CU reconciles positions on key provisions of Eurasian Economic Union Treaty
MOSCOW. KAZINFORM - The Customs Union member states have managed to find common ground on many fundamental provisions of the Eurasian Economic Union Treaty, the press service of the Eurasian Economic Commission told BelTA following the session of the Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission that took place in Moscow on 27-28 March.
The session discussed the elaboration of the Eurasian Economic Union Treaty taking into consideration integration processes. The participants of the session discussed the sections on trade policy, technical regulation, sanitary and phyto-sanitary measures, manufacturing industry and agribusiness, natural monopolies, transport and power engineering, competition and procurement, taxes, currency policy and financial markets, intellectual property, services and investments, labor migration, macroeconomics and statistics.
"At the session the parties underlined the importance of the work on the treaty and pointed out that the member states managed to reconcile their positions on many conceptual issues. The participants of the session noted that the conclusion of the Eurasian Economic Union Treaty scheduled for May 2014 will become an important milestone in the development of the Eurasian project," the press service noted, BelTA reports.
Members of the Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission discussed progress in compiling the list of exemptions and other restrictions, including barriers, as well as mutual access of businesses to the markets of the Customs Union and Single Economic Space member states.