OREANDA-NEWS. August 07, 2012. The Round Table - “Unified Competition Policy – is a Necessary Condition for Establishing and Effective Functioning of the Common Economic Space”, organized in Karaganda (the Republic of Kazakhstan), summarized its work, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

Speakers included Deputy Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) Anatoly Golomolzin; the Chairman of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Competition Protection, Gabidulla Abdrakhimov; Deputy Director of Pricing Policy Department, of the Ministry of Economics, the Republic of Belarus, Ivan Trepenok; and a Member of the Collegium (the Minister) on Competition and Antimonopoly Regulation, Nurlan Aldabergenov.

As a result of discussions, Round Tables are determined as an optimal form of interaction for discussing pressing issues, related to establishing the Common Economic Space.

Further discussions of law harmonization, building common markets and eliminating shortcomings in market performance will be organized in the form of Round Tables. Such Round Tables will be organized on a regularly basis, approximately monthly.

Common problems of improving market relations within the three countries: functioning of industry-specific markets – also will be subjects to discussion. Proposals of business-communities that highlighted problems on the markets of alcohol, air transportation, electric power industry, telecommunications and other markets will be taken into account.

Priority subjects for discussion in the near future included trademark security within the Common Economic Space (the Republic of Belarus) and performance of the market of oil and oil supply (the Republic of Kazakhstan).

Next Round Table will take place in August 2012 in Novosibirsk to discuss in detail the forms and mechanisms of cooperation and interaction between national antimonopoly bodies, the Eurasian Economic Commission, and business communities of the member-states of the Common Economic Space.

In his final speech Anatoly Golomolzin pointed out: “Entrepreneurs and consumers will understand how the authorized antimonopoly bodies cooperate at the national and supranational level. Now efforts are being taken to elaborate the procedures for allocating competences, rights and obligations. Regardless of where a petitioner filed a petition, a petition will be forwarded to an authorized body and the decision will be made in accordance with the agreements that form the regulatory and legal framework of the Common Economic Space and the national law”.