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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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09 Jul 2025 Maksim Ermolovich presented EEC activities at UN Conference on Competition The Eurasian Commission's delegation headed by Maksim Ermolovich, Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation of the Eurasian Economic Commission, took part in the 9th United Nations Conference to Review All Aspects of the Set of Multilaterally Agreed Equitable Principles and Rules for the Control of Restrictive Business Practices in Geneva. Maksim Ermolovich presented the Commission's activities and its initiative on competition dialogue among regional integration associations at the session “Competition and Regional Economic Organizations”. “During the meetings of regional organizations we discuss relevant matters of competition regulation at the regional level. The results of five meetings held earlier show the demand for such dialogue and the need to expand it,” Maksim Ermolovich mentioned. “As a result, we agreed to conduct a review of competition regulation at the regional level.” On behalf of the dialogue participants, the EEC Minister stated at the Conference the importance of further interaction in this field, the need for regular meetings of regional organizations organized by the Commission, and joint promotion of this topic on international platforms. He also presented the preliminary results of the ongoing review of competition regulation at the regional level. As part of the Conference, the Commission delegation held a meeting with Luz Maria de la Mora, Director of the UNCTAD's Division on International Trade and Commodities, to discuss prospects for further cooperation. The UN Conference is held every five years and is a high-level event on competition issues. Heads of relevant bodies and high-ranking officials from the UN Member States discuss, inter alia, strengthening law enforcement in this field.
09 Jul 2025 Possibilities of access to public procurement for industrial goods manufactured in EAEU expanded The Eurasian Economic Commission's Council has amended the Rules for determining the country of origin of certain types of goods for public (municipal) procurement purposes, approved by the EEC Council in 2020. In particular, the Rules are supplemented with production conditions for pipes, lasers, microdisplays, new commodity names of medical products, optical instruments, components of railway rolling stock and infrastructure, and goods of the chemical industry. It should be noted that this is the second package of amendments in 2025 aimed at expanding the national treatment in public procurement under the preferences, restrictions and bans introduced in the EAEU countries (in May, the Rules were supplemented with 51 commodity names to ensure access to participation in public procurement). The adopted acts will enable the EAEU States' manufacturers to include information about themselves and their goods in the Eurasian Register of Industrial Goods and to participate in public procurement without hindrance. The Rules introduce a unified approach to determining and confirming the country of origin of goods for public procurement purposes. They will help ensure national treatment in public procurement in cases where the State has established preferences for domestic suppliers or imposed restrictions on foreign goods. The amendments shall come into effect after 30 calendar days have elapsed from the date of official publication of the EEC Council's decision. On the Commission's website in the section dedicated to the Department for Competition and Public Procurement Policy, there is the Frequently Asked Questions tab, providing reference information on the procedure for the inclusion of information on a product and its manufacturer in the Eurasian Register of Industrial Goods and the Commission's actions to review a request on including such information.
Procedure for subordinate transfer of confidential information by Commission simplified 09 Jul 2025 Procedure for subordinate transfer of confidential information by Commission simplified The Eurasian Economic Commission's Council has amended the Procedure for handling restricted documents in the EEC. This document deals, inter alia, with competition and antitrust regulation within the Eurasian Economic Union. Any confidential information that may be contained in an application for violation of the general rules of competition or investigation in this respect will now be communicated to the Member States' competition authorities upon the decision of the relevant Minister of the Commission. Previously, such a decision was adopted by the EEC Board, which did not always allow the materials to be promptly transferred to the EAEU countries' antitrust authorities. This slowed down the process of responding to signs of violation of the Union's competition law. The procedure for protecting confidential information is ensured by the Agreement dated 2014 on the procedure for protecting confidential information and liability for its disclosure in exercise of the Commission's powers to control compliance with the general rules of competition. The transfer of materials by jurisdiction is envisaged by the paragraph of the Protocol on General Principles and Rules of Competition (Annex No. 19 to the Treaty on the EAEU).
03 Jul 2025 EEC and ASEAN shared experience in competition On July 3, representatives of the Eurasian Economic Commission's Competition Unit and ASEAN shared their experience in the field of competition at the online seminar "Competition Policy and Enforcement in the EAEU and ASEAN". The event was attended by Maxim Ermolovich, the EEC Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation. He noted that the Commission's cooperation with the ASEAN Secretariat and Experts Group on Competition is consistent and beneficial to both parties. "We are interested in ASEAN experience. Attention should be paid to the ASEAN competition policy assessment system, involving calculation of country-specific indices showing perceptions of competition by business community and organizations. Also of interest is the unified portal for assessing the consequences of mergers and acquisitions," emphasized Maxim Ermolovich. The seminar moderator Armine Hakobyan, Deputy Director of the EEC Department of Competition and Public Procurement Policy, informed the participants about the work in the field of competition policy, competition advocacy and international cooperation. Sergei Maximov, Director of the EEC Antitrust Regulation Department, spoke about the experience of the Eurasian Economic Commission in controlling compliance with the general rules of competition. In turn, the participants were welcomed by Ly Sopoirvichny, Chair of the ASEAN Experts Group on Competition and Independent Commissioner of the Competition Commission of Cambodia. The event was attended by representatives of ASEAN national competition authorities and the EEC Competition and Antitrust Unit.  
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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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