The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (the "AMC") approval for concentration (merger clearance) is required if at least one of the two alternative tests is met...

Earlier this morning, 12 November 2015, the Parliament of Ukraine has voted for the three long-awaited draft laws that are called to significantly improve the competition regulation in the country.

On 14 March 2014, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMC) released the annual report on its activities in 2013.

On September 15, 2015 the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine adopted and published on its official website the Recommendations on approaches for calculation of fines for competition law infringements.

This is an overview prepared by Redcliffe Partners based on the decisions issued by the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (the "AMC") during the period from January to December 2017.

The year 2016 was eventful for competition lawyers in Ukraine. Many improvements were initiated and implemented by the new leadership of the Anti-Monopoly Committee of Ukraine...

2018 was an active year for Ukrainian competition lawyers with the introduction of new practices, unprecedentedly high fines imposed on both international and local players ...

On 6 February 2018, the Ukrainian parliament adopted a law (the "Law") introducing and enhancing a number of instruments to make companies less susceptible to investigations ...

On April 4, 2012 the Superior Economic Court of Ukraine Issued Its Review Letter No. 01-06/418/2012 "On Certain Issues of the Practice of Dispute Resolution Connected with Application of the Competition Legislation".

Cartels and abuses of market dominance are very detrimental to consumer welfare. They should therefore be a top priority in competition law enforcement.

Trust industry professionals are quite often unaware of the existing competition law requirements in Ukraine.

Ukraine’s competition law landscape saw several key developments during the first half of 2026, with the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMC) continuing to focus on merger controls, procedural enforcement and broader policy reforms.

This update (No. 100 | 3 April 2023) covers key EU regulatory developments related to the evolving situation concerning EU emergency responses to, in particular, COVID-19, Russia's war of aggression...

The Law of Ukraine "On Amending Certain Laws on Protection of Economic Competition Concerning the Increase of Efficiency of Control over Economic Concentrations" entered into force on 19 December 2017.

It has been a little over a year now since the appointment of the new leadership to the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine and it turned out to be a very eventful year...

Under the On Protection of Economic Competition Act of Ukraine of 11 June 2001 obtaining into management, lease, concession or obtaining otherwise the rights to use assets in the form of a real property complex is considered "economic concentration", which requires prior antimonopoly clearance when certain financial criteria are met by participants thereto.

Ukrainian competition laws and regulatory practice continue to go through the active reform phase and 2017 turned out to be just as busy as 2016, primarily in the sphere of merger control reform.

Sayenko Kharenko's antitrust team has provided legal assistance to secure Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (the "AMC") clearance for the introduction of a new direct claims settlement agreement between the Motor (Transport) Insurance Bureau of Ukraine (MTIBU) and insurer members of the MTIBU.

In 2018, almost a third of the decisions of the AMC to impose fines for merger control violations were issued in relation to foreign-to-foreign concentrations.

In a key ruling, Ukraine's Supreme Court has upheld a previously overturned conditional merger clearance by the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine...