OREANDA-NEWS. November 02, 2012. Moscow Arbitration Court upheld the decision of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) that the Federal Tariff Service violated the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition” (Part 1 Article 15), reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.   

According to FAS Russia, omissions by the Federal Tariff Service created obstacles for “Volgogradoblelectrosbyt” Ltd. (“VOES” Ltd.) trading electric power on the wholesale market.

The Federal Tariff Service violated the law by failure to consider disagreements between the company and the Regional Tariff Office of the Volgograd Regional Authority with regard for proposals of “VOES” Ltd. to include electric power generation and supply within the Unified Energy System in the Volgograd region in 2010 consolidated balance forecast.

The FAS Commission concluded that the Federal Tariff Service could have restricted access of the company to the trade systems of the wholesale markets, depriving “VOES” Ltd. of its status as the last resort provider.

Having investigated the case, the FAS Commission found that those omissions by the Federal Tariff Service violated the antimonopoly law.

The Federal Tariff Service disagreed with the FAS decision and filed a lawsuit to Moscow Arbitration Court to invalidate the decision. In it turn the Court dismissed the claim and upheld the FAS decision.