Lukyanova V.Y. Legal Status of Eurasian Economic Commission

Abstract: The article is devoted to the change of the legal status of the Eurasian Economic Commission (hereinafter – EEC) in connection with the entry into force of the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union. After analyzing of modern legal science approaches to the study of the legal status of collective subjects, the author came to the conclusion about the need to explore of its three elements: the target, the structure and organization and competency. According to this logic, the article explores the purpose of functioning of the Eurasian Economic Commission, its structure, functions and powers established by the Regulation on the Eurasian Economic Commission and other rules of the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union of May 29, 2014. In the study of the EEC structure the main attention is focused on the characterization of the legal status of international officials, which have members of the EEC Board, as well as officers and employees of its departments, to ensure the supranational nature of the activities of EEC and its independence. In the framework of the research of competency component of the legal status of EEC, author identified and analyzed several categories of the Commission's functions and powers. Its powers to ensure the performance of international agreements of the Eurasian Economic Union and other international legal instruments which formed the Union law, the authority to ensure the activity of Union and its administration bodies, as well as the authority to make regulations. A lot of attention is paid to the learning of normative functions change of EEC in connection with the entry into force of the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union. Types of acts, adopted by the Eurasian Economic Commission, as well as the provisions of the constitutions of states – members of the Eurasian Economic Union, establishing the principles of normative legal acts duration which form the role and place of the legally binding EEC decisions in the national legal system are investigated. Suggestions and recommendations aimed at enhancing of the efficiency of EEC conferred powers, based on the analysis of existing international legal and domestic regulatory and legal framework are given.

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