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During a working visit to St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region on February 18-19, Artak Kamalyan, Member of the Board — Minister in charge of Industry and Agriculture of the Eurasian Economic Commission, visited the production sites of Kominvest-AKMT JSC and Petersburg Tractor Plant JSC.

This initiative was announced by attendees of the second meeting of the Presidium of the Scientific and Technical Council under the Chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission’s Board held on February 17 at the EEC’s headquarters.

The Eurasian Economic Commission has partnered the World Construction Championship the final of which is scheduled on April 20-23 in Sochi.

Artak Kamalyan, Member of the Board – Minister in charge of Industry and Agriculture of the Eurasian Economic Commission, held a meeting with Bakhyt Sultanov, Minister of Trade and Integration of Kazakhstan. The dialogue participants have stressed the importance of crash implementation of activities on the five principal directions of the Eurasian Economic Union development outlined by Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in his address to the Heads of the EAEU States on January 15 this year. The parties have noted that all participants in the integration process should focus on such long-term priorities as maintaining the stability of economic and social systems, improving social welfare, ensuring the progress of each Member State and the EAEU as a whole.

It bears reminding that some issues of the Union’s medicine safety amid the coronavirus pandemic were addressed at the meeting of the Heads of the EAEU States held in April last year, when discussing the current situation in the manufacturing industry. The meeting attendees then noted the importance and timeliness of this plan development. The Commission was given a corresponding instruction.

At the 29th International Jewelry Exhibition JUNWEX in St. Petersburg, the Eurasian Economic Commission held a round table on: "Prospects for implementing Agreement in the jewelry sector within the EAEU. Creating the Eurasian Jewelry Export Bureau. Developing electronic trade in jewelry"​.

On February 5, the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council approved a Procedure for coordinating and providing analytical support for selection and breeding activities in the field of livestock breeding performed in the Eurasian Economic Union States.​

The EEC, jointly with the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union, is preparing a list of cooperation projects for their possible financing by the Eurasian Development Bank. This and some other measures to support the EAEU's industrial projects were discussed in the Commission at a meeting chaired by Nikolay Kushnarev, Director of the EEC Industrial Policy Department.

On December 22, the Eurasian Economic Commission’s Board approved the recommendation "On uniform approaches to classifying farm animals and their products (material) as pedigree stock".

Cooperation between the EEC and the EDB in the industrial sector was discussed at a meeting at the EEC’s headquarters by Artak Kamalyan, Member of the Board – Minister in charge of Industry and Agriculture of the Eurasian Economic Commission, and Nikolay Podguzov, Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Development Bank. In particular, they have considered projects in the field of import substitution, financing the Eurasian interstate programs and applying measures to support manufacturing facilities in the Eurasian Economic Union.