On June 26, Director of the BRICS Competition Centre Alexey Ivanov spoke at the session on New Challenges and Modern Solutions in Antimonopoly Regulation, which was held as part of the XII St. Petersburg International Legal Forum.
The existence and development of a diverse market economy is based on protecting competition, ensuring competitive market relations, and preventing monopolistic activity. In 2024, the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service is celebrating its twentieth anniversary. It is difficult to overestimate the antimonopoly service’s importance as a key component of Russia’s public, political, and social life. Over the past 20 years, Russia has created and developed the foundations needed to protect competition: legislation on antimonopoly activities, government procurements, state defence procurements, advertising, trade, tariffs, and foreign investment in strategic industries. Antimonopoly requirements have also been introduced into industry-specific legislation.
Leading questions for panelists:
- What challenges do the antimonopoly authorities face today amidst economic transformations and the growing influence of technology and innovation?
- How effective are the existing antimonopoly response measures, taking into account the experience that the antimonopoly authorities have accumulated over the years of their operation?
- What prospects exist for the development of new enforcement tools that can increase the efficiency of providing competitive conditions in the Russian Federation and abroad?
Moderator:
- Andrey Tsyganov, Deputy Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS of Russia)
Speakers:
- Sergey Belyakov, Managing Director, Ozon;
- Alexey Ivanov, Director, HSE – Skolkovo Institute for Law and Development, International BRICS Competition Law and Policy Centre, National Research University Higher School of Economics;
- Sergey Puzyrevsky, Secretary of State – Deputy Head, Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation (FAS Russia);
- Ahmed Khatab, Judge, Deputy Head, Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA);
- Svetlana Guz, Managing Partner, LEGAL to BUSINESS;
- Aleksey Dukhanin, Executive Director, Wildberries;
- Olga Korolkova, Deputy Director, Department for Antitrust Regulation, Eurasian Economic Commission;
- Sergey Lisovsky, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation for the Protection of Competition;
- Hardin Ratshisusu, Deputy Commissioner, Competition Commission of the South African Republic;
- Irina Filatova, Member of the Committee State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Competition Committee.