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Competition and Antitrust regulation

  • Member of the Board – Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation
Member of the Board – Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation Maksim Ermolovich
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18 Apr 2025 Maxim Ermolovich discussed cooperation prospects with antitrust experts The Eurasian Economic Commission's headquarters hosted a working meeting between Maxim Ermolovich, Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation, and the Association of Antitrust Experts (AAE). Maxim Ermolovich shared information on the current directions of the EEC work and competition policy. In 2025, the Commission plans to conduct sectoral market analyses, in particular concerning pharmaceuticals and marketplaces, in order to identify problematic issues in the EAEU cross-border markets and to resolve them subsequently. The opinion of the expert community is important, and the Commission welcomes the participation of the Association of Antitrust Experts in this work of the Commission," mentioned Maxim Ermolovich. Vitaly Dianov, Head of AAE, presented the Association's activities, as well as areas of possible cooperation. He invited the EEC representatives to participate in the Association's events. The participants expressed a unanimous opinion on the need for continued interaction between the Commission and the AAE.
18 Apr 2025 International Conference on EAEU Antitrust Regulation Held in Moscow The Competition and Antitrust Regulation Unit of the Eurasian Economic Commission jointly with the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia organized the International Research-to-Practice Conference "Antitrust Regulation in the Eurasian Economic Union" at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation. "The Competition and Antitrust Regulation Unit is actively engaged in scientific and methodological work aimed at expert elaboration of key topics in the field of supranational antitrust regulation and training of qualified personnel," said Maxim Ermolovich, EEC Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation. At the plenary session of the conference, Maxim Shaskolsky, Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia, and Natalia Vasilevskaya, Deputy Minister of Antitrust Regulation and Trade of the Republic of Belarus, presented the key areas of competition policy implementation at the national level and approaches to cooperation within the EAEU, including the issues of creating a common exchange space and financial market. Alexey Dronov, Chairman of the EAEU Court, spoke about the general principles of the Union's law in competition protection cases. During the session "Enforcement of Norms on Liability for Anticompetitive Behavior in the EAEU: the View of the Regulator, Science and Business," representatives of the Antitrust Regulation Department reported on the interaction between the EEC and national antitrust authorities, as well as on the Commission's sectoral studies. The round table "Prevention of Anticompetitive Violations as a Priority for the Development of Competition Law and Antitrust Control in the EAEU" presented the position of the relevant EEC unit on the issues of improving "soft regulation" and the use of its mechanisms in law enforcement. The conference was attended by judges of the EAEU Court, employees of antitrust authorities of the Union and the Republic of Uzbekistan, entrepreneurs and experts.
28 Mar 2025 Maxim Ermolovich: "Developing exchange trade within the EAEU ensures fair competition and unimpeded mutual supply of goods" At a specialized international forum in Moscow, Maxim Ermolovich, Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation of the Eurasian Economic Commission, urged the exchange business community of the Eurasian Economic Union countries to cooperate actively in the development of regulatory acts to create a common exchange market of the EAEU. The event participants discussed the prospects for developing exchange markets of oil and petroleum products, natural gas, timber, mineral fertilizers, energy carriers, metals and a number of others. "The development of exchange trade in the EAEU space ensures fair competition and creates an institutional environment for seamless, unimpeded mutual supply of goods in the common market of the Union," Maxim Ermolovich noted. The EEC Minister spoke about the Commission's work on the draft Program for developing exchange trading in the common exchange (organized market) of goods within the EAEU. He announced the establishment of the EEC Advisory and Exchange Committees in 2025–2026. The importance of the exchange forum as a discussion platform in developing competition and increasing the transparency of the EAEU economic environment was emphasized. The annual international forum Exchange Commodity Market has been held in Moscow since 2015. It is organized by the St. Petersburg Exchange, the largest commodity exchange in Russia, uniting more than 7,000 companies. The event is positioned as the main expert platform for companies participating in the commodity exchange market, regulators and exchange specialists. 
21 Mar 2025 Maxim Ermolovich: "The pharmaceutical sector study is aimed at ensuring accessibility of medicines for citizens of the EAEU countries On March 21 at the headquarters of the Eurasian Economic Commission, Maxim Ermolovich, EEC Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation, held a working meeting with Alexey Kedrin, Chairman of the Board of the Association of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers of the Eurasian Economic Union. The EEC Minister noted that this year the Commission's Competition and Antitrust Regulation Unit is conducting a large-scale sectoral study aimed at developing competition in the pharmaceutical sector. According to Maxim Ermolovich, "the goal of the pharmaceutical sector study is to reduce barriers, lower the price level and, as a result, ensure the availability of medicines for citizens of the EAEU States". The parties discussed the association's participation in the ongoing study. At the end of the meeting Maxim Ermolovich invited Alexey Kedrin to take part in specialized events of the Eurasian Economic Forum in Minsk in June 2025.
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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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