OREANDA-NEWS. November 06, 2014. The Corporate Rosatom Academy held a workshop on the “Pressing Issues and the Prospects of Developing the Markets of Electric Power and Capacity” where Deputy Head of FAS, Anatoly Golomolzin, presented a new book “Antimonopoly Control in the Field of Electric Power Industry”.

Attendees included Deputy General Director – Sales Director of “Rosenergoatom Concern” OJSC, Alexander Khvalko; Director for Power Supply and Commercial Dispatching Control, “Rosenergoatom Concern” OJSC, Andrey Polozov; and Deputy Head of FAS Department for Control over Electric Power Industry, Dmitry Vasiliev. Other participants included the heads and experts of medium and large consumers of electric power as well as generating and power supply companies and other market participants.

The “Antimonopoly Control in the Field of Electric Power Industry” research-and-practice textbook highlights the basic approaches to antimonopoly regulation and control in the electric power industry in the Russian Federation. It describes the established legal positions of antimonopoly and judicial bodies on antimonopoly disputes on the wholesale and retail markets of electric power (capacity). The materials included in the book are meant for officers of the government authorities, participants of the wholesale and retail markets of electric power (capacity), and are of interest for the academic community, and the persons interested in the issues of antimonopoly regulation and control.

“The book outlines the general principles of the national antimonopoly policy in the electric power industry, and gives the basic understanding of the main concepts of the antimonopoly law and the law on electric power industry. It popularizes the procedures of administering the antimonopoly law, particularly, the powers of the antimonopoly bodies, the procedures of preventive and suppressive antimonopoly control, initiating and considering cases on violations of the antimonopoly law, and considers the issues of civil law, administrative and criminal liability for violating the antimonopoly law, appealing decisions of the antimonopoly bodies. It also gives summary comments on the antimonopoly enforcement practice and brief descriptions of around 300 particular cases investigated by the antimonopoly bodies, particularly, as extracts from decisions of antimonopoly bodies and judicial rulings. The book presents the entire topology of antimonopoly violations in the electric power industry and gives statistical data on the number of violations exposed by the antimonopoly bodies in 2007 - 2013”, pointed out Anatoly Golomolzin.