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23.12.2021 (Обновлено: 17.02.2022 18:27)

EAEU countries are developing common approaches to ensuring free movement of workers amidst pandemics and developing cooperation projects in healthcare

The Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission adopted a recommendation aimed at ensuring free movement of labor force within the Union amidst pandemics.

Presenting the document, Ruslan Beketaev, EEC Minister in charge of Economy and Financial Policy, noted that in the context of COVID-19, the rapidly changing conditions in the Union's common labor market dictate the need to create flexible mechanisms to facilitate the employment of citizens of the EAEU countries.
The recommendation emphasizes the need to develop common approaches to regulating labor migration processes in a single integration space amidst pandemics.

The EAEU countries are encouraged to allow those citizens of the other Member States, who have confirmed recruitment arrangements with employers and competent authorities of the state of employment, to enter their territory.

In addition, the recommendation takes into account the issues of compliance with the sanitary and epidemiological requirements of the states of departure and states of employment.

Besides, the meeting of the Board considered some proposals for cooperation projects in healthcare, primarily in the field of scientific research and the introduction of innovative developments in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases.

These proposals were developed as part of implementing the measures and mechanisms of the Strategic Directions for the Development of Eurasian Integration until 2025 in the field of healthcare.

According to Ruslan Beketaev, the implementation of joint initiatives and cooperation projects in healthcare will contribute to creating conditions for the mutual integration of the EAEU countries' science, acquiring new knowledge, developing new technologies, and establishing scientific contacts, which is especially important amidst global threats such as the pandemic of novel coronavirus COVID-19 infection that entails large-scale negative socio-economic consequences for all countries.

"Such projects will contribute to the joint generation of knowledge within the EAEU, since today, the most significant health problems can be solved only collectively," Ruslan Beketaev emphasized.