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Member of the Board – Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation Maksim Yermalovich
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02 Sep 2024 Uzbekistan shows interest in developing dialogue with EEC in public procurement Representatives of the Eurasian Economic Commission's Department for Competition and Public Procurement Policy and experts from the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Republic of Uzbekistan held an online discussion on the prospects for cooperation in public procurement within the Eurasian Economic Union. During the meeting, Zhanar Adikova, Director of the Department, briefed the Uzbek colleagues on the basic principles in the public (municipal) procurement stipulated by the Union's law, as well as the Commission's role in some issues of public procurement regulation in the EAEU countries. Following the meeting, representatives of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Uzbekistan expressed interest in continuing and deepening the dialogue, as well as discussing issues of mutual participation in public procurement. In turn, Armine Hakobyan, Deputy Director of the Department, invited the Uzbek colleagues to continue the dialogue at the upcoming Eurasian Economic Forum to be held on September 30 – October 1 in Yerevan, as well as suggested possible areas of further cooperation in the field of public procurement.
12 Aug 2024 Maksim Ermolovich: "The development of competition in the EAEU should receive scientific and educational support from the Union countries' leading universities" Maksim Ermolovich, Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation of the Eurasian Economic Commission, held a meeting with Prof. Alexander Auzan, Doctor of Economics, Dean of the Faculty of Economics at Lomonosov Moscow State University. Maksim Ermolovich emphasized the importance of scientific support for competition development based on the research conducted in this area by leading world scientists and key universities of the Eurasian Economic Union countries, including MSU. Alexander Auzan shared his opinion on the impact of cultural codes of the EAEU States' economies on the development of competition in the Union. He noted that the impact of artificial intelligence on the modern world and the global economy transformation will be at least as extensive as one of the Internet was. The sides discussed the prospects of interaction between the EAEU, SCO and BRICS, as well as the development of the global economy. An agreement was reached to establish a permanent dialog between MSU scientists dealing with competition issues and personnel of the Commission's relevant unit.
24 Jul 2024 Sergei Maximov appointed Director of EEC Department for Antitrust Regulation Sergei Maximov was born in 1961 in Omsk. He graduated from the Omsk Higher Police School of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, then completed a postgraduate course at the same institution and a doctoral program at the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR (Russian Federation). Doctor of Law, Professor. From 1983 to 2005, he was a law enforcement officer. He was a postgraduate student, researcher and senior lecturer at the Criminal Law Department of the Omsk Higher Police School of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, doctoral student at the Academy of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia), professor at the Criminal Law and Criminology Department of the Moscow Institute of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Criminology Department of the Moscow University of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. From 2006 to 2018 Sergei Maximov was a Leading Researcher and Head of the Sector of Criminal Law, Criminology and Justice Problems of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 2008–2010: Head of the Legal Support and Licensing Department of the Federal Service for Supervision of Healthcare. 2010–2015: Deputy Head of the Legal Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia. 2015–2016: Director of the Department for Competition and Public Procurement Policy of the Eurasian Economic Commission. 2016–2024: Assistant and Adviser to the Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service. Since 2015, he has been Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the problems of protection and development of competition; since 2016, Editor-in-Chief of the Russian Competition Law and Economy research and practice journal; since 2023, Deputy Chairman of the Intellectual Property Commission of the Association of Lawyers of Russia. He is the author of more than 400 scientific and methodological works on competition, administrative and criminal law. On July 22, 2024, Sergei Maximov was appointed Director of the EEC Department for Antitrust Regulation.
Decisions of the EEC Board fining violators 24 Jul 2024 Decisions of the EEC Board fining violators According to the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Belarus and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, fines for violations of the general rules of competition in cross-border markets of the Eurasian Economic Union have been paid. By its Decision dated July 7, 2020, the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission recognized Sergei Puzynya, Director of Asomedica Co.Ltd (Belarus), as a party to an anticompetitive agreement. Companies selling medical equipment, including Asomedica Co.Ltd, agreed to sell speech processors of cochlear implantation systems manufactured by Cochlear Europe each in its own territory. Hence, consumers were deprived of the opportunity to choose goods at a more favorable price as well as to receive warranty and post-warranty service from a wider range of suppliers of these products. By its decision dated November 21, 2023, the EEC Board recognized the actions of Bryuts N LLC (Belarus) as an act of unfair competition. The company misled consumers about its affiliation with the well-known Russian chain of hookah establishments HOOKAH PLACE by using a trademark similar to that of the Russian chain. Bryuts N LLC and the director of Asomedica Co.Ltd Sergei Puzynya were fined a total of over 700,000 rubles. On August 2, 2022, the Decision of the EEC Board recognized as an act of unfair competition the actions of Metallotekhnika LLC (Russia) and its director Evgeny Tarasov, as well as the director of Metalloobrabotka LLC (Russia) Valeria Abrosimova. They misled consumers as to the nature, method and place of production, consumer properties or as to the manufacturer of steel pipe cutting equipment, using in their names the Orbita designation, the exclusive rights to which belong to Avtogen-M LLC (Armenia). The said persons were fined a total of more than 800,000 rubles. In accordance with the EAEU legislation, fines for violations of competition rules are paid to the budget of the state in whose territory the economic entity that committed the offense is registered.
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09/04/2024 12:00:00 am Решение Коллегии ЕЭК № 105 О Порядке совершения таможенных операций, связанных с получением и оформлением разрешения таможенного органа на вывоз с таможенной территории Евразийского экономического союза товаров электронной торговли, приобретенных физическими лицами
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09/04/2024 12:00:00 am Решение Коллегии ЕЭК № 104 О внесении изменений в Решение Комиссии Таможенного союза от 20 сентября 2010 г. № 378
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09/04/2024 12:00:00 am Решение Коллегии ЕЭК № 103 О признании утратившими силу некоторых решений Комиссии Таможенного союза и Коллегии Евразийской экономической комиссии
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09/04/2024 12:00:00 am Распоряжение Коллегии ЕЭК № 138 О проекте решения Совета Евразийской экономической комиссии «О внесении изменений в Решение Совета Евразийской экономической комиссии от 23 сентября 2022 г. № 140»
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09/04/2024 12:00:00 am Распоряжение Коллегии ЕЭК № 137 О проекте решения Совета Евразийской экономической комиссии «О проекте распоряжения Евразийского межправительственного совета «О некоторых вопросах гармонизации законодательства государств – членов Евразийского экономического союза в области гражданской авиации»

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24 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 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 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 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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