OREANDA-NEWS.  February 14, 2014. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) organized an interregional workshop in Kirov.

Deputy Head of FAS Andrey Tsyganov, representatives of regional Offices of the Antimonopoly Service in Privolzhie Federal District, as well as officers of Vladimir, Kostroma and Kurgan OFAS Russia and the Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service in the Republic of Komi took part in the workshop.

On the first day FAS Russia hold a meeting on “Market Analysis in Investigating Cases on Violating the Antimonopoly Law and Cases on Administrative Violations”.

The meeting took place on-line and involved representatives of FAS regional Offices from 14 regions, 13 regional FAS Offices in Privolzhie Federal District as well as Arbitration Courts from 15 regions the Federal Arbitration Court of the Volgo-Vyatka District and the First Arbitration Appeal Court.

Special attention was given to the approaches to defining the boundaries of the market of oil products as one of the most important markets in the modern Russian economy, determining the size of turnover fines imposed for violating the antimonopoly law, as well as the issues of establishing dominance on the market of managing apartment houses.

Reviewing the preliminary results, Deputy Head of FAS Andrey Tsyganov emphasized that participants raised essential issues and put forward proposals that should be summarized to be used in the Federal Antimonopoly Service in practice.

The second day of the regional workshop took place at the Government of the Kirov Region and focused on such issues as problematic aspects of antimonopoly enforcement in investigating violations of the authorities of Articles 17 and 17.1 of No.135-FZ Federal Law “On Protection of Competition” and the guidelines for analyzing the market of milk and dairy products.

Andrey Chechevatov, the Chief Federal Inspector in the Kirov region, and representatives of the Government of the Kirov Region, municipalities and agricultural producers took part in the workshop.

Experts from Kirov, Orenburg, Chuvashia, Samara, Bashkortostan and Mordovia OFAS shared experience and discussed common pressing issues.

Looking into the issues of analysis of the market of milk and dairy products participants arrived at the common view that the market cannot be considered exclusively within regional boundaries since it has an interregional nature. In this regard, Andrey Tsyganov pointed out that it would be necessary to once again consider market analysis procedures at the Central FAS Office and the methods of surveying uniformity of allocating subsidies among agricultural producers.

At the end of the workshop participants visited Kirov Milk Integrated Plant, where they were able to see how dairy products, supplied to the Russian market, are produced and with what ingredients.