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F a C TS and FIGUR E S U R a S N Eco Nomic U C U N M I I O ATION O GR N TE N IN N O IA S A C R U E E F O S Y N R E A A R R B I I L S U A G I R F U E D N A FA C T S 1H 2017 Eurasian Economic Commission Contents Introduction by the Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission ....... 2 Development of the Eurasian Integration: 1994–2017 ........................................................ 4 Timeline of Events ................................................................................................................ 10 The Member States of the Eurasian Economic Union. Position in the world ................. 12 From the Customs Union to the Eurasian Union ............................................................. 20 Institutions of Eurasian Economic Integration .................................................................. 32 Management Bodies of the Eurasian Economic Union ................................................... 34 Activity areas of the Eurasian Economic Commission ................................................... 38 Procedure for preparation and execution of international instruments ........................ 50 Interaction of the EEC with Business Community of the Member States of the Eurasian Economic Union ........................................................................................ 52 Eurasian Integration as а Part of Global Economy .......................................................... 56 Integration Segment of Economies of the EAEU Member States .................................. 70 Contact Information of the Eurasian Economic Commission ......................................... 75 1 Eurasian Economic Integration: Facts and Figures Introduction by the Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission Dear readers and 50 states and the leading international 2017 is one of the most notable from colleagues! interstate unions. Treatments on the point of view of the efficiency of preferential trade regimes or free trade work made by the Commission. In April I am pleased to represent for you an zones agreements were concluded or the new EAEU Customs Code was annual digest in which by means of pending conclusion with some of them, adopted. The document focuses on the facts and figures, statistical informa- for example, with Vietnam, India, Iran, application of paperless electronic tion and analytical summaries presents Singapore and with a number of other technologies and online services. It the results of the Eurasian Economic states. also contributes for greater simplifica- Commission on the deepening of the tion of many procedures. In May this integration union of five states – Arme- As a result of establishment of the year, in the Union began to work nia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan Common economic Space business markets of medicines and medical and Russia. had unrestricted access to the devices. Within the territory of EAEU a markets of the Member States. The new technical regulations were Looking back, it can be stated with services freedom of movement has adopted. They cover safe handling of confidence that a lot of previously set been already provided in 43 sectors. clean drinking water and fire-protec- out objects, while establishing the There are plans under way to form tion equipment, as well as chemicals Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), have coherent policies in transport, and playground equipment safety. become a reality. Due to political will of industry and agriculture. The citizens our state leaders was created and of the Union obtained an opportunity These are all very significant results of started to act the Common Economic to live, study and work in any Member integration, which significantly reduce Space. It is a global market that unites States without an authorization and a time and resource costs both for more than 180 million people. Its main non-quota basis as well as a free entrepreneurs of the EAEU Member principles freedom of movements of emergency health care etc. States and their business partners from goods, services, labour and capital. It third countries. has been created an integration A large scale digital base for a new structure, sustainable to any world leap forward of economy is forming The EEC monitors the implementation crises, with substantial potential for within the Union and it’s considered as of the Treaty on the EAEU. The essen- further development. An increase of a fundamental priority for further tial part of these activities is to identify domestic trade and deepening of development of the EAEU. At the level barriers to the movement of goods, cooperation between entities and of the EAEU has been created the services, labour and capital. We facilitation of conditions for labour working group that includes the systematically discuss these problems migration that are some actual results vice-premiers of the national govern- on the level of the five states and jointly of our work. It could be hardly to ments of the Union with the aim to eliminate them. Now 60 obstacles have achieve without enhanced support of develop the Main directions for been recorded in the Union, and on the presidents, prime-ministers, as well realization of the EAEU digital until many of them have been reached as without the active participation of 2025. Digitalization of all spheres will resolving agreements. the national authorities representatives change the image of economy, models and business. Due to help of all and methods of data management, The digest, I would like to represent, is concerned parties the EAEU is working products and services, state functions also belongs to the essential part of the systematically towards realization of and formats of its cooperation with integration process. It dwells on the the main directions, including custom society. Forming the EAEU common Eurasian integration, its goals and cooperation, industry and agricultural digital space we are eager to create perspectives. I hope it will be interest- development, technical regulation, new institutions and infrastructure ing to anyone, who wants to become a veterinary and phytosanitary inspec- that ensure multiplicative effect for a participant to one of the significant tions. large number of spheres and sectors projects in Eurasia which has of economy. We need to develop an already become a reality The success of the Eurasian Integration electronization programme of the and will have a great process is already evident. Today the Union – “GOELRO-2Plan” which will future! Commission jointly with the Member become one of the main drivers to States is developing trade and eco- modernize the Member States nomic cooperation with approximately economies. Tigran Sargsyan 2 1H 2017 Eurasian Economic Commission 3 Eurasian Economic Integration: Facts and Figures Development of the Eurasian Integration: 1994–2017 1994 In recent history of the Eurasian integration a new 1996 chapter began. Each page is valuable and significant In 1996, the Leaders of the three states, togeth- in its own way. It cannot be torn out of the single er with the Head of the Kyrgyz Republic, signed book for the Member States of the Union without the Treaty on Deepening Integration in Economic prejudice to the meaning, and its content continues and Humanitarian Areas. The document reflected to be added daily. The prologue of this big book close economic and cultural ties, common history. starts in 1994, when the leader of the Republic of However, the provisions of the Treaty looked into Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev proposed creation the future – the Republic of Belarus, the Republic on the Eurasian space of a really working union of of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation stated states integrated with economic relationships. the indissoluble prospects for a common economic development. 1995 1998 In early 1995, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation In 1998, the Republic of Tajikistan joined the Treaty. signed the Agreement on the Customs Union aimed at removing obstacles to free economic in- The intention to move towards closer cooperation on teraction between economic entities of the parties, the basis of unification of the regulatory framework and as well as ensuring free trade and fair competition. harmonization of processes of economic restructuring The Customs Union of the 1990s failed to really has led the leaders of these countries to the creation operate for a number of reasons. However, the in 2000 of a new integration structure – the Eurasian experience obtained was indispensable to develop Economic Community (EurAsEC). further effective strategy for a phased convergence of neighbouring countries, which are best prepared for integration. The Treaty on Deepening of Integration in Economic and Humanitarian Areas 4 1H 2017 Eurasian Economic Commission uted to the convergence of economic policies. All this resulted in the acceleration of the “launch” of the Customs Union. 2010 The Customs Union of the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation began its work in January 2010 and just a year and a half after, in July 2011, it started to operate at its full capacity: the customs territories of three states were combined into the common customs territory. Within the territory, the rules of the Customs Code, the single The Agreement on Formation of the Common Economic customs tariff, the single system of foreign trade and Space customs regulations, as well as the common legal framework in the sphere of technical regulation began to be applied. 2011 On November
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