OREANDA-NEWS. September 04, 2014. FAS Expert Council for developing competition in retail had a meeting with participation of representatives of FAS, the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Industry and Trade, Moscow Department for Trade and Services, representatives of retail trade market participants, non-government organizations and legal firms.

In the first part the Expert Council discussed measures and approaches to coordinating efforts in order to deter unreasonable price growth.

Summing up the discussion, the Expert Council recommended trading networks and organizations to promptly submit information to FAS regional Offices and the Central Office of FAS Russia about any sharp increase of prices for food product sto verify whether it complies with the antimonopoly law.

The second part of the meeting focused on the problems of developing competition in retail and proposals to resolve them. Then Head of FAS Department for Control over Social Sphere and Trade, Timophei Nizhegorodtsev, made a presentation on the experience of enforcement of the law on trading activities in the Russian Federation and prospective developments in the regulation of this field.