The National Competition Development Plan is designed to improve the economic situation in Russia

Speaking at the regional workshop in Anapa, Deputy Head of FAS Sergey Puzyrevskiy said that the National Competition Development Plan will stimulate transition from natural monopolies to a competitive state of the economy.

He pointed out that “based on the results of the Report on the state of competition, drafted by FAS, the Government of the Russian Federation instructed Ministries to devise and approve by 1 March 2017 industry Road Maps aimed at developing competition. Also upon instructions from the Government, efforts are being undertaken to come up with the National Competition Development Plan”.

The Plan presumes deregulating some industries and prohibiting formation of unitary enterprise on the markets that are in competitive conditions.

The National Competition Development Planwill stop reinforcing state monopolism in the economy.The most dangerous trend here is enormous mushrooming of state and municipal unitary enterprise.  In the past three years their number increased twofold. When a unitary enterprise enters a competitive market, it monopolises that market after a while, private business is discriminated, which pushes away from various fields of activity, where private business could develop”, emphasized Sergey Puzyrevskiy.

FAS will submit the document to the Government of the Russian Federation by 1 December 2016.

Deputy Head of the Antimonopoly Service highlighted FAS evolutionary approach to tariff regulation. “Consumers should become the chief arbitrator in tariff setting. Citizens should understand what is put in tariffs and what costs companies bear. To ensure higher level of guarantees for the rights of consumers and regulated organizations, we started devising a law on state tariff regulation which will exclude the current problems”.

The Head of FAS Legal Department Artem Molchanov continued the line of changes to the legislation. He discussed the main provisions of the “forth antimonopoly package” and an “anti-crisis” law. Artem Molchanov pointed out: “The documents reduced administrative barriers upon business and gave softer rules of the game for small companies in comparison with large economic entities”.

Alevtina Timoshenko, an assistant to Head of FAS, highlighted the up-to-date judicial practice and answered questions from Heads of regional antimonopoly bodies.

Concluding the event, Head of Krasnodar OFAS Rufina Degtyaryova stated: “Discussing pressing and problematic issues at the regional workshop that can emerge applying the “forth antimonopoly package” will encourage solving the tasks that face FAS regional Offices and will have a positive effect upon performance of the antimonopoly bodies in the interests of developing regional economy and enhancing well-being of the population”.

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Attendees included Head of Dagestan OFAS Kubasai Kubasaev; Head of Stavropol OFAS, Sergey Nikitin; Head of Karachaevo-Cherkessis OFAS Amin Urakchiev; Deputy Head of Tver OFAS Lyudmila Posokhova; Economic Minister of the Krasnodar region, Alexander Ruppel; representatives of the judiciary, etc.