The EEC and the Government of the Hellenic Republic signed a Joint Declaration on Cooperation
The Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) and the Government of the Hellenic Republic signed the Joint Declaration on Cooperation in Moscow on 24 June 2017.
On behalf of the EEC, the document was signed by the Member of the Board — Minister in charge of Integration and Macroeconomics, Tatyana Valovaya. On behalf of the Greek Government it was signed by the Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs, Georgios Katrougalos.
The Joint Declaration became the first document institutionalizing the cooperation between the EEC and the government of a EU member state. The document was elaborated after the negotiations between the EEC Chairman, Tigran Sargsyan, and the Greek Government held in January 2017.
The Declaration provides for cooperation on a broad economic agenda, taking into account the competences of the EEC and the obligations of Greece arising from the law of the European Union. In particular, the EEC and the Government of the Hellenic Republic intend to exchange experience and information in such areas as technical regulation, application of sanitary, veterinary & sanitary, and quarantine phytosanitary measures, public procurement, financial markets, intellectual property, trade policy, competition policy and antitrust regulation, etc.
The Declaration aims at increasing trade turnover between the Member States of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and Greece.
The Declaration assumes holding consultations, conferences, forums, seminars, round tables, fairs, exhibitions and other events involving representatives of business communities. The ultimate goal of this cooperation is promotion of the development of mutually beneficial economic relations between the states, as well as direct contacts between representatives of the business communities. The first step on the road of practical cooperation between the EEC and the Government of Greece within the framework of the Joint Declaration could be holding of the Greece-EAEU Business Forum in the framework of the annual exhibition in Thessaloniki in September 2017.
In accordance with the Joint Declaration, the EEC and the Greek Government will contribute to the establishment of the Greece-Eurasian Council, a permanent platform for the dialogue of business stakeholders, the EEC and authorities of the EAEU Member States and Greece.
Press-release at the official Eurasian Economic Commission web-site