The sixth annual Conference on Antitrust Regulation in Russia will take place in Moscow on October 10, 2014
The conference will gather together members of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches as well as lawyers and economists to ensure that antitrust policy keeps pace with international standards. The conference will analyze how the FAS facilitates the effective functioning of commodity markets as well as the prevention, control, and suppression of monopolistic activity and unfair competition. Among the speakers will be the head of FAS Russia as well as leading lawyers and economists who specialize in competition law.
The Conference supposes to focus on several key aspects of antimonopoly policy such as:
- The milestone of 2014 and its influence on antimonopoly regulations
- The current antimonopoly policy
- The antimonopoly policy on telecommunication market
- Rules of non-discrimination access and trade policies
- Antimonopoly regulations in Fuel and Energy Complex and Electrical energy
- The ban on dominate position: terms of implementation and application problems
- Economic analysis in antimonopoly cases
- Antimonopoly regulation of distribution in Russia
- The area of antritrust legislation implementation
During the discussion, the experts will discuss the possible economic effects of antitrust regulation on various business sectors. The participants will attempt to find a compromise among the interests of regulators, businesses, and customers. The session will consider such topics as the possible extent of government intervention in the trade practices of companies, rules of nondiscriminatory access as mechanisms to prevent the abuse of a dominant position, and the risks of employing a broad trade policy and nondiscriminatory access rules.
The noncommercial partnership “Promoting Competition” is a platform for the formation of a consolidated position in the business community and the state for promoting competition and for the improvement of antimonopoly policy. It collaborates with FAS Russia and the legal community in several areas: drafting effective antimonopoly legislation, in cooperation with antimonopoly bodies; developing and supporting effective state policy regarding competition; facilitating a constructive dialog between business and antimonopoly bodies; as well as cooperating in the area of competition with the European Commission, the International Competition Network (ICN), and government bodies related to competition law in the USA, EU, and other countries.
Details about the conference, including an English-language version of the program, are at: http://www.vedomosti.ru/events/anti14/
The contact person is Yaroslav Kulick, partner and head of Competition regulations practice of ART DE LEX Law Firm