ELENA ZAEVA: BASIC ECONOMIC CAPACITIES ARE BEING FORMED THAT WILL DETERMINE GLOBAL INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT IN THE FUTURE
Head of FAS Department for Regulating Communications and Information Technologies was a speaker at a joint session of the 53rd Council of the Heads of RSS Communications Authorities and the 24th KSI in Turkmenistan
Speaking on behalf of Deputy Head of FAS Anatoly Golomolzin, Elena Zaeva thanked the participants for effective cooperation on developing ICT markets and for interactions under the frame of the Memorandum of Cooperation between the Interstate Council on Antimonopoly Policy (ICAP) and the Headquarters for Joint Investigations of Violations of the Antimonopoly Law of the CIS Member-States.
Elena Zaeva discussed a report on “Developing competition policy in the digital economy” prepared by the Headquarters, which was broadly discussed at the Competition Week and its topicality was emphasized.
“Digital economy is a game-changing system of economic legal relations that has emerged and is developing in the new paradigm of digital relations. Competition has always been an integral element of successful economic development, but under the new conditions of digital economy, competition also enables innovative development in the future even if the threats to it are not obvious now. Today the time has come when basic economic capacities are formed that in the future will determine global innovative development”, pointed out Elena Zaeva.
She quoted the report conclusions: “Changes in goods circulation associated with ICT have influenced the current markets and created the new ones, where useful value is created by collection, processing and providing information, including telemetric data: the markets of wholesale and retail trade, insurance, carriage, tourist services and many others when services are offered online. New markets have emerged, for which there are no physical analogues: navigation and positioning, e-documentary flow, e-trading sites”.
Based on the work done, participants reach conclusions that states should intensify their efforts in order to develop new digital markets under competitive conditions, technological neutral regulation, mutually related distributed ecosystems of digital economy.
Deputy Head of FAS Anatoly Golomolzin commented the meeting outcome: “No doubt, our cooperation will facilitate efficient development of ICT in our countries as well as our economies under the modern conditions. We have experience of successful joint interaction, and we propose to develop our achievements together with innovative development of our countries”.
He also pointed out that under the frame of the Headquarters for Joint Investigations of Violations of the Antimonopoly Law of the CIS Member-States participants analyzed the state of competition on the telecommunications markets of the CIS Member-States, exposing a range of issues and devising proposals on improving regulations for the purposes of creating comfortable telecommunications space in the CIS Member-States, including proposals on improving roaming conditions.
Anatoly Golomolzin informed that RSS had drafted a Memorandum on the conditions of inter-operator reciprocal payments for international telecommunications services in the CIS Member-States.
“Analyzing the factors of influence upon pricing for international telecommunications services in roaming, the competition authorities are reaching conclusions that now there is need to specify the conditions of the Memorandum and formalize the requirements on non-discriminatory conditions for call completion services and roaming communications services. We are ready to take an active part in mainstreaming the Memorandum and are convinced that our work will facilitate common telecommunications space if our countries”, added Deputy Head of FAS.