OREANDA-NEWS. May 20, 2014. The Federal Antimonopoly Service held a follow-up meeting chaired by Deputy Head of FAS Russia, Andrey Tsyganov, on executing measures of the Road Map on “Developing Competition and Improving the Antimonopoly Law” (further on referred to as the Road Map) with the deadline - 2013 and January – April 2014.

Attendees included representatives of federal executive bodies and “Strategic Initiatives Agency for Promoting New Projects” Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization.

Overall, the Road Map outlined 80 measures to be executed in 2013. Participants pointed out that in general the situation with executing the Road Map measures with the deadline in 2013 has improved, the proportion of unexecuted measures decreased to 25%.

The Road Map specifies 8 measures to be executed in January – April 2014. The Ministry of the Russian Federation for Economic Development already executed two of them, and received positive evaluation from business community.

Andrey Tsyganov reported that on 17th April 2014 the Government of the Russian Federation instructed federal executive bodies to accelerate execution of Road Maps aimed at improving investment climate in the Russian Federation. In particular, all draft laws must be submitted to the Government of the Russian Federation in 2014.

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The Road Map on “Developing Competition and Improving the Antimonopoly Law” is one of the “Road Maps” for the national entrepreneurial initiative to improve investment climate in the Russian Federation.

The Road Map include system-wide measures as well as measures towards developing competition on particular markets – medicines, medical services, pre-school education services, air transportation, communications services, oil products.

On 17th August 2013, a Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation made the Federal Antimonopoly Service the coordinator of actions of responsible executors and co-executors of the Road Map - 15 federal executive bodies and “Strategic Initiatives Agency for Promoting New Projects”.