Azerbaijan to submit report on e-commerce to European Commission

By Azernews

By Amina Nazarli

Azerbaijan has prepared a report on current state of markets of electronic commerce (e-commerce) and electronic logistics (e-logistics) as part of the "Harmonizing Digital Markets of EU and Eastern Partnership Countries – HDM Initiative".

Tofig Babayev, Director of the Regional Information Technologies Academy (RITA) told Trend that the report reflects all aspects related to the digitization of e-commerce and e-logistics procedures.

Meanwhile, legal and legislative aspects were studied in this area, added Babayev.

"The prepared proposals will be presented to the European Commission this month, and a ministerial meeting will be held in Brussels in September, where decisions will be made to allocate funds for the development of software solutions for automating the processes associated with e-commerce and e-logistics," said RITA director.

Earlier, Babayev said that representatives of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies, as well as the State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan were involved in the research conducted in Azerbaijan.

Recommendations were prepared for the implementation of short-term, medium-term and long-term projects. Particularly, the Viking project can be noted. This is a transport corridor from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, with the possibility of further expansion to the Caspian Sea and further.