Public consultation of the draft law “On amending the Federal Law “On protection of competition” and the Russian Code of Administrative Offences” has ended on 27 July 2016. The Draft Law prescribes the concept and the basic elements of an antimonopoly compliance system. We advise of the key developments for the market if this Draft Law is adopted.

Pepeliaev Group advises that 19 April 2016 will see the adoption, under the auspices of the Association of European Business’s Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals Committee, of a Code for Good-faith Practices in the Pharmaceutical Sector.

On 8 December 2015 at the office of mobile operator MTS, a presentation was held dedicated to the system of antimonopoly compliance. This system was devised specially for MTS by Pepeliaev Group’s lawyers and their colleagues from the company, in conjunction with audit firm Ernst & Young.

In this exclusive interview to Elena Sokolovskaya, the lead expert of Competition and Law magazine, Dr. Theodor Thanner, General Director of the Austrian Federal Competition Authority, speaks about the main principles of competition regulation in Europe, how different countries cooperate to solve competition control problems and, in particular, about the international working...

Russian antimonopoly legislation has been undergoing reform for several years. New serious changes are coming and they will form a new ‘antimonopoly package’, which will be the fourth one.

We have dedicated this issue to the topic that triggered heated debate within the legal community — introducing a system of class actions in Russia to protect rights and legal interests of groups of persons and implementing a mechanism for reimbursing damage from breaches of antimonopoly legislation.