The 70-year anniversary of UN efforts on competition is celebrated in Geneva

“70 years ago the United Nations Organization started working on all aspects of competition development. It is already 25 years that the Russian Federation joined the process and it is one of the most important areas of international activity for FAS”.

With these words, Deputy Head of FAS, Andrey Tsyganov started his speech at the opening ceremony of the 15^th session of the Inter-Government Expert Group on Competition Law and Policy of UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on 19 October 2016 in Geneva (Switzerland).

“We are grateful to UNCTAD for methodological products that help us develop Russian antimonopoly law and enforcement.  Also UNCTAD is a platform for exchanging ideas and experience, with face-to-face contacts between representatives of competition authorities from all over the world. FAS has always presented its experience and positions on the key items on the agenda of UNCTAD Inter-Government Expert Group on Competition Law and Policy, and we hope that Russian experience is useful for competition authorities of UNCTAD member-states”, pointed out Andrey Tsyganov.

The session participants represent competition authorities from across the globe, the leading universities, non-government and international organizations specializing in competition; overall more than 500 attendees.

The 15^th session of UNCTAD Inter-Government Expert Group on Competition Law and Policy lasts till 21 October 2016. The agenda includes discussing interactions between competition policy and consumer protection policy, competitive enforcement in retail trade, cooperation between competition authorities and judiciary, strengthening the private sector potential for observing competition norms.