OREANDA-NEWS. August 10, 2011. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) will open a Training-and-Resource Centre in Kazan - the capital city of the Republic of Tatarstan. The Government of the Russian Federation signed the necessary instructions. The future Centre is designed to stimulate development of Competition in Russia, expand capabilities of businesses, and train qualified staff for the antimonopoly bodies, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

Foundations for the new federal educational institution were laid last year in course of meetings and negotiations between Stats-Secretary Andrey Tsarikovsky, Deputy Head of FAS Russia, with the Prime-Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, Ildar Khalikov.

As a result, on 3rd September 2010, FAS Russia and the Government of Tatarstan signed an agreement to open a Training-and-Resource Centre of the Antimonopoly Service in Kazan. Under the Agreement, representatives of the Government of Tatarstan and Tatarstan executive bodies formed an Inter-Branch Working Group responsible for organisation of the Centre.

The Center will play an important role because it is essential to achieve unified principles for applying dynamically developing law, for enforcement of which FAS is responsible. The Centre will be a platform facilitating unified interpretation of the norms of the antimonopoly law, the law on advertising and control over state procurement in order to enhance efficiency of the joint efforts of FAS Russia and its regional offices to prevent, reveal and suppress violations.

“Apart from training, the FAS Russia Centre will organise international conferences, workshops, meetings to ensure harmonization of the antimonopoly law in Russia and the CIS member-states, as well as other foreing countries to achieve better practical results pursuing competition policy at both national and international levels”, emphasised Stats-Secretary Andrey Tsarikovskiy, Deputy Head of FAS Russia.