OREANDA-NEWS. May 28, 2013. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) found that the Department for Health Care and Social Security of the Belgorod Region violated Part 3 Article 15 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition”.

The Department assigned the functions and rights of a regulatory body to an economic entity by approving the Statutes of the “Centre for Quality Control and Certification of Medicines” Regional State Budgetary Health Institution.

According to the Statutes, the Centre randomly monitored drug quality and safety on a fee-paid basis. The Government of the Russian Federation assigned these functions to Roszdravnadzor [the Federal Service for Supervision over Public Health and Social Development].

In the course of the investigation FAS received documents confirming voluntary elimination of the antimonopoly violations and the case was closed.

“The decision made by FAS is the sixth one in a series of antimonopoly cases on establishing unlawful forms of control in the constituent territories of the Russian Federation. Earlier, thanks to FAS intervention unlawful forms of control were suppressed in the Sverdlovsk, Samara, Lipetsk, Kemerovo regions and the Republic of Bashkortostan”, pointed out the Head of FAS Department for Control over Social Sphere and Trade, Mr. Nizhegorodtsev.

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Under Article 5 of the Federal Law “On Circulation of Medicines” state control (regulation) over medicines circulation is exercised by federal executive bodies.

Part 3 Article 15 of No.135-FZ Federal Law “On Protection of Competition” (2006) prohibits assigning the functions and rights of regulatory bodies to economic entities.