OREANDA-NEWS. July 29, 2014. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) found that the Urals Office of State Highway Control of the Federal Service for Transport Surveillance violated the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition” (Part 3 Article 15) by assigning the function of testing subscriber telematic terminals to economic entities.

The FAS Commission established that regional Office of Rostrnasnadzor had failed to independently exercise the function for testing GLONASS-based transport-tracking subscriber telematic terminals to verify compliance with the requirements, and used results of the testing conducted by economic entities.

“Restricting competition by the authorities that transfer their function to economic entities is a pretty wide-spread case. The FAS objective is to prevent and suppress anticompetitive intervention in market performance, remove administrative barriers and support entrepreneurship”, pointed out Deputy Head of FAS, Alexei Dotsenko.

Under Clause 5 of No.20 Order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation “On Approving the Procedures for Equipping the Means of Transport in Operation, Including Special Means of Transport, M Category, Used for Commercial Passenger Transportation, and N Category, Used for Transportation of Dangerous Goods, with GLONASS or GLONASS/GPS Satellite Navigation Hardware”, the function for testing hardware-software devices for determining vehicle current location and movement parameters, interacting with the automated control centre of the Federal Service for Transport Surveillance (subscriber telematic terminals) is assigned to regional Offices of the Federal Service for Transport Surveillance.

Subscriber telematic terminals – hardware-software devices that determine vehicle current location and movement parameters, interacting with the automated control centre of the Federal Service for Transport Surveillance.