OREANDA-NEWS. April 11, 2011. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) fined “Regional Network Information Centre” CJSC and “Regional Network Information Centre” Autonomous Non-Commercial Organisation 300,000 Rubles each, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

On 17th March 2011, FAS Russia initiated administrative cases against “Regional Network Information Centre” CJSC and “Regional Network Information Centre” Autonomous Non-Commercial Organisation upon the signs of violating Part 1 Article 25 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition” – failure to submit data (information) within the designated period.

The FAS Russia’s Commission requested additional information as part of investigating a case against “Regional Network Information Centre” CJSC and “Regional Network Information Centre” Autonomous Non-Commercial Organisation “RELCOM. DELOVAYA SET” Ltd., “Demos-Internet” CJSC, “Registrator” CJSC and “Elvis-Telecom” CJSC, initiated upon the signs of violating Clause 3 Part 1 Article 11 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition” and Paragraph 1 Part 1 Article 14 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition”.

According to the Commission, the economic entities violated the law by concluding and implementing the agreements that lead or can lead to dividing the market of the services for registering domain names in the zone .RF on the one hand – by volume of sales, and on the other – by categories of the sellers of such services.

On 31st March 2011, having considered the cases against “Regional Network Information Centre” CJSC and “Regional Network Information Centre” Autonomous Non-Commercial Organisation, FAS Russia fined both economic entities 300,000 Rubles.

As “Regional Network Information Centre” CJSC and “Regional Network Information Centre” Autonomous Non-Commercial Organisation failed to present the requested information within the designated period, the FAS Russia’s Commission postponed the antimonopoly case until 13th April 2011.

Imposing the fines does not relieve “Regional Network Information Centre” CJSC and “Regional Network Information Centre” Autonomous Non-Commercial Organisation from their obligations to submit the requested information to FAS Russia.

Reference:

1. Under Part 1 Article 25 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition”, commercial organisations and non-commercial organisations (their officials), federal executive bodies (their officials), the authorities of the constituent territories of the Russian Federation (their officials), local self-government bodies (their officials), other bodies and organisations exercising the functions of the above bodies (their officials), as well as state extra-budgetary funds (their officials), physical persons, including individual entrepreneurs, must submit request within the designated period to an antimonopoly body (its officials) upon a reasonable request, documents, explanations, information, accordingly in written and oral forms (including information that constitutes commercial, official or other secrets protected by law) including official correspondence in electronic format, required by the antimonopoly body in accordance its scope of reference.