sustainable Development of Sugar Industry At its August 19 meeting, the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission adopted recommendations on approaches to unifying crop seed (planting stock) production methods and schemes in their circulation within the Eurasian Economic Union and measures for sustainable development of the sugar industry. "The seed production document is adopted to implement the list of unification measures approved by leaders of the Eurasian Economic Union for consistent convergence of national crop production legislation and providing agricultural production with high-quality seeds of best varieties," noted Gohar Barseghyan, EEC Minister in charge of Industry and Agriculture. The adopted approaches recommend the Union states to apply scientifically sound methods and schemes for producing seeds (planting stock) of cereals, legumes, technical, oil-bearing, fruit crops, berries and potato, as well as scientifically sound measures and procedures for preserving crop varieties producing seeds with high varietal and yield characteristics. The document specifies information provided in a seed production scheme, including about the crop, variety, required measures for producing, preparing, sowing, harvesting, conditioning, storing seeds and main agrotechnical and other activities. The use of the EEC recommendation will enable production and sale of high-quality seeds of varieties having ultimate varietal, economically valuable and biological characteristics in volumes required for varietal changes and renewal. It is also important that equivalence of procedures for producing seeds (planting stock) will be ensured at enterprises of the EAEU countries engaged in crop seed production, with eliminated differences in national legislation affecting mutual trade. As for the set of measures recommended by the Commission for sustainable development of the sugar industry, its implementation will also facilitate addressing a range of practical issues. First of all, it will help improve the efficiency of the industry, reduce dependence on imported sugar and means of production, as well as contribute to increasing export potential.
19 Aug 2025 EEC Amended Lists of Standards to Technical Regulation on Food Products On August 19, the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission amended the list of voluntary standards to the Customs Union technical regulation "On Food Safety". The list of standards was supplemented with two interstate standards, GOST 35038-2023 "Grain-based product. Talkan" and GOST 35041-2023 "Grain-based product. Sümölök. Technical Specifications" developed by the Kyrgyz Republic in accordance with the Program to the said technical regulation. Moreover, two national standards of the Kyrgyz Republic were excluded as corresponding interstate standards were developed based on them. The amendments come into effect after 180 calendar days have elapsed from the date of official publication of the EEC Board's decision. The amendments were prepared by the Commission in the framework of implementing paragraph 36, subparagraph b of the Procedure for Developing and Adopting Lists of International and Regional (Interstate) Standards approved by the EEC Council in 2016 (as amended by Decision No. 65 of the Commission's Council dated April 15, 2022).
Rules for Filling Out Express Cargo Declarations Gradually Unified 19 Aug 2025 Rules for Filling Out Express Cargo Declarations Gradually Unified On August 19, the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission amended the procedure for filling out express cargo declarations aimed at further unification of submitted information. Information on the placement of goods for temporary storage will have to be indicated in all EAEU states, whereas now it is provided only in three countries of the Union. That will automate customs operations related to temporary storage and declaration. The approved amendments will also allow declaring information on complying with the currency legislation of the EAEU countries so that foreign traders do not have to submit it separately and can positively affect the duration of customs operations. Decision No. 142 of the EEC Board dated August 28, 2018 approved the form and procedure for filling out declarations for express cargo goods that is used in customs declaration of goods moved by express carriers in trade turnover.  
18 Aug 2025 EAEU Develops Legal Framework to Eliminate Technical Barriers to Trade with Third Countries Maxim Kim, Deputy Director of EEC Technical Regulation and Accreditation Department of the Eurasian Economic Commission, told about eliminating technical barriers to trade between the Eurasian Economic Union and third countries during the international forum "New Horizons for Accreditation in the Context of Modern Challenges" in Minsk. In particular, he noted that the foundation for a substantive discussion of elimination of technical barriers was laid when the Treaty on the EAEU was still in preparation. In 2021, the Member States signed the Agreement on the procedure and conditions for eliminating technical barriers to mutual trade with third countries. It is based on the principle of equal obligations of the EAEU and a third country leading to the elimination of such barriers, while the implementation of practical arrangements envisages an international treaty between the EAEU and its five Member States with a third country. The Agreement on international treaties of the Union with third countries, international organizations and international integration associations dated 2018 provides for assessing economic feasibility of concluding international treaties, specifically those on eliminating technical barriers to trade. "The main difficulty is the need for assessing economic feasibility of concluding an international treaty, as it means defining a list of products to be covered by future agreements on elimination of technical barriers to trade with a certain third country," stressed Maxim Kim. According to the Commission's representative, the subject of future discussions might be procedures for determining comparability of mandatory requirements of the EAEU and a third country, for appointing conformity assessment authorities taking part in mutual recognition of conformity assessment results, ensuring control over safety of products entering into circulation in the EAEU states based on recognizing the conformity assessment results obtained by foreign authorities. Maxim Kim expressed hope that the joint work of experts from the Member States, third countries, the Commission, all interested authorities and business community representatives would help address those issues and would facilitate expanding trade and economic ties of the EAEU with third countries. At the forum the EEC representative held a number of meetings with delegates from the Ministry of Industry, State Committee for Standardization of the Republic of Belarus and Belarusian State Institute for Standardization and Certification. They discussed interaction between the national operator of electronic logbook systems in Belarus and Electronic Logbook JSC, administrator of electronic logbook systems, as well as creating and maintaining a unified register of issued vehicle type approvals and vehicle design safety certificates.
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