Agreement on labeling of goods by means of identification in Eurasian Economic Union signed on February 2, 2018 in Alma-Ata (Republic of Kazakhstan) at the meeting Eurasian Intergovernmental Council. The developer of the document was The Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) to increase the intensity of the fight against shadow turnover of goods and wider application of the labeling system.

The Agreement defines the general rules for the operation of the goods labeling system by means of identification within the framework of Union and establishes the following basic approaches:means of identification (identification marks) should be easily read by scanners and be compatible for the readers of the Member States of the Union, information systems of the marking of the Member States of the Union should interact with each other through the integrated information system of the Union and the mandatory stages should be definedtransfer of information about the product to the labeling information system.

The agreement provides for the distribution between The EEC and the states of the EAEU have the authority to form a common system of labeling goods within the Union. 

President of the SOYUZLEGPROm, member of thePublic Chamber of the Russian Federation Andrey Razbrodin, comments on this agreement: "The initiator of these measures, including at the interstate level, is the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia. At the same time, Soyuzlegprom and other industry associations, let me remind you, have been making similar proposals for more than one year based on a detailed analysis of the situation on the consumer market, including studies of the proportions of legal and counterfeit products on the market.

It is very important that these measures are supported by the Eurasian Economic Commission, since within the framework of the common customs and economic space, coordinated measures in this area are required by all EAEU member states. Otherwise, counterfeit and its derivatives will continue to "flow" between the countries of the Eurasian Union. In the end, labeling in the foreseeable future will certainly spur the growth of production of legal domestic products, which will speed up the replacement of counterfeit, etc. products and, in parallel, identify channels-schemes for the receipt of such products to the markets of the EAEU countries.

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