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Zhanar Adikova, "The public procurement market in the Union is subject to an inviolable principle enshrined in supranational law"
Of particular importance is the work of the Eurasian Economic Commission to create a full-scale public procurement market accessible to suppliers of the Eurasian Economic Union and operating under common rules, especially given the focus of the Member States on import substitution.
This was emphasized by Zhanar Adikova, Director of the EEC Department for Competition and Public Procurement Policy, in the framework of the international exhibition of non-food products NON-FOOD-ASIA EXPO 2024 in Almaty. Her speech Issues of Barrier-Free Access to Mutual Participation in Public Procurement within the EAEU was delivered on the platform organized by the exhibition's consulting center.
The public procurement market in our Union is subject to the inviolable principle of ensuring national treatment in public procurement, enshrined in supranational law. Any member country of the Union has to ensure that the treatment and conditions of public procurement for goods and services from other EAEU countries are no less favorable than for its own suppliers," said Zhanar Adikova.
She touched upon the issues related to the prevention of barriers in public (municipal) procurement, the procedure for confirming the country of origin in the EAEU for the purposes of such procurement, the elimination of obstacles, including through mutual recognition of electronic digital signatures for participation in public (municipal) procurement.
Zhanar Adikova reminded that in 2023 the Member States signed the Agreement on mutual recognition of bank guarantees for public procurement purposes, which is very important in this respect. The Agreement eliminated the relevant restriction in the EAEU internal market, defined uniform requirements to banks whose guarantees are recognized in other countries of the Union for public procurement, approaches to creating the list of such banks, the procedure for maintaining a register of issued bank guarantees. Among the main tasks of the Commission, according to the Director of the EEC Department, is the implementation of the Agreement.
As part of the center's work, representatives of government agencies of the Union countries and the Commission held consultations for entrepreneurs on exports from and imports to the EAEU. The topics included the procedure for organizing procurement, establishing joint ventures, setting commodity flow directions, interaction between product suppliers and customers.
