OREANDA-NEWS. August 17, 2012. The FAS Commission investigated a case and concluded that actions of the Moscow Government did not have signs of violating the antimonopoly law (Clause 8 Part 1 Article 15 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition”), reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

The case was initiated upon petitions from several private secondary schools of general education in Moscow. Petitioners complained about discrimination of accredited private organizations of general education when the financial provision standard for the state services of providing general education had been set at a considerably lower level than established for public general-education organizations, by including the latter in a pilot project.

Investigating the case, the FAS Commission established that following the Court rulings on the same issue, petitioners’ claims to Moscow Department of Finances and Moscow Department for Education had been dismissed. Grounds for refusals: since 1st January 2005 the federal law provides for the right, but not obligates financing of private educational institutions through budget funds.

In view of the above, the FAS Commission concluded that the actions of the Moscow Government had no signs of violating the antimonopoly law.

At the same time, Deputy Head of the Department for Control over Social Sphere and Commerce, Irina Zolotukhina, reminded: “On 1st July 2012 came into force amendments to the law on education that established an obligation of the state to finance education activities required to execute the main education programmes in state-accredited private general-education institutions, in accordance with the financing standard for state and municipal educational institutions. Thus, the government bodies of the constituent territories of the Russian Federation must adjust their acts in compliance with the law”.