OREANDA-NEWS. July 15, 2011. The meeting was organized by EBRD within the framework of a series of consultative meetings of members of the Bank Board of Directors, representing the interests of various countries around the globe, with representatives of the authorities, business community and non-government organizations of the Russian Federation, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

The purpose of such meetings is to learn about economic, financial and social situation in a country, where EBRD operates, in order to assess investment climate and the prospects of EBRD investments in the Russian economy.

Deputy Head of FAS Russia Anatoly Golomolzin informed representatives of EBRD Board of Directors about the main powers of FAS in the field of antimonopoly regulation, regulation of the holders of natural monopolies, about the role of FAS in advancing structural reforms in Russia.

Representatives of EBRD Board of Directors were especially interested in the issues related to FAS involvement in improving investment attractiveness of Russian economy. In particular, FAS efforts to develop competitive conditions in course of implementing the privatization programme, announced by the Government of the Russian Federation, access to infrastructure facilities, development of competition in the railway sector and observing competitive conditions in the financial markets.

EBRD delegation emphasized considerable work undertaken by Russian antimonopoly authority to establish various market institutes supporting pro-competitive development of the Russian economy and expressed their preparedness to provide further technical assistance to FAS Russia.