OREANDA-NEWS. November 19, 2012. The Federal Customs Service voluntarily eliminated a violation of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition” in the part of creating special conditions for import of tablet computers of a well-known trademark, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

On 27th April 2012, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) initiated a case against the Federal Customs Service under Article 15 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition”. According to materials studied during the case investigation, the Federal Customs Service issued a teletypogram explaining qualification of tablet computers of Ipad (Apple).

According to the FAS Commission, the content of the teletypogram, which concerned exclusively the Apple products, violated Part 1 Article 15 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition” because it created special conditions for importing these products to the Russian Federation.

In the course of investigating the case opened upon signs of violating the antimonopoly law, the Federal Customs Service voluntarily withdrew the teletypogram, eliminating the antimonopoly violation.

On 15th November 2012, the FAS Commission terminated the case on violating the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition”.