The 7th meeting of the Committee for Cooperation of the Republic of Kazakhstan - European Union in trade configuration was held

On April 9, 2024, in Brussels the 7th meeting of the RK-EU Cooperation Committee in a trade configuration chaired by the Vice-Minister of Trade and Integration of the RK Kairat Torebaev and Acting Director of Directorate E in the European Commission's Directorate-General for Trade and Chief Advisor to the Director-General, Management with Southern Neighbors, the Middle East, Turkey, Russia and Central Asia Leon Delvaux.

Speakers from government bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the EU were connected online; representatives of the Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Agriculture, JSC CRTP QazTrade and JSC Kazstandard took part from the Republic of Kazakhstan.

At the 7th meeting of the Committee, a wide range of issues were discussed: trade and investment developments and trends; implementation of the trade section of the EPCA; implementation of the Ready4Trade Central Asia project; sanitary and phytosanitary measures, including expanding the range of Kazakhstani goods supplied to the EU market; list of export enterprises; recognition of disease regionalization measures in the EU; questions from the High-Level Mission of the Commissioner for Agriculture Wojciechowski.

The importance of interaction in the field of technical regulation, standardization, and metrology was noted.

Moreover, following the results of the 7th meeting, an agreement was reached on the arbitrators in accordance with Article 196 of the EPCA.