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Mikhail Myasnikovich, Chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission's Board, held a series of bilateral meetings within his working visit to Belarus, including with Igor Petrishenko, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus, Sergei Nalivaiko, Minister for Taxes and Duties of the Republic of Belarus, and Yuri Senko, Chairman of the State Customs Committee of the Republic of Belarus.

Mikhail Myasnikovich, Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission, congratulated Alexander Lukashenko, President of the Republic of Belarus, on Independence Day.

The first meeting of the Expert Committee for Medicinal Products at the Eurasian Economic Commission, chaired by Viktor Nazarenko, EEC Minister in charge of Technical Regulation, has considered mechanisms for resolving disputes arising during the registration of pharmaceuticals. Discrepancies in the benefit-risk assessment in expert reports of the reference State and the recognizing States for two master files have been discussed.

The Council of Heads of Authorized Bodies in the Field of Sanitary and Epidemiological Welfare of the Union has considered prospects for resuming international transportation in the EAEU countries as well as anti-epidemic aspects of preparations for the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council's meeting in Minsk.

Following the meeting of the EEC Board held on June 30, it was decided to notify Russia of the need to enforce the Eurasian Economic Union's law. The Board qualifies the Rosselkhoznadzor's actions on prohibiting the supply of beef manufactured by some Belarusian enterprises to Russia and its movement through the country’s territory to the Union Member States as a barrier in the EAEU internal market.

The meeting of the Eurasian Economic Commission’s Board held on June 30 adopted a disposition on forming a working group to draft proposals for establishing the Eurasian Economic Union Development and Support Institution. The working group will be headed by Sergei Glazyev, EEC Minister in charge of Integration and Macroeconomics.

A working meeting between Mikhail Myasnikovich, Chairman of the EEC Board, Serik Zhumangarin and Gegham Vardanyan, Members of the Commission's Board – Ministers, and Denis Manturov, Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, was held via videoconferencing at the initiative of the Eurasian Economic Commission.

On June 26, Moscow hosted a breakfast on behalf of Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, dedicated to the 75th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

On 26 June this year the Eurasian Economic Union countries ended the transition period for enacting amendments made to the Union's Technical Regulation "Marking of food products" concerning GMO marking of food products manufactured using genetically modified organisms. The amendments were adopted by the Decision of the Commission’s Council No. 90 dated December 20, 2017 and came into force on December 26, 2018.

Prospects for protecting the internal market from unsafe goods with regard to improving accreditation in the field of conformity assessment in the Eurasian Economic Union were considered at the fourth meeting of the Council of Heads of accreditation bodies of the EAEU States attended by Viktor Nazarenko, Minister in charge of Technical Regulation of the Eurasian Economic Commission.