OREANDA-NEWS. August 27, 2012. The Eurasian Economic Commission and FAS Russia, with support of the Government of the Novosibirsk Region, organized a Round Table “Role of Competition Policy in Developing Common Economic Space” , reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

Round Table participants included the Minister on Competition and Antimonopoly Regulation of the Eurasian Commission, Nurlan Aldabergenov; Deputy Head of FAS Russia, Anatoly Golomolzin; the heads of regional FAS offices in the Siberian Federal District; an advisor to the Chairman of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Competition Protection, Erkegali Alimkulov; the Director of the Pricing Policy Department, the Ministry of Economics of the Republic of Belarus, Igor Fomin; representatives of the Antimonopoly Regulation Department and the Department for Competition Policy and Public Procurement Policy of the Eurasian Economic Commission; representatives of several federal executive bodies in the Novosibirsk region, Novosibirsk regional authorities, business community, academia and non-governmental organizations.

The Governor of Novosibirsk region, Viktor Yurchenko, the Chairman of Legislature of the Novosibirsk region, Ivan Moroz, and Novosibirsk Major, Vladimir Gorodetsky, welcomed participants of the Round Table, and wished them productive work.

Participants discussed the main directions of competition policy and the prospects of developing common competition policy and public (municipal) procurement policy within the Common Economic Space.

The Chairman of Novosibirsk Regional Arbitration Court, Olga Gerasimova, talked about judicial practice of applying law on protecting competition.

Then representatives of business and non-governmental organizations took the initiative. Presentations were given by the President of Novosibirsk City Chamber of Commerce & Industry, the Chairman of “Belarus Confederation of Entrepreneurship and Science” Republican Union of Non-Governmental Organizations, as well as Russian entrepreneurs.

At the end, participants summarized the Round Table and devised proposals for the future.

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Novosibirsk is the first city in Russia that held an event of such level. To highlight efforts towards harmonizing competition law of member-states of the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space, the Collegium of the Eurasian Economic Commission plan to visit several regions that can be interested in developing cooperation with partner-states within the common economic space of the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation. Novosibirsk was not chosen by accident. The Novosibirsk region has important industrial and research potential. Geographical proximity to Kazakhstan predetermines expansion of economic-and-commercial relations between companies from Novosibirsk region and the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The Eurasian Economic Commission was formed by a decision of the Presidents of the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Kazakhstan at the end of 2011 as a single permanent regulatory body of the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space. Today the Eurasian Economic Commission comprises the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus, and the Republic of Kazakhstan; other countries can join the Commission).

The Eurasian Economic Commission is a supranational regulatory body, which is not subordinate to any government of the three countries. The Commission’s decisions are mandatory for Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

The main objective of the Eurasian Economic Commission – is to provide conditions for functioning and developing the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space, as well as devising proposals for increasing integration. The Eurasian Economic Commission is assigned the powers of the abolishable Commission of the Customs Union.