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Anti-cartel
Main article: Anticartel
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2024: Allocation of ₽241,4 million for the creation of GIS to combat competition-limiting agreements
The Russian government approved the allocation of ₽241,4 million from the state budget in 2025 to create a state information system to prevent, identify and suppress agreements restricting competition. This became known in December 2024.
As he writes, the bill introduced in the ComNews State Duma bill provides for the creation, GIS the operator of which will become. Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia The system will use artificial intelligence technology to analyze purchases.
The founder of the law firm Future Legal Pavel Katkov points out that the digitalization of the process of identifying anti-competitive agreements will save billions of rubles in budget funds through the cartelization of public procurement.
Roman Semushkin, a lawyer in the dispute resolution practice of Innoravo, notes that the use of artificial intelligence will provide better processing of bidding data and an analysis of the behavior of their participants.
Maria Lisichenkova, senior lawyer of the antimonopoly practice of the Delcredere Bar Association, recalls that the FAS began work on the Big Digital Cat project, a screening service for identifying anti-competitive agreements, back in 2021.
Ekaterina Smirnova, partner of the international consulting firm D&A Partners LLC, emphasizes that the number of identified cartel agreements in Russia exceeds global indicators, which may indicate a formal approach to determining cartels.
Yaroslav Kulik, Managing Partner of Kulik & Partners Law.Economics, warns of the need to legally regulate the use of information obtained using automatic systems and artificial intelligence as evidence in cartel cases.
According to the explanatory note to the bill, if there are cartel agreements, contracts are concluded at an initial cost or with a minimum reduction, while competition provides a significant price reduction.[1]
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