EAEU expands unified labeling regulations to include caviar, bicycles, lubricants and antiseptics

MINSK. July 8 (Interfax) - The board of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) has discussed proposals by Russia and taken the decision to apply unified digital labeling rules to a range of new goods categories, the EEC's press service reported on Tuesday.

"This refers in particular to red and black caviar, bicycles and bicycle frames, certain types of lubricant and special vehicle fluids, cosmetics with an anti-microbial effect and disinfectants," the EEC said in the statement.

"This increase in the number of labeled goods testifies to the development of the EAEU's united labeling system, which allows consumers to be sure of products' authenticity and honest market participants to become more competitive thanks to a decline in illegal trade," EEC Commissioner for Trade Andrei Slepnev is quoted in the statement as saying.

He said that the new goods categories would be labeled according to unified rules, as before, and also taking into account the provisions of the basic technological and organizational model of identification labels for EAEU goods approved by the EEC board in 2019. Slepnev said that it would thus be possible for codes to be mutually recognized, so that goods do not need to be relabeled as they are traded between EAEU countries.