OREANDA-NEWS. September 17, 2010. The state unitary enterprise of the city of Moscow for exploitation of high-rise administrative and residential buildings (EVAZhD) has disseminated information through mass media that increasing the fee for use of car-places by citizens is caused by the need to comply with the requirements of No.135-FZ Federal Law “On Protection of Competition”, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

Referring to this statement, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) would like to emphasize that under Article 3 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition” the force of the Law extends to relations associated with protection of competition, including prevention and suppression of monopolistic activities and unfair competition.

Under Article 4 of No.135-FZ Federal Law competition is defined as rivalry between economic entities. An economic entity is an individual entrepreneur, a commercial organization or a non-commercial organization, which exercises profit-making activities.

Therefore, the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition” is not applicable to relations, connected to assigning car-places to physical persons, who are not individual entrepreneurs, for temporary use. EVAZhD unlawfully justifies its actions referring to the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition”.