OREANDA-NEWS. June 01, 2011. The Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service in the Yaroslavl region (Yaroslavl FAS Russia) found that “Energetic” Municipal Unitary Enterprise and “Pereslavl Technopark” Ltd. violated Clause 1 Article 10 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition”. “Energetic” Municipal Unitary Enterprise unlawfully obligated “Remkos” Ltd. – a managing company – to make an advance payment for heating energy to supply heat and hot water and refused to change disadvantageous supply conditions. Such arrangements required a 100% advance payment before the managing company received money from the population, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

Also, notifying three days in advance (instead of a statutory month), “Energetic” Municipal Unitary Enterprise in October 2010 terminated heating supply to “Remkos” Ltd. without a due notice, and accordingly – to all residents of apartment blocks.

“Energetic” Municipal Unitary Enterprise violated the procedures for introducing resource restrictions as a result of unlawful actions of “Pereslavl Technopark” Ltd., (from which heating for residents is purchased). “Pereslavl Technopark” Ltd. informed “Energetic” Municipal Unitary Enterprise about terminating heating supply due to arrears to “Yarregion” Ltd. four days before taking actions. The Commission of Yaroslavl FAS Russia also found that “Pereslavl Technopark” Ltd. violated the antimonopoly law.

“Knowing about the arrears, “Energetic” Municipal Unitary Enterprise must have taken measures in advance to repay the debt in order to prevent restrictions of heating supply. An out-of-time notification was not made out of necessity and the company had a possibility to prevent violations of the law but failed to do it”, commented the Head of Yaroslavl FAS Russia, Ms. Natalia Sibrikova.

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Under Article 14.31 of the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Violations, abusing market dominance is punishable by “turnover” fines from 1% to 15% of the company’s income.