OREANDA-NEWS. September 24, 2010. Regional offices of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (OFAS Russia) initiated 123 cases based on the monitoring of prices for socially important food products, of which 88 cases for the signs of antimonopoly violations and 16 cases for the signs of violating the law on trade, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

Antimonopoly bodies are inspecting whether all participants of the food products market comply with the law – suppliers of raw materials, producers of food products, wholesalers and retail chains.

If any signs of antimonopoly violations are revealed, regional offices of FAS Russia apply antimonopoly enforcement.

Currently decisions are made and relevant determinations are issued on antimonopoly cases on the markets of flour, bread, butter, peeled buckwheat and salt as well as against actions the authorities by regional offices of FAS Russia in Amur, Astrakhan, Bryansk, Kemerovo, Omsk, Penza, Rostov and Tula regions and the Republic of Bashkortostan.

Last week new antimonopoly cases were initiated by the offices of FAS Russia in Amur, Arkhangelsk, Altai, Dagestan, St Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Kursk, Krasnodar, Rostov, Tula, Moscow, and Orenburg regions and the Republic of Khakassia.

Currently prices for peeled buckwheat are showing the highest growth rate, so FAS Russia is investigating the buckwheat market to identify the reasons for such price jumping. The investigation covers both producers and wholesalers of buckwheat.

At the same time, regional offices of FAS Russia also investigate antimonopoly violations on the market of buckwheat (buckwheat cases are opened by OFAS Russia in Altai, Kaliningrad, Nizhniy Novgorod, Omsk, Perm and St Petersburg, and Republics of Dagestan, Tatarstan, Khakassia and Bashkortostan).

Due to considerably increase of prices for chicken eggs, Astrakhan, Arkhangelsk, Krasnodar, Lipetsk, Dagestan, and Tomsk offices of FAS Russia initiated cases upon the signs of antimonopoly violations on the market of chicken eggs.

FAS Russia also would like to praise the following regional offices for good work in this area: Amur, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kemerovo, Krasnodar, Kursk, Moscow regional, Murmansk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Perm, Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, and the Republics of Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, Khakassia and Chuvashia.