ArmInfo. Memorandum project on cooperation between the competent bodies of SCTO and EEC was discussed during the 20th meeting. From the Eurasian Economic Commission, the head of the secretariat of the member of the Board (Minister) for Economic and Financial Policy of the EEC, Askar Kishkembayev, as well as the staff of the Department of Labor Migration and Social Protection of the EEC participated in the event.
The memorandum creates basis for cooperation between EEC and CSTO state-members in the sector of support to legal labor migration to EEU and the security of common market of labor from illegal work force from third countries.
The document supposes exchange of information-analytic materials, normative legal acts, participation in joint activities. Within the framework of the memorandum the coordination of common approaches and principles is planned.
The Secretariat of CSTO informed the participants that the memorandum approved during the meeting of Consultative Committee on Migration Policy by EEC was approved in accordance with the offers of competent departments of the CSTO state-members and is directed to the states for implementing intra state procedures aimed at its further signing.
The participants of the meeting discussed the immigration situation in CSTO state-members and made decision that the annually held in the OSCE format for operational and preventive measures to counter illegal migration under the conventional name "Illegal", will be assigned the status of a permanent regional operation of the CSTO.
The Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) is the permanent regulatory body of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). It started work on February 2, 2012. The main purpose of the Eurasian Economic Commission is ensuring the functioning and development of the EEU, and developing proposals for the further development of integration. Currently there are five EEC countries: The Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and the Russian Federation. The EEC has supranational regulatory body status and its activity is guided by the interests of the participating countries of the Eurasian Economic integration project in general, not motivating its decisions by any interests of national Governments. Decisions of the Commission are obligatory for execution on the territory of the EEU Member States.