OREANDA-NEWS. August 29, 2011. The Round Table “Controversial Issues in the Work of Antimonopoly Bodies of Russia and Ukraine and Avenues for Resolving Them” takes place is hosted by FAS Russia. The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine is represented by a strong delegation led by the Committee Chairman, Vasily Tsushko, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

The agenda includes discussions on such issues as antimonopoly control on the market of motor fuel, developing competition on the markets of aviation fuel and electric power industry, combatting cartels, control over state procurement.

On the first day of the Round Table presentations were made by the Head of FAS Igor Artemiev, the Chairman of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine Vasily Tsushko, Deputy Head of FAS Anatoly Golomolzin and others.

At the Round Table, the Head of FAS Russia Igor Artemiev was presented an award of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine “For Protection of Economic Competition”.

The Round Table is the second bilateral Russian-Ukrainian event in 2011. In April 2011 a delegation of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine visited FAS Russia to discuss control over state procurement in Russia and Ukraine.

Cooperation between Russian and Ukrainian competition authorities has more than 15-year history. It is based on the Cooperation Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers in the field of competition development of 13th July 2000 and the Agreement about Coherent Antimonopoly Policy of the CIS Member-States of 25th January 2000.

Another document that determines cooperation between Russian and Ukrainian antimonopoly authorities is the Programme for Economic Cooperation between Russia and Ukraine, signed on 7th June 2011 in Moscow at the 8th meeting of the Committee on Economic Cooperation, at the Russian – Ukrainian Interstate Commission.

The Programme includes a number of measures towards expanding cooperation between the antimonopoly bodies of Russia and Ukraine, particularly, through exchanging information, providing methodological support, developing action-oriented cooperation. The Round Table is one of the events within the framework of the Programme.

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The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine is a state body with a special status, the objective of which is to ensure state protection of competition in entrepreneurial activities.

The key aim of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine is involvement in developing and exercising Ukrainian competition policy along the following directions:

Exercising state control over compliance with the law on protection of economic competition; preventing, exposing and terminating violations of the law on protection of economic competition;

Exercising control over economic concentration and concerted actions of economic entities;

Exercising control over price (tariff) regulation with regard to the holders of natural monopolies;

Facilitating fair competition (including, in particular: interaction with other state authorities, associations of economic entities and public organizations in the field of protecting and developing economic competition; participation in rule-making activities concerning both improvement of legislation on economic competition as well as adopting, amending or abolishing other regulatory legal acts or their certain provisions that affect the state of competition in Ukraine; international co-operation on the issues within the scope of reference of the Ukraine’s Antimonopoly Committee);

Methodological support of enforcement of the law on protection of economic competition (generalization and analysis of the enforcement practice, official interpretation of the Committee’s own regulatory legal acts, issuing recommendations and clarifications concerning enforcement of the law on protection of economic competition).

The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine comprises its Chairman and ten state commissioners, among whom two First Deputies and three Deputy Chairs of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine are appointed.