OREANDA-NEWS. October 16, 2012. The 9th session of the Advertising Coordination Council at the Interstate Council on Antimonopoly Policy (ICAP) took place in Chisinau (Moldova). The Chairman of the Advertising Coordination Council is Deputy Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia), Andrey Kashevarov, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

Along with Mr. Kashevarov, the welcoming address was given by the President of the Competition Council of the Republic of Moldova, Ms. Viorica Carare, and the Head of the Secretariat of the Interstate Council on Antimonopoly Policy, Mr. Azam Usmanov.

Representatives of the antimonopoly bodies and advertizing communities from nine CIS members-states took part in the session of the Coordination Council.

Deputy Head of the FAS Department for Advertising and Unfair Competition, Ms. Tatiana Nikitina, made a report “On the State of the Advertising Industry in the CIS Members-States”. Participants approved the report and recommended to introduce it to the Interstate Council on Antimonopoly Policy at its next meeting.

The participants showed considerable interest to the discussion on restricting advertising of drugs and biologically active supplements in the CIS members-states and unification of the law on restricting advertising of biologically active supplements. Andrey Kashevarov and Tatiana Nikitina informed participants about the special norms regulating advertising of drugs and biologically active supplements. The most frequently exposed violations of advertising of biologically active supplements are associated with creating an impression that such supplements have healing qualities.

Due to the mass scale of such violations, the President of the Russian Federation instructed to devise amendments in order to tighten the norms of the Federal Laws “On Advertising” and increase liability, particularly, advertisers of biologically active supplements. These changes will help suppressing such violations.

Participants made a decision to devise the standards for restricting advertising of biologically active supplements on the basis of the laws of the CIS members-states and examples of enforcement practices.

Participants were also informed about social-and-economic development of the CIS members-states in the first six months of 2012.

In the second part of the meeting participants of the Coordination Council were engaged in an active dialogue about enforcement practice in the field of the advertising law in the CIS members-states.