The EEC Council has approved a
list of services and digital infrastructure, the implementation of which is
required to form and launch the ecosystem of digital transport corridors (EDTC)
in the Eurasian "five" countries. The ecosystem is scheduled to be formed
by 2025.
"The EAEU ecosystem of
digital transport corridors is designed to help business partners to exchange
logistics information across the entire supply chain in an efficient secure
environment as well as to ensure legally binding electronic interaction with authorized
bodies within countries and on a worldwide basis", said Gegham Vardanyan,
Member of the Board – EEC Minister in charge of Internal Markets, Information
Support, Information and Communication Technologies.
The document approved by the
EEC Council includes priority services the EAEU Member States have expressed
interest in.
For instance, this entails a
digital map and database of major highways and infrastructure facilities of
international transport corridors running through the Member States territories.
This service enables obtaining official, reliable and promptly updated
cartographic information.
The list also includes a
service for booking motorway infrastructure facilities as well as queues at a
road checkpoint, a service for remote medical examination of motor vehicle
drivers, including prevention and control of the COVID-19 coronavirus
infection, and a service for using an electronic international waybill for
railway and road transport. The service for using an electronic waybill and an
electronic protocol for weight and dimensional control was approved.
Therefore, the EAEU continues
implementing a time-phased action plan for forming the ecosystem of digital
transport corridors. It was approved by the Disposition of the Eurasian
Intergovernmental Council dated January 31, 2020.
The
ecosystem of digital transport corridors is an open digital environment for
exchanging logistics information that includes a large number of digital
platforms and information systems owned by both operators and (or) business and
public authorities. The ecosystem integrates information about transport
organizations, crew, cargo, permits, and accompanying documents at all stages
of transportation, as well as process operations.
The project is aimed at refusing paper support for
transport and logistics operations and absolute switching to data exchange,
creating common standards for transport and logistics services as well as
switching to an end-to-end integrated surveillance system based on data analysis,
which removes much of the administrative burden from carriers.
The project is expected to be implemented in stages.
This includes preparing a regulatory framework, implementing pilot projects,
the technical design of national and supranational segments, drafting standards
and modernizing existing information systems.
It is planned to organize the maximum use of
already-existing commercial and government platforms or commercial and
government platforms that are being developed, within the EDTC. These include
systems of the Union’s customs authorities, state platforms of the EAEU
countries’ transport complexes, systems for charging fees for the use of
transport infrastructure facilities, commercial logistics platforms and
forwarding services, automated systems of carriers and services of logistics
centers, financial and insurance services. At the same time, it is planned that
the list will be updated with new services on a periodic basis.