Highlights Of The AMC Annual Report For 2018

GENERAL OVERVIEW

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, and further movements towards the EU principles of competition enforcement. In line with traditional, in March 2019 the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (the "AMC") presented its Annual Report for 2018, the key points of which are highlighted below.

Top priority sectors for the AMC in 2018 were pharmaceuticals, communications, transport, fuel and energy, and consumer goods.

Number of competition violations in 2018: reduced to 1,344 compared to 2,435 in 2017.

Concerted practices: 95% of cases concerned bid rigging rather than genuine cartels.