On 1 May 2022 Belarus will reduce export duties on oil and oil products, which are exported outside the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) in line with the Council of Ministers' resolution No.263 of 28 April 2022, BelTA learned from the national legal internet portal. In line with the resolution the size of the export duty on crude oil, furnace oil, oil bitumen, petrolatum, paraffin, and waste oils will be $49.6 per tonne ($61.2 previously). The export duty on...

Belarus and Russia have come to terms on starting the testing of a platform designed to search for technical information, BelTA learned from Head of Russia's Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent) Yuri Zubov. Yuri Zubov said: “In the age of digitization and growing volumes of data we see huge prospects in enabling new information exchange. Rospatent has created 15 brand new information systems. We are convinced they will work for the benefit of our bilateral...

The laws in furtherance of the Constitution should be written together with the people, Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus Vladimir Andreichenko said at a meeting of the eighth session of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the seventh convocation on 27 April, BelTA has learned. “The head of state has set a task to immediately embark on the work to bring the current legislation in line with the Constitution. Just a few...

Work to deter and prevent unjustified increases in prices will continue, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade Ministry. According to the source, Belarusian Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade Minister Aleksei Bogdanov went to Brest Oblast on a business trip. He heard out complaints and petitions from citizens in the Ivatsevichi District Executive Committee and then visited OAO Ivatsevichdrev and OAO Bereza Meat Canning Plant. Among...

Belarusian agricultural workers have planted early spring cereals and leguminous crops on 82.7% of the planned area, BelTA learned from the Agriculture and Food Ministry. As of 25 April, early spring crops (excluding corn, buckwheat and millet) were planted on the area of 533,100 hectares. Planting was done on 67.4% of the designated area in Vitebsk Oblast, 93.2% of the area in Minsk Oblast, 33.3% of the area in Mogilev Oblast. The planting in Brest Oblast, Grodno Oblast and Gomel...