OREANDA-NEWS. On June 16, 2009 The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation informed the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) in executing the determination issued by the antimonopoly authority, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

On 25th February 2009, the FAS Russia's Commission found the Ministry violated Part 1 Article 15 of the Federal Law "On Protection of Competition". On 30th November 2001 the Ministry made a Decision "On completing airborne radioelectronic equipment for aircrafts (BREO LA) of army and front-line aviation with modified communication systems ТКS-2М and radio-communication equipment".

Clause 3 of the Decision included provisions on mandatory agreement regarding other technical solutions for airborne communications systems, different from ТКS-2М, with a competitor. This decision could have led to preventing, restricting or eliminating competition on the market of airborne communication systems for aircrafts, by determining in advance the sole developer and manufacturer of the equipment.

The FAS Russia's Commission issued a determination to the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation requesting it to eliminate the antimonopoly violation: to amend Clause 3 of the Decision, bearing in mind that the economic entity, which offered another technical solution different from the base (recommended) solution, should not agree upon possibility of its application (implementation) with another economic entity, in particular, a manufacturer of similar products.

The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation presented documents to FAS Russia, confirming elimination of the antimonopoly violation.