26.04.2013

On April 25, 2013 the AEB held a briefing with Igor Artemiev, Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation, at the AEB Conference Center. The meeting was co-chaired by Frank Schauff, AEB CEO, and Alex Stoljarskij, Chairman of the AEB Legal committee. The issues discussed at the birefing included: Current practice after the implementation of 3rd antimonopoly package, further changes to the competition law (exclusion of notifications in merger control etc.), Strategic Sectors Law (FL-57), Parallel import issue, Current practice under 223-FZ (procurement of the state-controlled companies) and its further development, Advertising law (financial services advertising: current FAS practice). The Association of European Businesses highly appreciates the fact that Mr. Artemiev and his colleagues hold up the tradition of regular meetings with representatives of European companies in Russia.