Tuesday, April 30 2019 13:45

ArmInfo. The meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council in an expanded format has started in Yerevan. On the agenda - 5 issues.

As the chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission  (EEC) Tigran Sargsyan said earlier, there are 13 issues on the agenda  of the meeting of the Council in general. The first eight, as noted  by Sargsyan, are planned to be discussed in a narrow composition.

So, in a narrow composition at the level of heads of governments of  the EAEU countries, it was planned to discuss: the issue of the  implementation of the project "Eurasian network of industrial  cooperation, subcontracting and technology transfer"; the issue of  using national cryptographic standards for electronic digital  signature (electronic signature) in the course of informational  interaction of business entities of the Republic of Armenia with the  executive authorities of the Russian Federation and business entities  of the Russian Federation with the executive authorities of the  Republic of Armenia; the question of attributing white sugar, which  is a foreign product, to goods that are not subject to placement  under the customs procedure of a free customs zone, and to goods for  which the free warehouse customs procedure does not apply; the  question of changing the Decision of the Board of the Eurasian  Economic Commission No. 90 of May 29, 2018; the question of canceling  the Decision of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission of  January 22, 2019 No. 11 <On the fulfillment by the Russian Federation  of obligations in the framework of the functioning of the internal  market of the Eurasian Economic Union>; the question of the progress  of work on the elimination by the member states of the Eurasian  Economic Union of obstacles to the functioning of the internal market  of the Eurasian Economic Union; the question of approving uniform  approaches to determining the country of origin when exporting goods;  the question of the standards for the distribution of import customs  duties among the budgets of the member states of the Eurasian  Economic Union. In expanded format, with the participation of  delegations of the EAEU member states, it is proposed to consider:  the creation of conditions for the development of a digital trading  ecosystem in the Eurasian Economic Union; the question of the annual  report of the Eurasian Economic Commission on monitoring the  assessment of the regulatory impact of the draft decisions of the  Eurasian Economic Commission in 2018; the question of the description  of the reference model of the national mechanism of a single window  in the system of regulation of foreign economic activity; the  question of submitting to the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council the  candidacy of a member of the Council of the Eurasian Economic  Commission; the question of the time and place of the next meeting of  the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council.

It should be noted that a substantial part of the fundamental issues  of integration cooperation of the countries participating in the EAEU  is considered within the framework of the intergovernmental council.   In 2019, Armenia chairs the union's bodies, including the  intergovernmental council.