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FAS Russia
supports the initiative to internationally establish the
Global Competition Day
Federal Antimonopoly Service, Russia, December 06, 2010
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On 5th December
2010, the international community for the first
time celebrated the Global Competition Day. This
day in 1980 the United Nations General Assembly
adopted the United Nations Set on competition
policy to establish the global framework for
regulating violations of competition. Recently, at
the 6th UN Conference marking the anniversary of
adopting the UN Set, the International Network of
Civil Society on Competition (INCSOC) proposed to
observe this day for the first time in 2010.
Supporting this
initiative at the national level will help
establish the Global Competition Day
internationally under the auspices of the United
Nations. FAS Russia gladly responded to the
initiative in order to increase public awareness
on the issues of competition policy and
enforcement.
This year the
Global Competition Day focused on “air cargo
cartels”, which many industrially developed
countries have recently penalized by imposing
multi-billion fines upon the main global air cargo
carriers. Unfortunately developing countries have
not initiated any single case (except the South
African Republic) against the cartel members,
although businesses and ordinary consumers in
developing countries have incurred considerable
damages from the cartel’s operations.
Specially to mark
the Global Competition Day, Pradeep Mehta, the
INCSOC Chairman and the Secretary General of CUTS
International, a non-government organization which
actively interacts with the world competition
community, wrote an article about the global air
cargo cartel.
In its turn, FAS
Russia finds it necessary to inform the public
about the situation with developing competition in
air transportation markets for domestic Russian
routes as well as the findings of the analysis of
the market for air transportation between the CIS
member-states, completed within the framework of
the Interstate Council for the Antimonopoly Policy
(ICAP).
ICAP has drafted
proposals for developing competition on the market
in question, which are approved by the Heads of
Government of the CIS and currently are being
implemented.
This news can also be viewed at: http://en.fas.gov.ru/
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