EEC experts are studying the integration potential in the Eurasian Union
On October 31, 2016 Almaty hosted a session of the expert group of the Eurasian Economic Commission on the use of state and interstate input-output tables to outline and assess the integration potential in the Eurasian Economic Union.
The session was chaired by the Deputy Director of the Macroeconomic Policy Department of the EEC, Galina Islamova. It was attended by members of the expert group and invited experts: representatives of national statistical offices, ministries of the economic bloc, national customs services of the States of the Union, as well as structural subdivisions of the Commission.
The session participants reviewed an overview of the construction industry in the Member States of the EAEU, which was prepared based on state input-output tables, and proposals for the industry’s development by taking advantage of the integration potential of the Union. There was also discussion of the conceptual approaches to disaggregation of economic activities with a view to improving the detail of the nomenclature of the interstate input-output tables and the draft application for the implementation of scientific-research work on the development of interstate input-output tables to outline and assess the integration potential of the EAEU.
The session participants approved the action plan of the expert group for 2017. The next session will be held in the first half of 2017.
The decision to establish the expert group on the use of state and interstate input-output tables to outline and assess the integration potential of the Eurasian Economic Union was adopted at the session of the Advisory Committee on Statistics of the Eurasian Economic Commission (Minutes No. 2-KK of the session of the Advisory Committee on Statistics dated April 2, 2015). It is composed of representatives of the public authorities of the Union States and the Commission.
Press-release at the official Eurasian Economic Commission web-site