Remedies as a key legal instrument for effective antitrust regulation

Abstract

The article includes study of antitrust authorities’ prescription legal consistence including comparison with other legal enforcement mechanisms, especially with legal lability. Author presents the results of FAS practice analysis, the ways which were used by the regulator to indicate violations connected with abuse of dominance and during antimonopoly control of economic concentration. The author substantiates that the mechanism of administrative penalty itself is the mechanism of punishment but legal enforcement to change the behavior of the economic entity to provide competition can only be achieved by the effective remedies included in prescription. In this way the author believes Competition authority prescriptions is the key mechanism in antitrust regulation and shares his views regarding the development of such mechanism.