Belarusian solutions for marking light industry products in Eurasian Economic Union

Viktor Dravitsa said that Belarus has already accumulated some experience of marking goods using control and identification signs, therefore, taking into account Belarusian technical solutions has been suggested for developing the system. Apart from marking with identification signs the proposal includes using a promising radiofrequency-based identification technology. According to the source, the creation of a system to mark individual kinds of light industry products is important because these products represent part of the critical group of commodities that involves considerable percentages of counterfeited goods. Such products are often sold illegally in marketplaces, primarily in Russia.

The specialist explained that the suggested control signs will use radiofrequency identification - an RFID label. It is a passive device that produces a signal once it is in a pickup field. "The system is used internationally but every national organization secures uniqueness via the three-character prefix it has been allocated," added Viktor Dravitsa.

At present this modern technology allows identifying economic operators and their merchandise. The technology has been used for the digital consignment notes that were introduced in Belarus in 2013, noted the Director of the Interindustry Research and Practice Center for Identification Systems and Digital Business Operations. In his words, the suggested kind of identification signs for all the Eurasian Economic Union member states can be based on the legislation Belarus uses, BelTA reports.

Speaking about the experience of using control signs to mark commodities, Vladimir Mukvich, head of the central office for control over excisable goods, gambling business, and digital systems to control merchandise sales of the Belarusian Tax and Duties Ministry, noted that since this kind of marking was introduced, manufacturers and importers of marked products have voluntarily paid about Br8.2 trillion in taxes and duties to the state budget.

Among other things the introduction of the marking technique has moved considerable volumes of commodities out of the shadow economy. For instance, legal sales of mobile phones have quadrupled, legal sales of juices have increased by 3.2 times, legal sales of TV sets have increased by 2.6 times, and legal sales of notebooks have increased by 2.3 times.