Antimonopoly control over economic concentration in nowadays: novelties of legislation and law enforcement

Abstract

The acquisition of shares, stakes, fixed assets, the creation of a joint venture, the creation or reorganization of a legal entity almost always entails not only positive consequences for business and the economy, but can also negatively affect competition, up to its complete elimination in certain commodity markets. For this reason, the legislator establishes certain cases when a transaction requires either prior consent or subsequent notification to the antimonopoly authority.

In the last few years, there have been a number of changes that directly affect the procedure for approving transactions, including within the framework of state antimonopoly control over economic concentration.

In this article, the authors propose to consider the most relevant trends in the development of the institute for monitoring economic concentration in recent years.