Good news for European manufacturers and traders in general. Now companies that have their products marked EAC can also export them to Kyrgyzstan and Armenia. On 01/01/2015 an international Treaty went into effect. The Treaty was signed in Astana on 29/05/2014 by the founding countries: Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, which established the Eurasian Economic Union, later joined by Armenia (01/02/2015) and

From 15 March 2015, the customs authorities of the Member States of the Customs Union (Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan) will accept only the certificate or declaration of conformity to the Technical Regulations of the Customs Union for products covered by the EU directives listed below.
It should be noted that the scope and the technical requirements of the EU directives and the respective Technical Regulations of the Customs Union may not coincide.

August 7th, 2014, Russia imposed a complete ban on the supply of beef, pork, fruits and vegetables, ie, fruits and vegetables, meat, poultry, fish, cheese, milk and dairy products from the EU, the United States, Australia, Canada and Norway.
Sanctions imposed by the Russian Federation in response to the actions of the West, do not touch the baby food and goods for personal use.  

The conference "Made in Italy and exports to Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan: how the Gost certification turned into the EAC certification" will be held on May 7, 2014 at the fair "TPA ITALY 2014 in Milan Rho". The event is sponsored by ASSOFLUID and FEDERMACCHINE. The presentations will be made by the head of the department of technical regulation and conformity assessment of the All-Russian Scientific and Research Institute for Certification of Gosstandard as well as by the responsible for the GOST certification in Italy at Rustandard Ltd.