OREANDA-NEWS. February 25, 2011. FAS Russia is considering a petition of “CATERPILLAR INC.” (location: 100 NE Adams Street, Peoria Illinois, 61629, the USA; main activities – manufacturing construction and mining equipment, diesel and gas engines and industrial gas turbines) on acquiring the rights that allows determining the conditions of entrepreneurial activities of “Bucyrus Service” Ltd. (location: 4/8, Kirzavodskaya St., Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo Region, 654004; main activities – aftersales service and maintenance of mining machinery and equipment), reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

Governed by Article 33 of No.1356-FZ Federal Law “On Protection of Competition” of 26th July 2006, FAS Russia considered the petition and has extended the period for its consideration for two months in order to be able to obtain additional information necessary to make a decision.

FAS Russia would like to state that all interested persons can present to the antimonopoly authority information as to how the transaction affect competition.