Authors
Sushkevich A. G.
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Degree
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PhD (Economics), Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service |
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E-mail
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susha@fas.gov.ru |
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Articles
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New Russian federal law "On protection of competition"The new Russian Federal Law "On Protection of Competition" is aimed at making business rela¬tions between the state bodies, businesses and consumers absolutely transparent. The principle upon which the competitors' legal relations system is built is changing radically. The law stipulates that strict measures should be taken against market monopolists and group domineering, there are restrictions in regard to the state officials' competitive rights. The provisions which concern the exterritorial use of the antimonopoly legislation are made more coherent.
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Над новым законом мы работали почти три года (интервью)Новый закон о защите конкуренции с нетерпением ждали все, но больше всего разработчик доку мен та — Федеральная антимонопольная служба России, для которой работа над законом стала беспрецедентной и по времени, и по масштабам. Competition protection legislation and the foreign legal entities and individualsThe phenomena that are now known as the financial and commodity market globalization include not only the cross-border capital and goods flow formation which is one of the most important fac¬tors influencing the situation on the domestic and global markets. The phenomena also include the activities which to some extent hamper such flows' movement. By the activities we mean the competition hampering activities taken by a foreign state (organizations or individuals) outside the domestic market of a certain country and outside the jurisdiction of its executive bodies. We shall hereinafter refer to the activities as the internal competition hampering by the foreign businesses. The authors here analyze the Russian and foreign legal theory and practice in the field. The article will be of interest for the top and middle managers, external economic activities experts, and legal practitioners. The members of the public will also find it interesting.
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Innovations in antimonopoly regulationsThe necessity for the adoption of the so-called second antimonopoly statute — a set of measures and amendments in the legislation — is predetermined by the present day situation in Russia characterized by governmental abuse of market power, tough anticompetitive acts of market participants. Such law¬breakers should be criminally prosecuted. One of the main ideas of the second antimonopoly statute is the new version of Article 178 of the Criminal Code of the RF which states criminal responsibility for the gravest violations of the antimonopoly legislation. The amendments that make up the second antimonopoly statute are aimed at making legal anticompetitive measures more up-to-date, suitable for the existing economic activity and maintaining favourable competitive environment in the country. Aleksey Gennadievich Sushkevich, Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, spoke for the journal on innovations in antimonopoly regulations. Read more...Round-table discussion «The competition — a controversial ideal»
This publication is a detailed report of the round table discussion «Competition — a controversial ideal» organized by the Higher School of Economics and the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation in December 20, 2010. The round table were made by experts in the field of social and moral philosophy, economic sociol¬ogy, law and economics of industrial markets. At the round table were discussed various aspects of understanding the nature and content of the phenomenon of competition, its justification as a social phenomenon, and other issues of an interdisciplinary theory of competition. Read more...Using Sociological Methods to Access the Impact of the Public Policy (A Case of the Merger Notification)The article is devoted to the ex-post evaluation of the merger approval and the remedy development by Russian competition authority — the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) — using the results of interviews and a sample survey. The analyses and the decisions made by the FAS in several large merger deals completed in 2006–2008 are assessed. The authors explain the comparative advantages of different methods to assess the effects of the public policy employed in Russia, as well as alternative approaches for the evaluation of the effects of the mergers. The data of interviews and sample surveys allow to reject the hypothesis on the restriction of the competition as a result of the merger deals. At the same time the experts are skeptical towards the conditions in the merger remedies and their impact on the market competition.
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