THE STARTING POINT FOR COMPETITION DEVELOPMENT

41 competition development targets in different spheres of regional economy determined by the State Council is the minimum starting point

Head of FAS Fiscal Control Department Vladimir Mishelovin was a speaker at the Research-to-Practice Conference on the “Competition Development Strategy: experience of the leading regions” on 27 September 2018 in Sochi.

At the plenary session, Vladimir Mishelovin highlighted some results of work in the regions for implementing the Standards and achieving the targets on socially-important and priority markets in the previous three years. He pointed out that “the discussion on the new Standard version is not over yet, while the Ministry of Economic Development has submitted the document with disagreements to the Government of the Russian Federation”.

In his opinion, the experience and the best achievements of regions can form the basis of the efforts to implement the Competition Development Standard in a new format. In particular, the experience of achieving the targets on the markets of communications, passenger carriage by ground transport, retail trade by pharmacies, where more than half of the regions have achieved the targets. FAS has always paid attention to efficiency of choosing the priority markets, supporting which launches a multiplication effect for developing adjacent markets – these are, first of all, markets of tourist industry, agricultural and food products markets. Undoubtedly, modern tools for competition development and SME support in public and municipal procurement such as, for example, used in Moscow and Tatarstan.

One of the main tasks for regional authorities and federal executive bodies became training of qualified competition specialists. Fro several years FAS has been undertaking measures for studying and transferring the best practices and exchanging opinions between representatives of different regions and federal executive bodies.

“Further on, we are ready to increase the number of such measures and expand methodological support to implementing the Competition Development Standard”, pointed out Vladimir Mishelovin.

Deputy Head of FAS Fiscal Control Department, Elena Rybachenko, discussed the concept of a new version of the Competition Development Standard in the regions of Russia.

She reported about the measures undertaken at the federal, regional and municipal levels to implement the Standard, and approaches to compiling the list of markets and Road Maps by regions of the Russian Federation.

Finally, Elena Rybachenko informed that under No. 618 Presidential Order of 21.12.2017 special role in implementing the Standard at the regional level was given to public control by Public Councils at FAS regional Offices, that will valuate the efforts of a region towards developing competition, as well as All-Russian NGOs – “OPORA Russia” “Business Russia”, the Chamber of Industry and Commerce of the of the Russian Federation, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.