Competition is the basis for a market economy and a willing of society to develop, both within national boundaries and on a global scale. This principle is enshrined in the Russian Constitution and permeates key international legal documents.
In 2024, the FAS Russia celebrates its 20th anniversary. The importance of antimonopoly policy as an essential component of the public, political and social life of our state cannot be overestimated. Over the past 20 years, Russia has developed a stable framework for the protection of competition.
A momentous recent development was the adoption of the “fifth antimonopoly package”, which came into force on September 1, 2023 and is aimed at adapting antitrust regulation to the digital economy.
The globalization of markets has literally internationalized competition work – the investigation of the vast majority of antitrust cases and the assessment of mergers and acquisitions require either bilateral or multilateral cooperation with other countries, and the rapid evolution of antitrust doctrine is exclusively international.
The antitrust cooperation track has become common within most international organizations and associations with the participation of our country: CIS, EAEU, BRICS, SCO, APEC, UNCTAD – all of them pay great attention to the protection and development of competition in global markets.
The year of 2024 marked the year of Russia's chairmanship in the CIS and BRICS. A significant number of events were held under the auspices of the Russian Chairmanship, including in the antitrust sphere, contributing to the expansion of existing joint projects and launching new initiatives.
Participants of the plenary session are invited to discuss the challenges that competition authorities face today in the context of economic transformation and the increasing influence of technology and innovation, to assess the effectiveness of existing antimonopoly response measures taking into account the experience accumulated over the years of competition authorities' activities, to discuss the prospects for the development of new enforcement tools aimed at improving the efficiency of competition promotion in Russia and abroad, and to identify the most effective mechanisms for the development
of international cooperation between competition authorities.
MODERATOR: Sergey Puzyrevsky, Stats Secretary – Deputy Head of the FAS Russia
PARTICIPANTS:- Nikita Anisimov, Rector of the National Research University Higher School of Economics;
- Maxim Shaskolsky, Head of the FAS Russia;
- Marat Omarov, Chairman of the Agency for Protection and Development of Competition of the Republic of Kazakhstan (tbc);
- Iskandar Ismail, Chief Executive Officer, Malaysia Competition Commission;
- Dmitry Makhonin, Governor of the Perm Territory;
- Alexey Ivanov, Director of the BRICS Competition Law and Policy Centre;
- Andrey Bushev, Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation;
- Hardin Ratshisusu, Deputy Commissioner of the Competition Commission of South Africa;
- Thomas Cheng, Professor at the University of Hong Kong;
- Svetlana Avdasheva, Professor, Department of Applied Economics, HSE University.