Ulf Schneider
Managing Partner, SCHNEIDER GROUP
Paris, June 20, 2019
Eurasian Economic Union &
Initiative Lisbon-Vladivostok
EEU
IT Know-how Natural
Ressources
EU & EAEU – Integration for Growth
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EU
Industry Technology
Common Economic Space?
1986 Today
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EU & EAEU integration
1951 • Treaty of Paris (ECSC)
1957 • Treaty of Rome (EEC)
1986 • Internal Market
1992
• Maastricht Treaty (EU):
• Common Foreign and Security Policy
• Cooperation in the Fields of Justice and Home Affairs
2007 • Lisbon Treaty
2010
• Customs Union: Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia
2011
• Free Trade Zone of CIS: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine
2015
• Eurasian Economic Union: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia
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EAEU Institutions
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Supreme Economic Council
Heads of States Intergovernmental
Council
Prime ministers
Economic Commission
Court
Differences from the EU
Primacy of
nation state
Leadership of national
governments
Member states‘ veto
No face to public
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Eurasian Economic Commission
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Economy & Financial Policy Timur Zhaksylykov, KAZ
Trade Veronika Nikishina, RUS
Customs Cooperation Kadyrkulov Mukai Asanovich, KYR
Competition & Antitrust Regulation Marat Kussainov , KAZ
Industry & Agriculture Alexander Subbotin, BEL
Technical Regulation Victor Nazarenko, BEL
Energy & Infrastructure Emil Abdykalyevich Kaikiev, KYR
International Markets Karine Minasyan, ARM
Chairman of the Board Tigran Sargsyan, ARM
Integration & Macroeconomics Tatyana Valovaya, RUS
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2025 (planned) Today
EAEU: Further integration
Four Freedoms (since 2015)
movement of goods
services
capital
labor
New Customs Code (since January 2018)
Common pharmaceutical market (formally since May 2018)
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Common financial market
Common transport market
Common energy market
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2016
• Vietnam: Preferential Trade Agreement
2018 • Iran:
Interim Trade Agreement (3 y.)
2018
• China: Non-Preferential Trade Agreement
2018 • ASEAN: MoU
2019
• Serbia: Partial FTA
Ongoing negotiations with:
Jordan
Moldova
Cuba
Thailand
Indonesia
Bangladesh
Singapore
Israel
Chile
Peru
Mongolia
Singapore
Greece
Cambodia
Morocco
India
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EAEU: Trade Agreements
Memorandum Lisbon-Vladivostok
«We ask the political actors in all countries of the EU and the EEU to give the European Commission and the Eurasian Economic Commission respectively the mandate to start an official dialogue on the harmonization of regulations.»
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EU-EAEU Free Trade Agreement
Export EU → Ex-UdSSR: + 63 %
Export Russland → EU: + 32 %
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Selection of Members: Associations
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Selection of Members: Companies
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Task Forces
Visa Regimes
Technical Regulations
Logistics
More to come
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Yet to Join: French Businesses
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St. Petersburg
Economic Forum
2018
Treffen Sarkissian
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Meeting with the
President of Armenia,
Armen Sarkissjan
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Schneider Electric
signs Memorandum of
the Initiative
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Working Group
session at plenary hall
of Eurasian Economic
Commission
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Ulf Schneider
Managing Partner
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