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The Eurasian Economic Commission constantly improves working conditions of the EAEU business, and sophisticating the antitrust regulation mechanisms is one of the directions thereto. As the EEC has suggested during the Antitrust Forum held on February 18, the Eurasian Union needs new approaches to antitrust compliance since the existing norms have not been brought to unified standards. The issue also concerns digital markets, the development of which has been intensified in response to the pandemic and restrictions accompanying it. Arman Shakkaliev, Member of the Board – Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation of the Commission, has told in his interview to "Eurasia.Expert” about measures the EEC now uses to protect competition as well as changes it prepares.

Published in the "Competition and Law" Magazine No. 1, 2021 The Eurasian Economic Commission’s Antitrust Unit was one of the main news-makers in the field of competition protection last year. The regulator's plans are large-scale as well: to control anticompetitive digital practices, to elaborate specialized guidelines, to expand the EEC's powers to companies from third countries and to introduce a compliance system at the supranational level as well as interactive format for interaction with business. What are the main outcomes of the Unit’s work in 2020? And what are the objectives set for 2021? Arman Abaevich Shakkaliev, Member of the Board – EEC Minister in charge of Competition and Antitrust Regulation, reports. About "digital" antitrust regulation.

Highlights - International roaming will be canceled within the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) by 2025. Russian citizens will be able to use home tariff plan in Kazakhstan, Armenia and other Union countries.

Создание наднационального антимонопольного органа, который начал действовать 1 января, ввело в завершающий этап процесс формирования правовой базы для обеспечения равных условий конкуренции на трансграничном рынке ЕАЭС. О дальнейших перспективах развития зоны свободной торговли и ее выгодах рассказал министр по конкуренции и антимонопольному регулированию Евразийской экономической комиссии Нурлан Алдабергенов.

Presentation of the model competition law, the first Customs Union Law, is appointed for July. This document contains provisions that could seem severe in relation to business of the CU countries. However, Nurlan Aldabergenov, Minister of the Eurasian Economic Commission on Competition and Antitrust Regulation, is sure about the necessity of adoption of those provisions. In addition to the specifics of the new law, the Minister told Къ about the competitive situation in the CU countries, Commission actions with regard to barriers in mutual trade, and creation of a supranational antitrust authority.

​​ Евразийская экономическая комиссия (ЕЭК) оказалась в эпицентре борьбы "белых" и "серых" продавцов. Общие антимонопольные правила игры, которые нынче готовит ЕЭК, предлагают легализовать в странах Таможенного альянса параллельный импорт, чтобы покупатели смогли приобретать известные бренды за дорого и не очень, как за рубежом. Дилеры-транснационалы нервничают, потребители предвкушают, а интеграторы планируют найти соломоново решение завтра на конференции в Астане, где будет представлен проект модельного закона о конкуренции. Подробности об этом и о многих других аспектах закона по созданию единого антимонопольного пространства Казахстана, России и Беларуси в эксклюзивном интервью "ЭК" министра ЕЭК по конкуренции и антимонопольному регулированию Нурлана Алдабергенова (на фото).

Interview by the Minister for Competition and Antitrust Regulation Nurlan Aldabergenov to Kazakhstan Today News Agency

By the middle of the next year, all Customs Union member-states will comply with the Model Law On Competition. The world practice knows no cases when the antitrust agencies of different states apply the same principles. In his interview to BNews.kz, the Member of the Board (Minister) for Competition and Antirust Regulation of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) Nurlan Aldabergenov told about the progress in harmonization of the legislative frameworks of Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus.

The Customs Union of the three states – Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia – evolves and acquires a clear shape. The Common Economic Space is now really uniting enterprises and industries in various areas, and brings together the peoples who were locked in their national flats 20 years ago. Figuratively, this important process can be compared with how one makes door openings that are needed so much to enable communication. The ties between neighbours and states move to a totally new level of quality.

The law making activity in the Common Economic Space member-states is carried out in line with the schedule. According to Nurlan Aldabergenov, the Member of the Board (Minister) for Competition and Antitrust Regulation of the Eurasian Economic Commission, harmonizing legislation and increasing competitiveness of domestic manufacturers and service providers will be the top-priority goals.