Vezhnovets Ivan Valerievich Biography

However, until you encounter directly with the mechanisms of its work, competition seems to something ephemeral and distant. Some substance about which they are talking about, they are ranting, but there is no direct influence. I had the opportunity to deal with investment issues, the forecast of socio-economic development, state property management, but only in March did the realization come to what competition and how it affects the development of the economy and well-being of people.

The point, probably, is that competition is not capable of giving a result momentary. This is a medium tool, and in many cases of long -term regulation. The main task, which is designed to solve competition, and this is the definition of a fair price in the market and the most effective distribution of resources can only be achieved on a long period of time.

This requires a large painstaking work to remove the barriers to the market entering, building equal business conditions, and preventing abuse that limit competition. And only when the industry is quite saturated with the offer, various companies and options for consumers, the goal will be achieved. This requires time, investment, entrepreneurial interest and initiative.

This is what Mart's main work is aimed at. Moreover, the factors that March take into account in his work, as well as cases that have to and have to investigate completely different. And all of them are equally significant for the work of the antimonopoly organ. For example, there seems to be nothing wrong when in a small district center the subject of a natural monopoly, sets three times more a fee for access to the infrastructure to its direct competitors.

Such a case, March dismantled in the year in relation to one of the water utilities. A few months later, all competitors were on the verge of closing, because the cost of their services increased significantly, and they are not able to compete with the water utility. What does this case mean for the country's economy as a whole? A small district center, small revolutions, only three competitors are affected.

No one will notice if this market is monopolized. In addition to consumers, of course, because for them the cost of the final service has increased significantly. And if such a practice spreads to other areas, industries, the country as a whole? The scale will already be different and the consequences are completely different. There are more global examples of competition restrictions - the conspiracy of dealers with the supplier and the manufacturer of plant protection products.

The subjects coordinated their actions at the auction, determined the price below which one cannot fall. There were 12 companies in all areas of the country. We are talking about a circulation of hundreds of millions of rubles. The conspiracy was reflected not only on the cost of the acquired plant protection products, but also on all chains of agricultural products and food.

These two examples show that the principles of competition have no scale and boundaries. For the normal functioning of the market, the rules should be united, regardless of the size of the company and the form of ownership. We try to adhere to such approaches in our work. Another important factor is the competence of the antitrust body. It has been developed for years, during complex and new antitrust cases, in court hearings, interaction with colleagues from other countries, constant training and advanced training.

During the work in March, it was gratifying to observe how employees of the Ministry of Investigation for the investigation revealed more and more complex violations and skillfully defended them in the courts. If in the early years of the ministry work the main cases concerned unfortunate competition in terms of trademarks, then in the year the fact of pressure from a large trading network on suppliers was established and proved in the court in order to influence the competitor.

And in the year, MART employees, with the participation of the Department of Financial Investigations of the State Control Committee, established the first cartel conspiracy. But this is only the beginning ....