REPORT ON THE OUTCOME OF FAS WORK IS ACCESSIBLE IN THE OPEN DATA FORMAT

The new set of data contains information about systemic measures towards competition development, improvement of antimonopoly regulation and the most significant results of FAS efforts

The final report about theresults of the work of the Federal Antimonopoly Service was drafted for an extended FAS Collegium on 16 September 2019.

The data comprise information about competition development measures outlined in the 2018-2020 National Plan, examples of the measures undertaken against cartels and unfair competition, efforts in the field of international cooperation, control over foreign investments, interaction between the Antimonopoly Service and the federal and regional authorities, and NGOs.

The Report also pays attention to FAS work on control over compliance with the antimonopoly law in the key sectors of the economy, fulfilling system-wide measures towards improving tariff regulation and enhancing efficiency of operations of natural monopolies.

Background:

Open data – information about the work of the Antimonopoly Service in machine-readable formats.

Open data are published in machine-readable formats in order to facilitate access of concerned persons to them, who can process such data and generate valuable research, applications, analytics, etc. Open data form a basis for a lot of socially important and public-spirited projects.

The main consumers of open data are developers of applications and services that use open data as source material for their projects as well as journalists and other stakeholders that can perform in-depth social-and-economic research based on “raw” data.

Users do not need to enter into agreements with the Federal Antimonopoly Service in order to be able to use (reuse) open data without impediment, free-of-charge, on a continuing basis, gratuitously and with no territorial restrictions for their use, particularly, they can copy, publish, disseminate open data and integrate them with other information, use open data for commercial and non-commercial purposes, use open data to create computer programs and applications.