Along with other delegates of Russia’s Competition Day Mariya Nizhnik receives the message that Russian government pledges to support competition and the development of antitrust legislation in every possible way
On June 7-10, 2010, a number of events attended by CIS and EU anti-monopoly authorities and the legal community were held in Suzdal as part of an extended session of the Collegium of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia, devoted to the FAS’s twentieth anniversary (the Competition Day). Meetings of the Interstate Council of Antitrust Policy (ICAP) and the Headquarters for Joint Investigations of Antitrust Law Violations in CIS Member States deserve the highest attention.
A joint session of the ICAP and Non-Commercial Partnership (NP) members entitled “Facilitating Competition Development in CIS Countries” was one of key events to gather a great many CIS top lawyers and anti-monopoly authority heads. The main goal of the session was to find ways to improve the cooperation between NP members and local anti-monopoly authorities and to elaborate recommendations on how to enhance these synergetic efforts and to involve NP members into law-drafting and research operations in their local markets, which task, according to Mariya Nizhnik, a counsellor with Vasil Kisil & Partners Law Firm, has been accomplished.
A meeting of the Headquarters for Joint Investigations of Antitrust Law Violations in CIS Member States, considering major problems faced in competition development at the telecommunication, air carriage, power industry, and retail markets, as well as other markets being of value for consumers, was equally interesting for lawyers from post-Soviet states.
Events attendees shared their expertise and opinions, discussed further plans to build up relations between anti-monopoly authorities and lawyers as to improving antitrust regulations, and enjoyed amenities of the Golden Ring of Russia.
As Mariya Nizhnik, a member of the Non-Commercial Partnership and an active participant of the above events, noted, a mutually beneficial cooperation between the legal/business community and public authorities in antitrust law is evident. “The common objective of public authorities and market players is to perform operations in a sound competitive environment and to develop a fair competition. A feedback and transparent approaches and lines of the government and business, as well as the unbiased assessment of their operations greatly contribute to pursuing the above objective.”
A joint session of the ICAP and Non-Commercial Partnership (NP) members entitled “Facilitating Competition Development in CIS Countries” was one of key events to gather a great many CIS top lawyers and anti-monopoly authority heads. The main goal of the session was to find ways to improve the cooperation between NP members and local anti-monopoly authorities and to elaborate recommendations on how to enhance these synergetic efforts and to involve NP members into law-drafting and research operations in their local markets, which task, according to Mariya Nizhnik, a counsellor with Vasil Kisil & Partners Law Firm, has been accomplished.
A meeting of the Headquarters for Joint Investigations of Antitrust Law Violations in CIS Member States, considering major problems faced in competition development at the telecommunication, air carriage, power industry, and retail markets, as well as other markets being of value for consumers, was equally interesting for lawyers from post-Soviet states.
Events attendees shared their expertise and opinions, discussed further plans to build up relations between anti-monopoly authorities and lawyers as to improving antitrust regulations, and enjoyed amenities of the Golden Ring of Russia.
As Mariya Nizhnik, a member of the Non-Commercial Partnership and an active participant of the above events, noted, a mutually beneficial cooperation between the legal/business community and public authorities in antitrust law is evident. “The common objective of public authorities and market players is to perform operations in a sound competitive environment and to develop a fair competition. A feedback and transparent approaches and lines of the government and business, as well as the unbiased assessment of their operations greatly contribute to pursuing the above objective.”