Zhanar Adikova, Director of the Department of Competition Policy and Public Procurement Policy of the Eurasian Economic Commission, spoke about the regulation of procurement in the Eurasian Economic Union on March 15 at a meeting of representatives of the EEC competition bloc with representatives of the Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China.
Mutual interest in public procurement procedures has been repeatedly emphasized during meetings of the Joint Commission on the Implementation of the Agreement on Trade and Economic Cooperation between the EAEU and the People’s Republic of China.
Zhanar Adikova stressed that the main objectives of regulating public procurement in the EAEU are to ensure unhindered access of suppliers of the Union states to each other’s purchases, providing national treatment to participants in “guest” purchases, as well as ensuring information openness and transparency of the procurement process.
“Regulation of public procurement in the EAEU is carried out at the regional and national levels. The Commission has the competence to monitor the national legislation on procurement and compliance with the law of the EAEU,” Zhanar Adikova said.
Deputy Director of the Department Armine Hakobyan stressed the high interest of Chinese colleagues in cooperation, their willingness to share experience and discuss topical issues in the field of public procurement. She also noted the existence of issues of interest to national government agencies in this area, and said that their representatives would be invited to follow-up meetings with Chinese colleagues.
Representatives of the Chinese department were particularly interested in the obligations of the member states provided for by the law of the EAEU to provide a national regime in the field of public procurement and the availability of opportunities to introduce exemptions from it.
For their part, experts from the Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China presented the basics of the legal system of public procurement in China and spoke in detail about the use of an advanced electronic procurement system.
Following the meeting, the parties noted the importance of deepening cooperation between the EAEU and China and agreed to continue the dialogue.
Source: EEC website
