The member states of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) plan to strengthen the development of a single market for medical devices. This was announced by Bakytzhan Sagintaev, Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), at the meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council (EIC) of the EAEU.

According to Sagintaev, the matter of “development of a single [EAEU] market for medical devices” will be discussed during this meeting.

“You have also been presented with reports on monitoring the practice of customs declaration of goods, the state of competition in transport and cross-border markets, digitalization in freight and rail transportation, the formation of shared [EAEU] energy markets, accounting and distribution of import customs duties, the situation in the single labor market, and cooperation on the climate agenda,” said the chairman of the board of the EEC, the executive body of the EAEU.

Also, Sagintaev assured that all matters of the expanded part of the EIC meeting “have been prepared in accordance with the established procedure and approved at the sessions of the board and the council.”

In addition to representatives of the EAEU member states, including Armenia, delegations from Iran, Cuba, and Uzbekistan are attending the EIC meeting in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan.