A meeting of the Chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission Board Mikhail Myasnikovich and EEC Board members (Ministers) with Belarusian business community

The meeting, organized in Brest by the Eurasian Economic Commission in cooperation with the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, has continued the good and efficient practice of interaction of the EEC and the EAEU chambers of commerce and industry to improve the business environment, facilitate export promotion to third countries.

Participating in the meeting were the EEC Board Chairman Mikhail Myasnikovich, Member of the Board – Minister in charge of Integration and Macroeconomics Sergei Glazyev, Member of the Board – Minister in charge of Energy and Infrastructure Emil Kaikiyev, Member of the Board – Minister in charge of Industry and Agroindustrial Complex Artak Kamalyan, Member of the Board – Minister in charge of Technical Regulation Viktor Nazarenko, Member of the Board – Minister in charge of Customs Cooperation Oleg Pankratov, Member of the Board – Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation Arman Shakkaliyev, Chairman of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Vladimir Ulakhovich, First Deputy Chairman of the Board of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus Sergei Kalechits, Deputy Minister of Economy of the Republic of Belarus Sergei Mityanski, Deputy Chairman of the Brest Region Executive Committee Dmitry Gorodetski. The Belarusian business community was presented by heads of more than 60 enterprises, from industry flagships to SMEs.

During the meeting, the issues of interest for the Belarusian entrepreneurs were discussed concerning doing business within the Eurasian Economic Union, the existing barriers that impede free access to the EAEU states' markets, the proposals for their prompt solution.

As the Chairman of the EEC Board Mikhail Myasnikovich noted during the briefing following the meeting, businessmen voiced questions in such areas as ensuring drug safety and increasing the volume of drugs based on own raw materials in the EAEU market, removing transport barriers when moving the goods, originating from the member states, across the EAEU territory, the introduction of electronic document flow in the transportation of goods, the adoption of documents ensuring the functioning of the common market for oil products and gas, issues of industrial cooperation, freedom of movement of citizens through the development of a Eurasian vaccination certificate, ensuring equal access of products produced within the EAEU to the markets of other Union member states.

Mikhail Myasnikovich said that the EEC Board has developed the system of interaction with the business community – through public discussions of the draft laws to be adopted, the work of committees, the calls for proposals to form the EEC Council meetings agenda. At the same time, a direct meeting with businesspeople is supposed to be an even more effective feedback mechanism, which facilitates the identification of the specific issues of the business interest, allows estimating the efficiency of the work done and learning about the new tasks to be solved. "Such meetings with business should be held regularly in order to listen to the business community representatives, to work out specific, most pressing issues, and to substantively tell about the work done on each of them a year later, so that entrepreneurs of the EAEU countries feel involved in the integration processes, as well as acknowledge the help that the Board can provide," Mikhail Myasnikovich highlighted.