{"title":"Antitrust Compliance in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Problems and Prospects of Implementation","authors":"M. А. Sdvizhkov","doi":"10.47361/2542-0259-2021-4-28-52-59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47361/2542-0259-2021-4-28-52-59","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the background of legislative consolidation and the main problems of the introduction by pharmaceutical companies of a new legal institution for the prevention of violations of antimonopoly legislation — antimonopoly compliance, introduced by Federal Law No. 33-FL of March 1, 2020.The definition of the concept and a brief description of the current state and trends in the development of the pharmaceutical industry in connection with the relations of competition are given.The necessity of introducing antimonopoly compliance by pharmaceutical companies as a relatively independent part of pharmaceutical compliance as the most general (universal) tool for self-prevention of any offenses by the company itself and all its employees in connection with official activities is substantiated.The main antimonopoly risks associated with the implementation of pharmaceutical companies’ economic activities are named. Typical examples of violations of antimonopoly legislation by pharmaceutical companies are considered.The results of a sample survey of pharmaceutical industry representatives conducted by the author on their attitude to the introduction of antimonopoly compliance are presented.Proposals have been formulated to amend the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation in order to create additional incentives for the implementation of antimonopoly compliance.","PeriodicalId":250547,"journal":{"name":"Russian competition law and economy","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121326221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Antimonopoly Compliance: Review of Foreign Practice. Part I","authors":"M. Drozd","doi":"10.47361/2542-0259-2021-4-28-60-67","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47361/2542-0259-2021-4-28-60-67","url":null,"abstract":"The article contains the best foreign practices of implementing the of antimonopoly compliance Institute (compliance) in order to identify and manage the risks of violations of competition law and the possibility of preventing these violations by companies. The article presents the definition of compliance, describes the experience of foreign competition authorities in development, organization and implementation of compliance programs. Special attention is paid to the potential benefits that business receives as part of the successful implementation of the antimonopoly compliance system, including the possibility of mitigating circumstance in case a company commits an antimonopoly offense.","PeriodicalId":250547,"journal":{"name":"Russian competition law and economy","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131648514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Price Regulation and Risk Management of Tariff Imbalancing in the Electric Power Industry: Actual Metodological Problems of Regulation","authors":"I. Redkin, M. Zaitsev","doi":"10.47361/2542-0259-2021-4-28-46-51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47361/2542-0259-2021-4-28-46-51","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":250547,"journal":{"name":"Russian competition law and economy","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121199154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Problems of Application of Certain Antimonopoly Banks in the Implementation of the Activities of Trading Chains","authors":"Yu. Fedorov","doi":"10.47361/2542-0259-2021-4-28-18-25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47361/2542-0259-2021-4-28-18-25","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":250547,"journal":{"name":"Russian competition law and economy","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130713425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"State Control over Intra-Group Transactions of Assets of a Strategic Entity","authors":"V. Mazurenko","doi":"10.47361/2542-0259-2021-4-28-26-33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47361/2542-0259-2021-4-28-26-33","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the current legal mechanism for monitoring the implementation of intra-group transactions and other actions within the framework of economic concentration; the possibility of applying the appropriate procedure when exercising state control over foreign investments in strategic business companies.The analysis of regulatory legal acts and international practice allowed the author to conclude that the introduction (by analogy with the Law on the Protection of Competition) of a notification procedure for a foreign investor to make transactions with assets of a strategic business company will not correspond to the objectives of control over foreign investments. In that connection the existing preliminary control seems to be the most effective.","PeriodicalId":250547,"journal":{"name":"Russian competition law and economy","volume":"297 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124739572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Competition of Tariff Regulation Models: Results of a Critical Analysis of the Draft Federal Law “On the Foundations of State Regulation of Prices (Tariffs)”","authors":"I. Bashlakov-Nikolaev","doi":"10.47361/2542-0259-2021-4-28-34-45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47361/2542-0259-2021-4-28-34-45","url":null,"abstract":"The key aspects of the draft federal law “On the fundamentals of state regulation of prices (tariffs)” submitted by FAS Russia to the Government of the Russian Federation on June 8, 2021 following the discussion of this draft law by the working group on the implemen- tation of the “regulatory guillotine” mechanism were considered.This draft law is an attempt to form the general part of the tariff legislation of the Russian Federation.The article also discusses an alternative model for regulating issues related to the setting of prices (tariffs) — the codification of tariff legislation, which would take into account both general and specific or industry-specific components of tariff regulation.As the most preferable solution to the problems considered in the article, the author proposes the simultaneous codification of competitive and tariff regulation, the result of which should be the simultaneous adoption of the Competition Code and the Tariff Code of the Russian Federation.","PeriodicalId":250547,"journal":{"name":"Russian competition law and economy","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132012046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Year's Address of the State Secretary — Deputy Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service S.A. Puzyrevsky to Readers, Authors and Members of the Editorial Board of the Journal “Russian Competition Law and Economy”","authors":"S. А. Puzyrevskiy","doi":"10.47361/2542-0259-2021-4-28-6-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47361/2542-0259-2021-4-28-6-7","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>.</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":250547,"journal":{"name":"Russian competition law and economy","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116125921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The concept and evaluation methods of cartels and other anticompetitive agreements latency","authors":"K. K. Batanova","doi":"10.47361/2542-0259-2021-3-27-46-54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47361/2542-0259-2021-3-27-46-54","url":null,"abstract":"The author examines the question of crime latency and cartels and other anti-competitive agreements latency at the interface of forensic science and competition law, presents evaluation methods of cartels and other anti-competitive agreements latency taking into account their pros and cons, suggests the definition of cartels and other anti-competitive agreements latency.","PeriodicalId":250547,"journal":{"name":"Russian competition law and economy","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115684071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Control of a foreign investor over a Russian strategic economic company: the admissibility of indirect evidence in law enforcement","authors":"A. V. Popkov, V. S. Sanguliya","doi":"10.47361/2542-0259-2021-3-27-90-95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47361/2542-0259-2021-3-27-90-95","url":null,"abstract":"The key issues that arise when determining the signs of establishing control by a foreign investor over strategic companies are considered, as well as the issue of using indirect evidence when establishing the fact of the presence (absence) of such control.The classification of evidence of control is given, the judicial practice on the issue of evaluating the arguments of the antimonopoly authority and other persons when justifying the presence (absence) of control of a foreign investor over a Russian company engaged in a strategic type of activity is considered.It is concluded that it is inappropriate to legislate a closed list of grounds for a foreign investor’s control over a Russian strategic company in Federal Law № 57.","PeriodicalId":250547,"journal":{"name":"Russian competition law and economy","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124706024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"State and municipal preferences: impact on competition","authors":"I. P. Bochinin","doi":"10.47361/2542-0259-2021-3-27-84-89","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47361/2542-0259-2021-3-27-84-89","url":null,"abstract":"The article considers the institute of state and municipal from the point of view of its impact on competition. Based on the analysis of the legislation and practice of making decisions by the antimonopoly bodies on giving consent to the granting of state or municipal preferences, studying the experience of the European Union, it is concluded that there is a threat of restricting competition even if the antimonopoly body agrees to grant preferences. The importance of the antimonopoly body's assessment of the proportion of positive and negative consequences of such provision of preferences is noted.","PeriodicalId":250547,"journal":{"name":"Russian competition law and economy","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125458866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}