Anti-Cartel Department

On 1 July 2016 Presnya District Court, Moscow, pronounced legitimacy and reasonableness of a FAS determination to impose a fine upon an official of “TransPek” Ltd. based on the findings on a collusion case (restricting competition in the course of providing postal carriage services).

Moscow Arbitration Court terminated the proceedings on invalidating a definition issued by the Federal Antimonopoly Service to bring a company as a respondent to a case.

FAS opened proceedings against “Jodas Expoim” Ltd., “Pharma Coppola” Pharmaceutical Company and “Saticom” upon elements of Clause 2 Part 1 Article 11 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition”.

On 26 February 2016, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) fined the “National Association of Estimated Pricing and Cost Engineering” Non-Profit Organization (3.5 million RUB), “Gosnormativ” Ltd. (9.9 million RUB), “Gosstroismeta” Ltd. (1.3 million RUB) and “Stroiinformizdat” Ltd. (100,000 RUB) for concluding an anticompetitive agreement involving the authorities and government bodies.

On 2 March 2016, at a workshop in the course of an extended FAS Collegium, the Head of FAS Anti-Cartel Department Andrey Tenishev discussed the results of monitoring cases under Articles 11, 11.1 and 16 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition” and inspecting economic entities.