OREANDA-NEWS. August 24, 2011. The Commission of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) found that the “Association of Alcohol Market Agents of the Orenburg Region” Non-Commercial Organisation violated Part 1 Article 11 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition”, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

The “Association of Alcohol Market Agents of the Orenburg Region” Non-Commercial Organisation violated the law by coordinating economic activities of its members. The FAS Commission concluded that coordinating economic activities restricted competition by:

- fixing and maintaining prices;

- dividing the market under a geographic principle and according to the range of goods and categories of buyers;

- refusing to conclude contracts with certain sellers or buyers ýwith economic or technological justification;

- imposing disadvantageous contract conditions upon counteragents or conditions irrelevant to the contract subject;

- fixing different prices for the same goods in the absence of economic, technological or other justification;

- preventing entry of other economic entities to the market;

- fixing membership (participation) conditions for professional and other associations.

The FAS Commission issued a determination to the “Association of Alcohol Market Agents of the Orenburg Region” Non-Commercial Organisation to stop the violations.

Timophei Nizhegorodtsev, the Head of the FAS Department for Control over Social Sphere and Trade commented the decision of FAS Commission: “Actions of the market players led to raising entry barriers to the market, fixing prices for alcohol products as well as other conditions for selling the goods on the market. As a result, most of the cartel participants were able to gain income on an especially large scale”.

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The “Association of Alcohol Market Agents of the Orenburg Region” Non-Commercial Organisation includes the following members:

“YeVK” Ltd., “Agros” Ltd., “Asnker” Ltd., “Bacchus Plus” Ltd., “Doctor Vinolyubov” Ltd., “Novie Imena” Ltd., “Perelyotov & Co.” Ltd., “Rus’import-Orenburg “Trading House” Ltd., “Chateau”Trading Company” Ltd., “Sovin” Trading House” Ltd., “Orencom” Trading House” Ltd., “Yuzhuralcontract” Ltd., “Novy Mir” Trading House” Ltd., “Sizov & Co.” Orenburg Regional Corporation” Trust Partnership, “Nika Plus” Ltd., “Omega” Ltd., “Contract” Trading Complex” Ltd., “Slavyanka” Trading House” Ltd., “Udacha” Trading House” Ltd., “Ring+”Ltd., “Orsk-Alco-Tsentr” Ltd., “Ring-Opt” Ltd., “Kuper ÕÕI” Ltd., “Argument” Ltd., “UralAlcoService” Ltd., “Orenburgspirt” Ltd., “OrenburgAlcoTsentr” Ltd., “YeVK” Wholesale Centre” Ltd., “Samara” SP” Ltd., “City Industrial Company” Ltd., “Buzoulyk Distillery“ Ltd., “RusAlco” Ltd., “Umnovsk Distillery” Ltd. and “Sever” Ltd.