OREANDA-NEWS.  August 01, 2013. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (Altai OFAS Russia) terminated an antimonopoly case against a group of persons comprising “Market Council” Non-Government Partnership and “ATS” OJSC.

The matter was that the Agreement for connecting to the wholesale trading system set different requirements for electric power fiscal metering systems for the incumbents and new participants of the wholesale market of electric power (capacity).

To suppress imposing disadvantageous contract conditions upon new market participants – setting unequal conditions of the requirements to the electric power fiscal metering systems, FAS issued a warning to the group of persons comprising “Market Council” Non-Government Partnership and “ATS” OJSC to stop actions that had elements of breaching Clause 3 Part 1 Article 10 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition”.

On 16th July 2013 the Advisory Council of “Market Council” Non-Government Partnership approved changes to the Agreement, which set unified requirements for electric power fiscal metering systems for the incumbents and new participants of the wholesale market of electric power (capacity) – “B” class of accuracy for all market participants, the incumbents and the new ones, from 1st August 2013.

This fact shows that the group of persons comprising “Market Council” Non-Government Partnership and “ATS” OJSC executed the warning and eliminated the elements of the violation of the antimonopoly law.

“We were able to resolve the issue facing first of all the companies that enter the wholesale markets – earlier they were put in unequal conditions in comparison with the incumbents in the part of more strict requirements for the electric power automated metering systems. It is a significant step towards further liberalization of entry of new participants to the wholesale market by eliminating technological and administrative barriers”, pointed out the Head of FAS Department for Control over Electric Power Industry, Vitaly Korolyov.