OREANDA-NEWS. July 09, 2012. At an invitation of the Director of the Centre for Law Research at Sorbonne University, a FAS delegation, including Heads of FAS Departments - Aleksei Sushkevich, Sergey Puzyrevsky, Timophei Nizhegorodtsev, Maksim Ovchinnikov, and Olga Sergeeva, took part in the Round Table on pressing problems of Russian and European competition law, organized under the framework of a joint research group. The workshop took place in Paris, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

Other participants of the Round Table included representatives of Russian National Research University – High School of Economics, and from the French side – representatives of University Paris-1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.

The French side received their Russian colleagues in a famous Lois Pasteur Hall. The 2-day discussion focused on comparability of national systems of competition law and justifiability of country’s specifics in the field of protecting competition.

The Russian delegation presented reports on various areas of FAS works, including “The Objectives of Russian Competition Law and their Doctrinal (Scientific) Sources”, “Consumer Welfare as an Objective of Antimonopoly Regulation in Retail Trade”, “Seeking Economic Efficiency in Evaluating Vertical Agreements in Industry and Military-Industrial Sector”, “FAS Objectives and Methodologies for Evaluating Cooperation Agreements between Banks and Insurance Companies”.

The Round Table also discussed exterritoriality of competition law (European, American and Russian competition laws), and the concept of competition protection in American, German, European and Russian competition laws.

According to French experts, reports presented by members of the Russian delegation enabled French colleagues to understand Russian competition law and enforcement practice in more detail and understand directions of improving Russian antimonopoly law.

This is already the second meeting with active discussions of pressing problems and, in the participants’ opinions, such meetings should become a tradition.