OREANDA-NEWS. July 29, 2014. The statement was made by the Head of the Legal Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia), Sergey Puzyrevskiy, at an expert discussion of implementation of the Action Plan (“Road Map”) for “Developing Competition Improving the Antimonopoly Policy” at the Analytical Centre at the Government of the Russian Federation.

Representatives of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, “Skolkovo” Fund, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, “Business Russia”, members of Non-Profit Partnership for Developing Competition and Corporate Counsels Association, practicing lawyers, etc., took part in discussion.

“We are proposing an alternative method to compensate damages to consumers injured by violations of the antimonopoly law that can be in the form of compensation from 1 - 15 % of the value of the purchased goods”, said Sergey Puzyrevskiy.

FAS representatives pointed out that the grounds for redress and compensation would be a fact of violating the antimonopoly law. “If there is a decision of an antimonopoly body, it is a not a bad basis for compensating damages to the injured persons. However, injured persons should not depend on FAS Russia and are fully entitled to file a lawsuit independently”.

Concluding the meeting, Sergey Puzyrevskiy emphasized the importance of discussing the draft Law at the Analytical Centre at the Government of the Russian Federation and asked participants to formulate their proposals and forward them to FAS Russia.