OREANDA-NEWS. July 11, 2011. FAS Russia found that “Russian Railways” OJSC in the person of the Main Computation Centre – a branch of “Russian Railways” OJSC violated Clause 6 Part 1 Article 10 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition”, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

The violation was classified as absence of a unified approach to determine the cost of services for technological maintenance of terminal equipment designed to sell travel documents for long-distance railway transport owned by organizations – not members of the group of persons of “Russian Railways” OJSC.

Earlier FAS Russia received a petition of “Bilet Service” Ltd. that “Russian Railways” OJSC violated Part 1 Article 10 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition”. “Russian Railways” OJSC imposed disadvantageous conditions of a contract for technological and technical maintenance of the terminal equipment of “Bilet Service” Ltd. (as part of fixing the fee for servicing a set of terminal equipment).

Investigating the case, the FAS Russia’s Commission revealed more than tenfold difference between prices for the services of different railways (branches of “Russian Railways” OJSC) for technological maintenance of terminal equipment designed to sell travel documents for long-distance railway transport (for instance, Nizhniy Novgorod Information-and-Computational Centre set the price at 7545 Rubles, Rostov Information-and-Computational Centre – 672 Rubles 60 kopecks). According to the FAS Russia’s Commission, it restricted competition on the market of sales of travel documents for long-distance railway transport.

Thus, “Russian Railways” OJSC abused its market dominance because the company set different prices without any economic or technological justification for technological maintenance of terminal equipment designed to sell travel documents for long-distance railway transport, owned by organizations – not members of the group of persons of “Russian Railways” OJSC.

Having investigated the case, FAS Russia found that “Russian Railways” OJSC violated Clause 6 Part 1 Article 10 of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition” and issued a determination to eliminate the violation.