OREANDA-NEWS. June 22, 2012. According to the press service of the Ministry of Economy, the agenda of the 54th sitting of the Economic Council of CIS held on June, 21 includes 17 points among which there are the following draft documents: The CIS Cooperation Strategy in building and developing information society and the Plan of Action on its implementation for 2012-2015; the Agreement on Intergovernmental Technical Regulations; the Plan of Action on Implementation of Intergovernmental Program of Innovative Cooperation for up to 2020; the Protocol on amendments to the Agreement on Rules of Identification of the Goods Origin Country in CIS dated on November, 20, 2009.

Participants of the sitting will review the results of implementing the Plan of Action for the first stage (2009-2011) of the Strategy of Economic Development of CIS for up to 2020, discuss the work of the Intergovernmental Council on Exhibitions, Fairs and Congresses of CIS and competition in the market of food retail in CIS distributing facilities, and hear the information on progress of the work on gradual elimination of restrictions in mutual trade of CIS states.

On June, 22 and 23 Valeriu Lazar is taking part in the Economic Forum held in St.-Petersburg where matters of energy and industrialization in developing markets will be discussed. Participants of the Forum will focus on after-crisis scenarios in EU, markets with high rates of economic growth and matters on new centres of global capital.