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Member of the Board – Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation Maksim Ermolovich
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19 Jun 2025 Interaction and exchange of experience in competition discussed by EEC and Myanmar Armine Hakobyan, Deputy Director of the Department for Competition and Public Procurement Policy of the Eurasian Economic Commission, presented the EEC activities in the field of competition policy at the meeting of the joint working group on interaction between the Commission and the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. The meeting was held as part of the St. Petersburg Economic Forum. Myanmar reported that, following the entry into force of Myanmar's Competition Law in 2017, it established the Competition Commission that gained considerable experience to date and took its rightful place in the government system. Myanmar is interested in cooperating with similar agencies of the EAEU states and the EEC competition unit. "The Myanmar Competition Commission comprises representatives from various ministries and agencies. For us, this is an interesting, unusual approach to the structure of a competition authority. It is certainly useful for us to familiarize ourselves with its work," Armine Hakobyan noted. The meeting participants addressed organizational issues of interaction, as well as cooperation in other key economic areas in accordance with the previously concluded Memorandum between the Eurasian Economic Commission and the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.
16 Jun 2025 Maxim Ermolovich: "Creation of a common exchange market for commodities within the EAEU will increase the level of economic interaction in the Five countries" Maxim Ermolovich, Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation of the Eurasian Economic Commission, participated in the annual general meeting of the International Association of Exchanges. The issues of exchange trade development were discussed, as well as the initiative to create the Inter-exchange Union of the SCO countries. EEC Minister reported on the preparation of the program for developing exchange trading in the common exchange (organized market) of goods within the Eurasian Economic Union. "Implementation of the program will require harmonizing the regulatory and legal framework of the Member States, unifying exchange trading rules, eliminating barriers and restrictions, as well as developing exchange infrastructure," Maxim Ermolovich noted. The Commission attaches great importance to the creation of a common exchange market for the Union's commodities in terms of promoting competition and improving pricing efficiency.  The event was attended by representatives of exchanges from the CIS, Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. The International Association of Exchanges (IAE) was established in Moscow in 2000 for coordinated efforts to develop organized financial and commodity markets in accordance with international standards. The IAE comprises 16 leading financial and commodity exchanges from nine CIS countries, including the EAEU States.
10 Jun 2025 Maksim Ermolovich: “The EEC develops mechanisms to ensure fair competition within the EAEU” The Eurasian Economic Commission's delegation headed by Maksim Ermolovich, the EEC Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation, took part in the Antitrust Forum-2025 in Moscow, organized by the Federal Antimonopoly Service and the Association of Antitrust Experts. At the plenary session Maksim Ermolovich presented the EEC main achievements in the field of competition, key amendments to the competition law of the Eurasian Economic Union, as well as certain aspects of the Commission's sectoral market studies. The interaction between the Unit and national competition authorities, and perspective directions of the EEC's activities in the field of competition were considered. “The Competition Unit attaches great importance to strengthening interaction with the professional community, exchange of experience and discussion of relevant matters of competition policy. All this contributes to creating efficient legal and institutional mechanisms for ensuring fair competition within the EAEU,” the EEC Minister emphasized. Maksim Ermolovich has outlined that the EEC today has all the necessary tools to maintain a competitive environment within the Eurasian Economic Union: the law enforcement practice has been formed, and there is a constant process of improving the competition law. “We work to expand the Commission's presence in transboundary markets, as well as to raise awareness among economic operators of the principles and rules of competition in them,” the EEC Minister noted.  
03 Jun 2025 Dinara Mukaeva appointed Deputy Director of EEC Antitrust Regulation Department Dinara Mukaeva was born in 1987 in Almaty Region, Kazakhstan. She graduated from Abay Kazakh National Pedagogical University with a degree in International Law. In 2008-2020, she held various positions in antitrust authorities of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In 2020-2022, she headed the Anti-Cartel Office of the Agency for Protection and Development of Competition of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In 2022-2025, she headed the territorial Department of the Agency for Protection and Development of Competition of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the Abay Region. She is an awardee of the badge of the Republic of Kazakhstan "Excellence in Antimonopoly Service". Since May 28, 2025 she was appointed Deputy Director of Antitrust Regulation Department of the Eurasian Economic Commission.
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05/25/2021 12:00:00 am Рекомендация Коллегии ЕЭК № 9 Об обзоре «Конкурентное (антимонопольное) регулирование на цифровых рынках»
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03/05/2021 12:00:00 am Решение Совета ЕЭК № 28 Об утверждении Порядка вынесения предостережения о недопустимости совершения действий, которые могут привести к нарушению общих правил конкуренции на трансграничных рынках государств – членов Евразийского экономического союза
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06/30/2020 12:00:00 am Распоряжение Коллегии ЕЭК № 83 О внесении изменений в состав Консультативного комитета по конкурентной политике, антимонопольному регулированию и государственному ценовому регулированию
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06/23/2020 12:00:00 am Распоряжение Коллегии ЕЭК № 75 О составе Консультативного комитета по государственным (муниципальным) закупкам
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10/08/2019 12:00:00 am Решение Коллегии ЕЭК № 168 О Консультативном комитете по государственным (муниципальным) закупкам

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24 Feb 2021 EAEU to master new methods for regulating digital markets - EEC Minister The Eurasian Economic Commission constantly improves working conditions of the EAEU business, and sophisticating the antitrust regulation mechanisms is one of the directions thereto. As the EEC has suggested during the Antitrust Forum held on February 18, the Eurasian Union needs new approaches to antitrust compliance since the existing norms have not been brought to unified standards. The issue also concerns digital markets, the development of which has been intensified in response to the pandemic and restrictions accompanying it. Arman Shakkaliev, Member of the Board – Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation of the Commission, has told in his interview to "Eurasia.Expert” about measures the EEC now uses to protect competition as well as changes it prepares.
24 Feb 2021 "It is up to the business community to define the EEC agenda, and we should hear the business community" Published in the "Competition and Law" Magazine No. 1, 2021 The Eurasian Economic Commission’s Antitrust Unit was one of the main news-makers in the field of competition protection last year. The regulator's plans are large-scale as well: to control anticompetitive digital practices, to elaborate specialized guidelines, to expand the EEC's powers to companies from third countries and to introduce a compliance system at the supranational level as well as interactive format for interaction with business. What are the main outcomes of the Unit’s work in 2020? And what are the objectives set for 2021? Arman Abaevich Shakkaliev, Member of the Board – EEC Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation, reports. About "digital" antitrust regulation.
03 Feb 2021 Interview with Arman Shakkaliev, EEC Minister in charge of Competition Highlights - International roaming will be canceled within the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) by 2025. Russian citizens will be able to use home tariff plan in Kazakhstan, Armenia and other Union countries.
14 Dec 2016 The interview of the Minister on the technical regulation of the EEC Valery Koreshkov with BELTA news agency on establishment of the common market of medicines in the Eurasian Economic Union Medicines is the first group of specific goods, with which the EAEU countries started to work closely by the beginning of the functioning of the common market. Using this experience, the EAEU will form other common markets - for finances, energy, oil and gas, and so on. The BELTA journalist discussed with the EEC Board Member - Minister in charge of technical regulation Valery Koreshkov, what stages are yet to be covered and how the common market of medicines will work.​
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