OREANDA-NEWS. December 10, 2010. A Working Group of the International Competition Network (ICN) held a workshop in Brussels (Belgium) focusing on legal regulation and enforcement practice in the incidents of abusing market dominance, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

Maxim Ovchinnikov, the Head of the FAS Russia’s Department for Industry and Defence, moderated a workshop session devoted to legal treatment of market dominance and the issues of establishing the facts of abusing market dominance in different jurisdictions. FAS Russia’s expert moderating this session became possible due to active involvement of representatives of Russian competition authority within the ICN Working Group.

At the workshop FAS Russia presented its experience in control over compliance with the antimonopoly law including abuse of market dominance in the Russian Federation, particularly in view of the changes to the antimonopoly law introduced by the “second antimonopoly package” in 2009.

Participants discussed legal regulation of unilateral behavior in the countries – members of ICN, cooperation between competition authorities considering cases on market dominance that affected the state of competition in several states, application of economic analysis in cases on abuse of market dominance and interpretation of various aspects of abusing market dominance by courts.

The Workshop participants showed considerable interest towards a possibility of collecting and systematizing best practices on suppressing and preventing abuse of market dominance, which will be further used by the ICN Working Group.