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22 Oct 2025 EEC delegation took part in cis events on competition in Brest On October 22, a delegation of the Eurasian Economic Commission headed by Maksim Yermalovich, the EEC Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation, took part in a meeting of the Interstate Council for Antimonopoly Policy (ICAP) in Brest. The event discussed competition matters relevant for the Commonwealth of Independent States. In particular, pricing in the markets of medicines and medical services was considered. Moreover, the results of work of the Headquarters for Joint Investigations of Antitrust Law Violations were reported and endorsed. The operations of the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange were presented. "Ongoing exchange of information on the practices of our colleagues from the CIS countries allows expanding our capabilities to set and apply general competition rules. ICAP is indeed a valuable instrument for promoting sectoral cooperation," Maksim Yermalovich mentioned. The EEC Minister presented the most remarkable activities of the Commission's Unit he heads, including the law enforcement practice and results of the Commission's sectoral studies in markets, work on strategic documents, competition advocacy and international cooperation. "The Commission is currently elaborating the concept for the EAEU Common Exchange Market. The EAEU Observer States are also taking part in this work. We are ready to explore the practices of the CIS countries and propose to include this matter on the ICAP agenda," the EEC Minister stated.  Special attention was paid to the interaction between the EEC and ICAP with national specialized authorities, as well as the outcomes of the meeting of heads of national competition authorities and Member of the Commission's Board in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation held shortly before.

22 Oct 2025 Maksim Yermalovich and heads of EAEU national competition authorities discussed topical issues of competition in Brest On October 21 in Brest, there was a 5+1 meeting between heads of the authorized competition authorities of the EAEU countries and Maksim Yermalovich, Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation of the Eurasian Economic Commission. "The agenda is extensive, the range of discussion points is expanding and there is a need to hold meetings at such level more often," the Minister emphasized. The meeting discussed the positions of the EAEU national competition agencies on reviewing the existing criteria for transboundary markets and mechanisms for performing expert examination when investigating cases on violations of general competition rules. The parties also reviewed the enforcement of the Commission's reasoned submission on conducting certain proceedings as part of investigating and considering cases on violating general competition rules in the EAEU transboundary markets. There was an exchange of opinions on drawing up the lists of markets for assessing the state of competition and sectoral studies in 2026, as well as the selection criteria. "The selection of markets for studying will have been completed by the end of 2025 and the work will start early next year," the EEC Minister summed up. Maksim Yermalovich also gave a brief presentation of the Competition Unit's achievements on the international track, including in preparing a review of competition regulation at the regional level and cooperation with UNCTAD, OECD and ICN. The discussion participants considered their assistance to the UN in recognizing December 5 as the World Competition Day, as well as mutual support to initiatives put forward by the EAEU competition authorities on international venues. The meeting was attended by the head of the competition authority of Uzbekistan that is an Observer State at the EAEU. The meeting also featured the head of the specialized agency of Tajikistan as a guest.

22 Oct 2025 Maksim Yermalovich: "The EEC is ready to expand the areas of work in the field of competition within the CIS" On October 21 in Brest, a delegation of the Eurasian Economic Commission headed by Maksim Yermalovich, Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation, took part in the work of the Headquarters for Joint Investigations of Antitrust Law Violations in the Commonwealth of Independent States. The meeting participants discussed reports on state price (tariff) regulation and on civil law protection for those affected by violations in the field of competition, reflecting the information on the EEC work in these areas. "We are working on addressing the issue of providing affected economic entities with a possibility to seek reimbursement of damages inflicted by violations of general competition rules in the EAEU transboundary markets," the EEC Minister pointed out. The meeting considered the influence of artificial intelligence on the state of competition and problematic competition issues in the markets of medicines and medical devices. Maksim Yermalovich told about the established working group on artificial intelligence for addressing the problems of prevention and suppression of violations of general competition rules in the EAEU caused by the use of AI. "The Eurasian Economic Commission is ready to move beyond the EAEU borders and involve other competition authorities of the CIS countries in its work," Maksim Yermalovich stressed. The EEC Minister also shared the results of the Commission's sectoral study in the pharmaceutical industry.

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.