EAEU forms group to implement pilot programme of electronic international waybills

ArmInfo. On March 11, the  Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission decided to create a working  group to implement a pilot project on the use of electronic  international transport consignment notes e-CMR in international road  freight transport in the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union.

As reported by the press service of the EEC, the working group will  include representatives of authorized bodies of the EAEU countries in  the field of transport, digitalization, tax and customs regulation,  as well as the business community, scientific organizations and  industry associations.

The head of the expert platform is the Minister of Energy and  Infrastructure of the EEC Arzybek Kozhoshev. "Today we have taken  another step towards the transition to legally significant electronic  document management in the field of road transport. The working group  will determine the timing and procedure for the pilot project on the  use of electronic international transport consignment notes in the  EAEU, and will also work out practical issues of its implementation,"  the minister noted. The main goal of the project is to ensure  practical testing of the technology of cross-border exchange of  electronic documents between entities of different states using  digital signature and "trusted third party" mechanisms.

The pilot project will help speed up the processes of obtaining and  verifying transport documents, as well as reduce costs in the  implementation of transport, logistics and control and supervision  procedures.

The meeting of the working group is planned to be held in the second  quarter of 2025.