Antimonopoly regulation
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Pepeliaev Group advises that, on 5 March 2024, draft law No. 568223-8 has been put before the State Duma. It provides for the unified legal regulation of marketplaces’ business.
On 29 February 2024 a draft federal law was put before the State Duma which proposes removing from the Law on Protecting Competition the provisions that make possible identifying that a self-employed individual holds a dominant position, clarifying the procedure for identifying a monopolistically low price of a product and changing the procedure for how state control is exercised over economic concentration.
On 18 October 2023 the draft law “On amending the Federal Law “On protecting competition" was published for public discussion on the federal portal of drafts of legal and regulatory instruments.
On 10 July 2023, the Russian President signed Federal Law No. 301-FZ “On amending the Federal Law “On Protecting Competition”, which is a part of the ‘fifth package of antitrust amendments’.
In its Resolution dated 19 April 2023, the Russian Constitutional Court held that income in article 178 “Restriction of competition” of the Russian Criminal Code is understood mean a contract price without it being reduced by any costs.
On 30 March 2023 the Russian Constitutional Court issued a Resolution that acknowledges that article 11(8) of the Law on Protecting Competition complies with the Russian Constitution, and terminated the proceedings in the case with respect to article 17(1)(1) of the Law on Protecting Competition, since this provision cannot be treated as violating the Claimants’ constitutional rights.
On 10 November, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a draft law that discloses for the first time the concept of a "network effect" and also contains provisions aimed at combating the abuse of a dominant position on digital markets, improving the procedure for monitoring economic concentration, regulating the procedure for an expert examination by the antimonopoly authority, as well as a number of other new developments.