On April 9-11, the BRICS Competition Centre together with the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia held an International Roundtable on "Antimonopoly Regulation in the Digital Economy" in Kazan.
The event brought together representatives of competition authorities of the BRICS+ countries and international organizations, as well as business representatives, legal practitioners and academics. The experts discussed the challenges facing antitrust regulation in the digital era. The roundtable focused on the problems of regulating the marketplaces, identifying and combating digital cartels, and improving antimonopoly legislation in the digital economy (5th Antimonopoly Package).
On Thursday, April 11, a Meeting of the BRICS+ Working Group for the Research of Competition Issues in Digital Markets was held.
Speakers:
- Rustam Nigmatullin, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan;
- Maxim Shaskolsky, Head of the FAS Russia (online);
- Andrey Tsyganov, Deputy Head of the FAS Russia;
- Teresa Moreira, Head of the Competition and Consumer Policies Branch at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (online);
- Aggrey Mlimuka, Chairman of the Fair Competition Commission (Tanzania);
- Zhang Fan, Expert, Antimonopoly Department II, State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) of the People's Republic of China (online);
- Rowan Wael Aziz, Economic Researcher at the Egyptian Competition Authority (online);
- Itumeleng Lesofe, Expert of the Competition Commission of South Africa (online);
- Zhandos Smatov, Director of the Investigations Department of the Agency for Protection and Development of Competition (Republic of Kazakhstan);
- Ninnart Gerdlarppon, Head of the Investigation Development Sub-division of the Trade Competition Commission of Thailand
and others.