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EEC Council changed Methodology for assessing the state of competition in EAEU transboundary markets
By the Decision of the Eurasian Economic Commission’s Council, amendments were made to the Methodology for assessing the state of competition in transboundary markets of the Eurasian Economic Union (approved by Decision No. 7 of the Commission’s Council dated January 30, 2013).
The changes affected the calculation of the commodity market volume and the shares of economic entities when investigating signs of individual violations. Now, when preparing an analytical report as part of assessing the state of competition, a wider range of indicators can be used to determine the commodity market volume, the shares of economic entities and criteria for classifying the market as a transboundary one.
Besides, in addition to national classifiers of the participating countries’ economic activities, the amendments will enable using the EAEU Unified Commodity Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activity as a source of information when determining goods and their interchangeability (EAEU CN of FEA).
It is expected that the adopted amendments will enable simplifying the procedures for assessing the state of competition in the EAEU transboundary markets (for some compositions), expanding the range of tools being used and more fully reflect the information used for the assessment.
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The calculation of commodity market volume and shares of economic entities is excluded when investigating signs of "horizontal" agreements and coordinating economic activity which lead to such consequences as establishing or maintaining prices, dividing the commodity market, reducing or terminating the manufacture of goods, since these compositions are not associated with the need to determine the economic entity shares, as, for example, in case of abuse of a dominant position, if required.
