OREANDA-NEWS. December 04, 2008. The 9th Arbitration Appeal Court sustained the ruling of the Moscow Arbitration Court that dismissed the defamation claim of "Russcart" Ltd. against the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia), reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

"Russcart" Ltd. rebutted the press-release published on the official web-site of FAS Russia in February 2007. The press-release was prepared after the antimonopoly authority had found that the company had violated the antimonopoly legislation by engaging in unfair competition. According to FAS Russia, the company violated the law by putting inaccurate information on the product packaging. Later the Court revoked the FAS Russia's decision.

FAS Russia, governed by the current legislation the Regulations on Informational Policy, published the full text of the court ruling, revoking the FAS Russia's decision, on its official web-site. "Russcart" Ltd. found it insufficient and demanded FAS Russia to change the information in the archive of press-releases on the official web-site of the Antimonopoly Service.

To timely inform the public on its work, FAS Russia publishes press-releases on the outcome of every case initiated by the service within its terms of reference on its official web-site. The acts of FAS Russia are valid until the court rules otherwise and publishing press-release on the FAS Russia's decision cannot be considered as defamation.

The Court of the First instance and the Appeal Court supported the FAS Russia's position that the information in question was correct at the time of its publication.

FAS Russia also published full bodies of the courts acts related the toe work of FAS Russia (as well as the texts of the decisions adopted by the Antimonopoly Service) on its official web-site. This was FAS Russia provides full and objective information about its work to the visitors of its official Internet site.