On the problem of the system of sources of domestic competition law

Abstract

In the article, the author explores the system of sources of competition law, focusing on their formal understanding in the theory of law. The author attempts to draw a watershed between the sources of competition law and legal acts, the control over compliance with which is carried out by the antimonopoly authority, demonstrating by example from law enforcement practice the negative effect of incorrect application by analogy of the tools of competition law to legal relations unrelated to the subject of competition law. Based on theoretical research in the field of law, as well as law enforcement practice, the author concludes that the basis for the demarcation of such sources may be the development of a system of principles in the theory of law, which in themselves are also sources of law, regardless of their normative consolidation.