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On 10 December 2015 Arbitration Court of the Moscow District completed the third round of a most infamous recently antitrust case among those instigated by FAS Russia after the Law on Trade had taken effect in 2010. For five years the Russian food retailers have been keeping track of the case three court rounds worth. The court ruled illegal the total of 63 administrative fines for the ag...
 2182 11 December 2015 Antitrust and Competition
The start of this week saw the publication of yet a third Ninth Arbitrazh Court of Appeal determination in a widely publicized antitrust case involving the application of the Commerce Act: OOO Metro Cash & Carry is contesting a decision, order and 63 administrative rulings handed down by FAS of Russia in connection with accusations of discrimination against suppliers of fish and ...
 2061 17 July 2015 Antitrust and Competition
On October 1, 2013 the Federal Commercial Court of the North-Caucasian Okrug upheld the rulings of the lower-level authorities that had invalidated the decision of FAS of Russia Rostov Directorate. The local antitrust authority had found METRO Cash & Carry to be creating a discriminatory environment among suppliers because it priced its services pro rata to sales.  Note that...
 2643 2 October 2013 Antitrust and Competition
On 9 July 2013 there came into effect a judgment of the Arbitrazh [Commercial] Court of Rostov Oblast, which can become a watershed for one of the fastest-growing sectors of the Russian economy – food retailing. We remind the readers that on 8 April 2013 the Arbitrazh Court of Rostov Oblast set aside the decision of the Rostov Office of FAS of Russia, which found KIAP's Princi...
 2471 11 July 2013 Antitrust and Competition