Representing the interests of one of Europe's major manufacturers of cardboard and cellulose during the consideration of an antimonopoly case in the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (monopolistically high price)

KIAP employees represented the interests of the Company during the consideration of administrative proceedings initiated in connection with suspected violation of antimonopoly legislation expressed in the establishment of a monopolistically high price for bleached kraft pulp from softwood.

Accompanying the project from the very beginning of claims from the Russian FAS, during meetings of the Commission of the Antimonopoly Authority, KIAP lawyers were able to prove that the Company does not occupy a dominant position in the market, and, as a result, the provisions of the Law on Protection of Competition regarding the establishment of a monopolistically high price for it do not apply.

As a result, the Russian FAS decided to stop considering the case due to the absence of a violation of the Law on Protection of Competition, and the Company avoided the fines in the amount of about 32 million roubles.

Participants:

Ilya Ischuk, Julia Paushkina