During his visit to Kyrgyzstan, EEC Minister for Technical Regulation Aleksandr Subbotin held sectoral meetings with ministries and agencies responsible for technical regulation and SPS measures. Source: Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC).
With Deputy Health Minister and Chief State Sanitary Doctor Gulbara Ishenapysova he discussed sanitary and epidemiological wellbeing, food security across the EAEU — including Kyrgyzstan — and amendments to Union technical regulations, primarily food-related ones. They also covered control and oversight against unsafe products and the value of sharing practice among member states.
Special attention went to launching a common process to create, maintain and use a single register of product state-registration certificates; the Kyrgyz side confirmed readiness for interstate testing. The minister also reviewed the testing facilities of the Department of Disease Prevention and State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance.
With the Ministry of Water Resources, Agriculture and Processing Industry and its subordinate services, the parties reviewed veterinary requirements and quarantine phytosanitary measures in Kyrgyzstan, as well as the country’s participation in common processes for timely exchange of data and enforcement measures after inspections.
The visit closed in Bishkek with Deputy Economy and Commerce Minister Sultan Akhmatov on technical-regulation issues: progress on the Union technical-regulations development plan and amendments, timelines for entry into force, and building an evidence base for implementation. Both sides stressed that industry readiness must be considered when new safety rules take effect, to avoid artificial trade barriers on the EAEU internal market.
Subbotin also toured Kyrgyzstan’s testing and metrology infrastructure at the Centre for Standardization and Metrology under the Economy Ministry. The meetings, participants said, help refine EAEU law on technical regulation, SPS measures and the circulation of medical devices and medicines in line with Union goals and national interests.