OREANDA-NEWS. August 11, 2009. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) arrived to this conclusion after analyzing the data collected by the regional FAS Russia's offices in June 2009, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

To ensure stability in the goods markets in the Russian Federation, the regional FAS Russia's offices carry out monthly monitoring of prices for socially important goods: bread, milk and sunflower oil, along the whole integrated production chain for those products.

Data analysis showed that ex-works and purchasing prices for flour remained stable in most regions and in just a few regions prices increased or decreased insignificantly in comparison with May 2009.

Ex-works flour prices increased by 9 - 29% in the Kaluga, Kurgan, Samara and Tambov regions and the Republic of Adygea.

Individual producers in the Voronezh, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Tomsk and Kaliningrad regions reduced ex-works flour prices by 4-8%.

The most significant reduction of ex-works flour prices was in the Kamchatka region (25%), St Petersburg (10%), the Republic of Checheno-Ingushetia (9%). IN the Samara region one economic entity ("Zhugulevsky Chlebozavod" OJSC cut down the price for medium rye flour by 21%.

Monitoring of bread market in June 2009 showed that in most regions ex-works prices of producers of wheat and rye bread and bakery products remained stable.

Retail prices for common sorts of wheat and rye bread and bakery products stayed unchanged.

Some producers increased retail prices in the following regions:
- Wheat bread and bakery products: Samara ("Perekryostok" Trading House" CJSC - by12%), Novgorod (Novoblpotrebsoyuz - by 33%), Kaliningrad ("Victoria Baltia" Ltd. - by 19%), Kaluga ("Kaluzhskie Magaziny" Ltd. - by 30%), Kurgan ("Yezhevika" TF" Ltd. - by 20%) and Novosibirsk ("Holiday" Ltd. - by 21%);

- Rye bread and bakery products: Samara ("ShED" - by 8%), Tambov ("Fort" Ltd. - by 12%), Novgorod (Novoblpotrebsoyuz - by 7%) and Kaliningrad ("Victoria Baltia" Ltd. - by 25%).

In some regions retail prices for wheat bread and bakery products in the analyzed period went down.

According to the regional offices of FAS Russia, ex-works prices for milk in June 2009 remained stable in most of the regions of reduced (on average by 6-24% depending on the region).

Only a producer in the Sverdlovsk region increased ex-works milk prices in comparison with April 2009 ("Pervaya Molocjnaya Kompania" CJSC - by 6%).

In the analyzed period retail prices for milk in Saratov, Astrakhan and Samara region, in other regions retail prices reduced on average by 15%.

In June 2009 ex-works prices for sunflower oil remained stable in most of the regions or decreased insignificantly; only on some regions producers increased prices insignificantly.

The most noticeable decrease of retail prices for sunflower oil by some economic entities (15% - 28%) took place in the Voronezh, Samara, Chelyabinsk, and Leningrad regions and St Petersburg.

Price monitoring in May-June 2009 showed that in most regions purchasing prices for raw milk were reduced; in most regions retail prices for milk also went down in this period.

Monitoring revealed elements of violations of the antimonopoly legislation on the market of buying and processing raw milk in the Republic of Tatarstan, the Belgorod, Moscow, Novgorod and Krasnodar regions.

FAS Russia's offices in those regions started antimonopoly investigations.

In general, retail prices for food products continued stabilizing in June 2009. No price explosions were observed, many economic entities maintained stable prices and are gradually decreasing them.