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Maxim Ermolovich, "Digitalization of public procurement in the Union countries, ensuring their informational transparency are among our priorities"
This was stated by Maxim Ermolovich, Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation of the Eurasian Economic Commission, at the parliamentary hearings in the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus regarding the development of digital law in the country.
Maxim Ermolovich reminded that the Strategy 2025 provides for digitalization of public procurement in the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union, ensuring their informational transparency, including through the provision of free access to information on procurement, the register of unfair suppliers and regulatory legal acts of Member States in the field of procurement; mutual recognition of bank guarantees, reduction of exemptions from national regimes.
The fundamental role is assigned to ensuring mutual recognition of electronic digital signatures for the purpose of public procurement under the national treatment conditions. The experts of the parties are actively working on the text of the relevant Rules. The Treaty on the Union was amended to give the Council of the Commission competence to approve such amendments.
The ratification process of the Agreement on Mutual Recognition of Bank Guarantees is being finalized.
In order to ensure a uniform approach in confirming the country of origin for the purposes of public procurement, the Commission, jointly with the EAEU states, constantly improves the Rules for determining the country of origin of certain types of goods for these purposes. They made it possible to create a unified digital resource – the Eurasian Register of Industrial Goods – which helped harmonize the receipt of information on products manufactured in the Member States.
Information from the Eurasian Register of Industrial Goods (statement) is a unified document, the provision of which ensures the unhindered participation of potential suppliers from one EAEU Member State in public procurement of another. Currently, the Eurasian Register contains information on 19,450 goods by 208 manufacturers.
"The best prospects for implementing the digital agenda in public procurement are for initiatives that "grew out" of national best practices. We already have ongoing projects, such as the introduction of a new procurement method of e-store. We are striving for the transition to electronic conclusion of agreements and appealing, and speeding up procurement procedures," said the EEC Minister.
