DUSHANBE, October 6, 2010, Asia-Plus — The 32nd four-day session of the CIS Interstate Council for Antimonopoly Policy (ICAP) opened in Yalta, Ukraine on October 5, according to the Antimonopoly Agency under the Government of Tajikistan.
The Antimonopoly Agency deputy director Odina Odinayev is representing Tajikistan at the session and he will deliver a statement on the state of competition policy in the country and trends for development, the source said.
The session is dedicated to discuss efforts taken by individual countries to protect competition and joint steps taken by the CIS nations to ensure protection of competition, as well as prospects of further cooperation.
The Interstate Council for Antimonopoly Policy (ICAP) was established in 1993 under the Treaty on Implementation of the Concerted Antimonopoly Policy of December 23, 1993 with the purpose of coordinating the CIS nations’ activity on laying legal and organizational foundations for prevention, limitation and suppression of monopolistic practices and unfair competition within the common economic space of the CIS.
The Treaty defines the objectives of the antimonopoly authorities on the ensuring of close cooperation in the field of competition policy and sets forth the most important definitions as well as the general rules of competition related to: abuse of dominant position; integration of economic entities; restrictive agreements; an unfair competition.
