FAS Publishes 2012 Investigative Activity

Russia's Federal Anti-Monopoly service has published its 2012 report on number and types of anti-monopoly applications, investigations and decisions initiated and issued in the last year.  Out of a total of 27,347 applications filed with the FAS, a vast majority -- 16,200 complaints -- dealt with Article 10 of Federal Law 135-FZ "On the Protection of Competition" (abuse of dominant position), with another 4,000 complaints addressing Article 15 (unfair competition due to action (or inaction) of government entities) and 2,000 complaints addressing Article 14 (private unfair competition).  The remaining complaints dealt with Article 11 (conspiracies among competitors), Article 16 (conspiracies among government entities), Article 17, 18, and 19 (state and municipal contracts), and Article 34 (consent for action by the FAS).  Among the 27,000-plus complaints filed, the FAS initiated action in just over 10,000 cases (37% of complaints filed), and issued a decision (typically including warnings and/or fines) in 8,173 cases (just under 30% of complaints filed). By comparison, in 2011 the FAS initiated action on 42% of total complaints, and issued decisions on 33% of complaints filed.  The FAS also reported that its consideration of pre and post-merger activity (in compliance with the Federal Law 135-FZ and the Federal Law on Natural Monopolies) has declined significantly from 13,278 notifications and petitions considered in 2009, to just 4,437 notifications and petitions considered in 2012.
http://en.fas.gov.ru/reports-and-analytics/reports-and-analytics_30893.html