SERGEY PUZYREVSKIY: UNITARY ENTERPRISES OPERATING ON ADMINISTRATIVE COMMAND PRINCIPLES MONOPOLISE COMPETITIVE MARKETS

Synchronization of National projects with the National Plan measures and reorganizing unitary enterprises is under control in the Khabarovsk region

At the end of June, Deputy Head of FAS Sergey Puzyrevskiy had a working visit to Far East where he discussed pressing issues of pursing the National Competition Development Plan in the region with the team of Khabarovsk OFAS.

He emphasized: “the worst that can happen with national project is to get a monopoly where there is private market. Therefore, National projects should account for the goals of the National Competition Development Plan. Competition is formed, first of all, through investors, private businesses entering the market. There is no competition without private business”.

He outlined FAS law-making efforts under the frame of the National Competition Development Plan: devising the “fifth antimonopoly package” aimed at improving antimonopoly regulation in the digital economy.

“We are living at the time when those who possess tangible assets do not always control the market. The largest among them are exclusively technological companies that have no relations to material production: Amazon, Google, Apple and others”, explained Sergey Puzyrevskiy.

Special attention was paid to reorganizing unitary enterprises on competitive markets. According to Deputy Head of FAS, the organizational-and-legal form of unitary enterprises does not fit the equal conditions systems in terms of the antimonopoly norms, since they lack antimonopoly control over preference-granting.  

He stressed that “unitary enterprises operating under the administrative command principles monopolize competitive markets”.

Finally, Sergey Puzyrevskiy pointed out that “the Khabarovsk region is a powerful area, one of the leaders in the Far East and regional authorities should facilitate high-quality development of the regional economy”.