OREANDA-NEWS. November 02, 2010. Ulyanovsk Regional Arbitration Court upheld the determination of Ulyanovsk Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (OFAS Russia) on imposing a RUB 405,000 fine upon a regional state unitary enterprise - Ulyanovsk Technical Inventory Bureau, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

In October 2009, Ulyanovsk OFAS received a petition from a physical person that a regional state unitary enterprise - Ulyanovsk Technical Inventory Bureau violated the antimonopoly law by fixing unreasonably high rates for the technical inventory services when the Bureau was registering an indoor parking space.

Ulyanovsk Technical Inventory Bureau included in the contract estimate legal consultations and the coefficient - “Document keeping in organization of technical inventory. Introducing changes to an inventory file”.

At the same time it did not render legal consultations to the physical person.

For such type of works as “Document keeping in organization of technical inventory. Introducing changes to an inventory file” the measurement unit is the “rights holder”. Calculations for such type of works are used only in record-keeping of real property – only in an inventory file and not in a database, as insisted by a representative of Ulyanovsk Technical Inventory Bureau.

“The arguments of Ulyanovsk Technical Inventory Bureau are unreasonable”, commented the Head of Ulyanovsk OFAS Russia, Mr. Gennady Spirichagov. According to the approved Tariffs for the works on state technical record-keeping and technical inventorying of capital construction projects in Ulyanovsk region, for entering information in an electronic database Clause 5.4 should be applied (“Document keeping in organization of technical inventory. Introducing changes to a database”). Therefore, the Technical Inventory Bureau violated Part 1 Article 10 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition”. As the economic entity that has dominant position on the market of technical inventory services in Ulyanovsk region, Ulyanovsk Technical Inventory Bureau was infringing citizens’ interests by imposing contract conditions”.

Governed by Article 14.31 of the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Violations, Ulyanovsk OFAS Russia issued a determination impose an administrative fine upon The Technical Inventory Bureau – three thousands of the income gained by the violator from selling goods (works, services) on the market where the administrative violation was committed.

The Technical Inventory Bureau disagreed with the decision of the antimonopoly body and filed a lawsuit to Ulyanovsk Regional Arbitration Court.

Having examined the case file, the Court pronounced legitimacy of the actions undertaken by Ulyanovsk OFAS Russia.