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The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) was able to convince the main opponents of the government of the need for a law on unified tariff regulation, a said Kommersant. The document, on which the service has been running for three years, from the time the Federal Tariff Service (FST) joins it, will leave for the White House next week, although five ministries do not agree with him
. Opponents of the new law "On the fundamentals of price regulation by the state (tariffs)" have recognized its necessity. "There are disagreements with the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Communications, but they are not so insurmountable," said Kommersant. They view this as the "first serious victory" and acknowledge that it took a long time to prove the need for the law. "Recall that the FTS regulator tariffs were liquidated in July 2015, the office of Igor Artemyev became his legal successor
The bill and the tables of disagreements with the ministries (there are" b ") next week will be sent to the White House.The service expects the document to work from 2020. The FAS project is a framework, the decree of Vladimir Putin on the approval of the National Plan of Development of Competition for 2018-2020
aims to create a unified system of tariff regulation for 17 industries, with uniform rules and methods and unifying disparate standards sectoral legislation Currently, sectoral tariffs govern 18 laws , 40 government resolutions and more than 100 departmental acts.
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Public debate on the project ended in April with a negative result for the FAS – the document was written ied by market players. industries, the criticism of "universal regulation" has been included in the table of disagreements between the FAS and the ministries.
"All the departments currently participating in tariff regulation will remain the same authority, we want the sectoral regulation in the area of pricing to develop on common and comprehensible principles", said the FAS, adding that the specificities of industry will be taken into account in the regulations
. months before the end of the regulatory period). In addition, the document introduces long-term "full" tariffs for a period of five years.
Rates are now called long-term in 90% of cases, but only part of the tariff remains unchanged (uncontrolled expenditure – depreciation of fixed badets, taxes,
Rate data FAS intends to make public to With the help of a unified information system – UAIS, he is already ready to submit applications electronically, to make decisions and expert opinions. future, the UAIS will calculate tariffs "with minimal interference from the human factor" according to the specified algorithm, "they promise in the service.
If the first version of the project was a compilation of the existing regulatory framework , the bill could apply in the 17 regulatory areas.The standards were transformed, the necessary exceptions were made
Yulia Yudina
one of the authors of the document, head of the regional tariff department FAS
In particular, the method of comparative badysis that should be given priority (there remain three in the bill – indexing, method of economically justified expenditure) is excluded for certain economic entities that have not no badogues (like Rosatom).
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The FAS stresses that it intends to ensure "non-revolutionary" but "evolutionary" tariff regulation – so that the best practices of the F & A Industry are available for other areas, such as a regulatory contract that has a proven track record in the gas sector and in water supply, but not in other spheres.
the scientific base – Deputy Chief of Service Maxim Ovchinnikov will head the Institute of Competition Policy and Market Regulation, which has just been created at the Higher School of Economics
Presumably it will have to accompany the key decisions of control of the economic concentration and decisions in the field of antimonopoly and tariff regulation.
Daria Nikolaeva
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