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Rules for determining country of origin of goods for public procurement supplemented with new commodity items and production conditions
On April 21, the Eurasian Economic Commission's Council approved the production conditions for 38 commodity items and agreed on the country of origin for 174 goods confirmed by the ST-1 certificate to participate in public procurement in the Eurasian Economic Union countries.
The Commission's Competition Unit, jointly with the authorized public authorities of the five countries, business associations and entrepreneurs, agreed on the production conditions under which pulse oximeters, endoscopes, blood transfusion equipment, external defibrillators, machines for cleaning, sorting or calibrating seeds, certain types of compressors and air pumps for the oil and gas industry and other goods will be considered as manufactured in the territories of the EAEU countries.
According to Bakhyt Sultanov, EEC Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation, the decision adopted by the Council is a tangible progress.
“The issues of public procurement for countries are particularly sensitive, and the process of coordinating positions here takes quite a long time. Today's decision has adopted production conditions for a number of goods, under which the manufacturer can safely declare its goods as "Eurasian". The decision also contains 174 goods that were previously banned and could not be procured. Now this so-called "grey area" has been eliminated. Manufacturers and suppliers of these goods, which are of social importance for the EAEU countries' citizens, such as means of communication, medical equipment, stationery, inventory and equipment for physical education and sports, and much more, can add their details to the Eurasian Register based on the ST-1 certificate and become full-fledged procurement participants,” the EEC Minister summed up.
For reference
Following the adopted decision, the Rules for determining the country of origin of certain types of goods for public procurement purposes approved by Decision No. 105 of the EEC Council dated November 23, 2020, contain production conditions for 407 commodity titles from 14 manufacturing industries. Moreover, the Rules contain 276 commodity items accepted for public procurement based on the ST-1 certificate.
