Rustam Minnikhanov takes part in meeting of the State Council on activity of the Russian regions to promote competition in the country

On April 5, during his working visit to Moscow, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov took part in a meeting of the State Council on priority areas of activity of the Russian regions to promote competition in the country chaired by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Head of the Republic of Udmurtia Alexander Brechalov, Head of the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service Igor Artemyev, Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin and Governor of the Ulyanovsk Region Sergei Morozov made the keynote reports.

The meeting discussed the measures needed to achieve the goals set forth in the Presidential Executive Order No. 618 of December 21, 2017 on State Competition Policy Guidelines.

Opening the meeting, Putin noted that ambitious tasks the country has require that everyone engages in their solution as effectively as possible, including the civil society, businesses and government bodies.

“Promotion of competition in the country is the subject of our meeting. I would like to say that this is a key area of our work. We cannot do anything without solving tasks in this area. We cannot reach any goal,” he said.

“Fair and honest competition is a basic condition for economic and technological development as well as for the country to reform and dynamically advance in all fields of life. I would like to begin with regulations in this sphere. In general, they correspond to the international standards. Over the last years, we have adopted four packages of anti-monopoly laws. The main thing is to ensure the corresponding legal precedents. Unfortunately, there are still many cases of ignoring the laws, especially by local authorities. Of the total number of antimonopoly law infringements in 2017, 1.2 per cent falls to federal authorities, and 98.8 per cent to regional and local authorities.”