1. Fifth Session, Geneva, 18-19 June 2012
Eurasian Economic Commission Republic of Belarus, Republic of Kazakhstan, Russian Federation
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Committee on Trade
Fifth Session, Geneva, June 2012

2. The Eurasian Economic Union
History of the Eurasian Integration
Establishment of the Commission of the Customs Union / Devolution of some powers of national authorities to the CCU
Abolishment of customs clearance procedure of the goods in member-countries’ mutual trade
Launching the mechanism of enrolment and allocation of import customs duties
Entering into force of the Customs Code of the CU
Launching of the Common Economic Space: entering into force of the CES agreements
The Eurasian Economic Union
Treaty on the CU and the CES
1995
1999
2000
2007
Jan.2010
July 2010
July 2011
Jan.2012
Feb.2012
2015
Establishment of the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) responsible for efficient promoting of the CU and the CES forming
International organization: legal capacity
Final transfer of customs control to the external borders of the CU
- forming the common customs territory of member-countries
Establishment of the Eurasian Economic Commission
- (legal successor of the Commission of the Customs Union)
Agreement on CU (RB and RF)
Agreement on the CU (RB, RK,RF)
Launching the Customs Union within EurAsEC:
common tariff and non-tariff regulation
В настоящий момент завершено формирование Таможенного союза и заявлено о переходе к следующему этапу интеграционного строительства – Единому экономическому пространству, начало функционирования которого было провозглашено 1 января 2012 года в связи со вступлением в силу пакета международных договоров, формирующих правовую основу ЕЭП. 2

3. Eurasian Economic Union
Key Phases of Eurasian Integration
Stages
Main features
Eurasian Economic Union
Unified macroeconomic, tax, monetary, trade and customs policies
Common Economic Space
Common economic regulation procedures
Common infrastructure
Coordinated tax, monetary and customs policies
Free movement of goods, services, capital and labor force
CES Agreement 16
CES Agreement17 …
CES Agreement
CES Agreement 2
Customs Union
Common customs territory
Common customs code
Common trade regime with third countries
Common customs tariff and non-tariff regulation measures
Abolition of customs clearance of goods in mutual trade and transition of customs control to external boards
Legal acts forming the legal base of the Customs Union in the framework of Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC)
Treaties
Agreements …
CIS Free Trade Area
Non-application of customs duties and economic restrictions in mutual trade (except for trade remedies) - with exemptions 3

4. Eurasian Economic Commission
The Commission is a single permanent regulatory body of the Customs Union (hereinafter the CU) and the Common Economic Space (hereinafter the CES).
The main goal of the Commission is “to provide for the operation and the evolution of the CU and the CES, and to carry out further economic integration initiatives within the framework of the CU and CES” 4

5. The CU Member States CU Member States: Republic of Belarus,
Republic of Kazakhstan ,
Russian Federation
Surface: km²
Population: 173,302 mln.
Total GDP: 2 bln. $ US (4 % of world GDP)
Total volume of external trade: 913 bln. $ US 5

6. Agreements Establishing the Common Economic Space
On Unified Principles and Rules of Technical Regulations of the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation
On Cooperation in Counteracting Illegal Labor Migration from Third Countries
On Legal Status of Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
On Coordinated Macroeconomic Policy
On Coordinated Principles of Currency Policy
On Creation of Conditions at Financial Markets Necessary to Ensure Free Movement of Capital
On Unified Principles and Rules of Competition
On State (Municipal) Procurement 17 6

7. Agreements Establishing the Common Economic Space
On Unified Principles of Regulation in Protecting Intellectual Property Rights
On Unified Rules of State Support for Agriculture
On Unified Rules on Granting Industrial Subsidies
On Trade in Services and Investment in the CES Member States
On Unified Principles and Rules of Regulation of Natural Monopolies
On Access to Rail Transport Including Fundamental Principles of Tariff Policy
On Access to Natural Monopolies in the Power Industry Including Pricing and Tariff Policy
On Administration, Operation and Development of the Common Oil and Oil Products Markets
On Rules of Access to Services of Natural Monopolies in Gas Transportation by the Gas-transport Systems including Fundamental Principles of Tariff Policy 17 7

8. share in the global export in 2010
The CU and the CES
share in the global export in 2010
Необходимо определиться с доменом и наименованием
Варианты
Предпочтительные варианты
Возможность регистрации нового домена 8

9. Growth Rate of Customs Union Economies in 2009-2011
Необходимо определиться с доменом и наименованием
Варианты
Предпочтительные варианты
Возможность регистрации нового домена 9

10. Bodies of the CU and the CES
Supreme Eurasian
Economic Council:
level of Heads of States
- level of Heads of Government
Supreme
Body of the CU and the CES
EurAsEC Court
- defines the strategy and the objectives of further development of the CU and the CES
Dispute settlemnt body
Structural units of the Commission
Eurasian Economic Commission
(the Commission)
The Common permanent regulatory body of the CU and the CES
Council of the Commission:
3 Members of the Council
Departments of the Commissio
- ensures functioning and development of the CU and the CES, carries out the initiatives on further economic integration
Board of the Commission:
Chairperson + 8 Members of the Board
Consulting bodies of the Commission
Missions of the Commission in member countries, in third countries
and at the international organizations
(established by the decision of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Commission)
- ensure the interaction with national authorities 10

11. Council of the Commission
Eurasian Economic Commission
Council of the Commission
three members of the Council
(one Deputy Prime Minister representing each Member State)
Republic of Belarus – Sergei Rumas
Republic of Kazakhstan – Kairat Kelimbetov
Russian Federation – Igor Shuvalov 11

12. Areas of Competence of the Eurasian Economic Commission under the Treaty on the EEC
tariff and non-tariff regulation
customs administration
technical regulation
sanitary, veterinary and phytosanitary measures
enrolment and allocation of import customs duties
establishment of trade regime with third countries
statistics of external and internal trade
macroeconomic policy
competition policy
industrial and agriculture subsidies
energetic policy
natural monopolies
state and municipal purchases
internal trade in services and investment
transport and transportation
currency policy
protection of intellectual property and copyright
migration policy
financial markets (banking, insurance, foreign exchange market, stock
market)
other areas
The EEC performs its activity within the powers provided
by the Treaty on the EEC,
by international agreements forming the legal base of the CU and the CES
and by decisions of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council
Государства-члены ТС и ЕЭП передали Комиссии полномочия национальных органов власти в указанных сферах. Это означает, что разработкой и имплементацией законодательства ТС и ЕЭП, регулирующего указанные сферы, занимается Комиссия. Национальные органы власти могут привлекаться к процессу разработки законодательных актов в установленном порядке (порядок описан ниже). 12

13. Board of the Commission
Eurasian Economic Commission
Board of the Commission
Chairman of the Board
Viktor Khristenko
Tatiana
Valovaya
Member of the Board-Minister in charge of development of integration and macroeconomics
Valery Koreshkov
Member of the Board-Minister in charge of technical regulation
Andrey Slepnev
Member of Board-Minister in charge of trade
Danial Akhmetov
Member of the Board-Minister in charge of energy and infrastructure
Sergey
Sidorsky
Member of the Board-Minister in charge of industry and agriculture
Nurlan Aldabergenov
Member of the Board-Minister in charge of competition
Vladimir Goshin
Member of Board-Minister in charge of customs cooperation
Timur Suleimenov
Member of the Board-Minister in charge of economics and financial policy 13

14. Decision making process within the CU and the CES
The Supreme Council takes decision on the issue
Decisions taken by the CU bodies become the integral part of the legal base of the CU and the CES
Supreme Eurasian Economic Council
5. The issue is submitted to the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council
Council of the Commission
The Council takes decision on issues within its competency
4. The issue is submitted to the Council of the Commission
Board of the Commission
National authorities
The Board takes decision on issues within its competency
3. The issue is submitted to the Board
2. Member States analyze the issue and give their comments
Профильные департаменты разрабатывают предложения по вопросам своей компетенции и передают их на рассмотрение соответствующего консультативного органа Комиссии.
Консультативный орган Комиссии, в состав которого входят представители государств-членов и представители Комиссии, представляют свои замечания по вопросу. После учета замечаний согласованный вопрос передается на рассмотрение Коллегии с проектом соответствующего решения Коллегии.
Если вопрос относится к сфере компетенции Коллегии, она принимает решение по данному вопросу, которое становится частью нормативно-правовой базы ТС. Если вопрос относится к сфере компетенции более высокого органа ТС, то Коллегия одобряет проект решения этого органа и передает вопрос на его рассмотрение.
Consulting bodies of the Commission
1. The departments analyze the initiatives within their competency
Departments of the Commission 14

15. Main directions of the integration process (Declaration on Eurasian economic integration by the Presidents of the CU member countries, December 2011)
Ensuring effective functioning of common market (free movement of goods, services, capital and labor force)
Coordinated industrial, transport, energetic and agriculture policies, development of industrial cooperation including potential creation of joint international corporations
Further convergence of national legislations and their unification in spheres covered by the agreements establishing the CES
Elaboration and realization of coordinated macroeconomic policy, transition to convergence of main macroeconomic indicators of member countries, development of cooperation in monetary field
Intensification of cooperation in the field of economic security
Cooperation in the field of migration policy
Ensuring the compliance of education standards
Comprehensive cooperation in the field of culture, parliamentary and business interaction
Further development of regional and border cooperation, creating effective structures of regional cooperation
Enhancement and development of supranational bodies
Cooperation in the field of foreign policy on questions of mutual interest 15

16. of treaties and agreements achieved the Eurasian Economic Union
Regulatory Legal Framework of the Eurasian Economic Union
Single Codified Document
Legal Base of the EurAsEC
CODIFICATION
of treaties and agreements achieved
(no later than 2015)
TREATY on
the Eurasian Economic Union
Legal Base of the Customs Union
Legal Base of the Common Economic Space
Principles of codification
Необходимо определиться с доменом и наименованием
Варианты
Предпочтительные варианты
Возможность регистрации нового домена
Harmonization of existing legal norms
Systematization of existing legal norms
Elimination of inconsistencies and contradictions of legal norms
Filling gaps and repealing obsolete norms
Compliance with the WTO Agreement 16

17. The CU and the WTO membership
Declaration on the Eurasian economic integration by the three Presidents (December 2011):
«In their practical cooperation member countries of the CES are guided by norms and rules of the WTO and confirm the importance of the accession of all three states to the Organization»
The Russian Federation becomes a member of the WTO since July of 2012
Treaty on the Functioning of the CU in the Framework of Multilateral Trade System of 19 May of 2011 enters into force
July – … 17

18. The Treaty on the Functioning of the CU in the Framework of the Multilateral Trading System
Article 1.
1.1. Since the date of accession of any CU Party to the WTO, the provisions of the WTO Agreement, as set-out in its Protocol of Accession, including the commitments undertaken by that CU Party as part of the terms of its accession to the WTO, which related to matters that the Parties had authorised CU Bodies to regulate in the framework of the CU, as well as to the legal relationships regulated by the international treaties constituting the legal framework of the CU, became an integral part of the legal framework of the CU.
1.3. Upon the subsequent accession of another Party to the WTO, the commitments undertaken by that Party as part of the terms of its accession to the WTO, which relate to matters that the Parties have authorized Customs Union Bodies to regulate in the framework of the Customs Union, as well as the legal relationships, regulated by the international treaties, constituting the legal framework of the Customs Union, shall also become a part of the legal framework of the Customs Union. The Party acceding to the WTO shall notify other Parties and coordinate with them actions in respect of undertaking the commitments as a term of its accession, which require amendment to the legal framework of the Customs Union. 18

19. The Treaty on the Functioning of the CU in the Framework of the Multilateral Trading System
1.4. In case of divergence between the consolidated results of import tariff negotiations, achieved in the course of the accession to the WTO, the Parties concerned shall consult each other immediately and enter into negotiations with interested WTO Members expeditiously with a view to harmonize import tariffs rates. The Parties shall coordinate their positions and express the intention to follow the respective provisions of the WTO Agreement, that are applied in case of tariff harmonization by the customs unions. The rates of the Common Customs Tariff of the Customs Union shall not exceed the import tariff rates agreed as a result of harmonization unless otherwise is provided for in the WTO Agreement.
Article 2.
2.1. CU Parties shall adopt measures to adjust the CU legal framework and decisions of CU Bodies to comply with the WTO Agreement as set-out in the Protocol of Accession of each Party. Until those measures were adopted... the WTO Agreement would always prevail over respective provisions of treaties concluded within the framework of the CU and of decisions adopted by its Bodies. 19

20. The official site of the CU and the CES: www.tsouz.ru
For information:
The official site of the CU and the CES:
Commission headquarters: 3/5 building 1, Smolensky boulevard , Moscow, , Russian Federation 20