What did 2015 bring us?
A number of amendments were made to the antimonopoly legislation
at the start of 2015. The amendments had to do with the procedure
for analyzing the state of competition on a product market and
imposing criminal liability for certain antimonopoly
violations.
However, the most significant milestone in the development of
antimonopoly legislation in 2015 became the long-awaited adoption
of the so-called "Fourth Antimonopoly Package" that has
considerably changed antimonopoly regulation of many areas of
companies' activities. Rules about obtaining prior consent of
the antimonopoly service to a number of transactions, and also
rules governing issues of unfair competition, issues of abuse of
dominance and entry into anticompetitive agreements were amended.
The novelties also concerned the process of examining cases of
antimonopoly law violation.
