OREANDA-NEWS. June 26, 2013. Deputy Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) Anatoly Golomolzin took part in a meeting of the Steering Committee of the International Competition Network (ICN) in the course of a visit of a delegation of Russia’s antimonopoly authority to Paris to be involved in the meetings of OECD Competition Committee and its Working Groups.

The Steering Committee announced the main projects for ICN Working Groups for the next year and discussed the following issues:

Introduction and employment of ICN products in the work of competition authorities;

A joint ICN – OECD project and areas of further cooperation;

Possibility of an ICN representative to take part in the sessions of возможность COMESA* on mergers.

Members of the Steering Committee paid attention not only to the growing number of projects carried out by the Working Groups (the annual plans include over 30 projects in total), but also to the importance of monitoring and facilitating implementation of their results in the work of competition authorities.

Exchanging opinions, Anatoly Golomolzin suggested to consider including a project for studying pricing on the markets of oil and oil products in the agenda of joint work of ICN and OECD.

Summing up the session, the Chairman of the ICN Steering Committee Eudardo Peres Motta informed that he would leave the Office of the Head of Mexico’s Federal Competition Commission. Members of the Steering Committee started to notify and discuss candidates for the position of the Committee Chairman, who will be in charge until ICN Annual Conference in Australia in 2015.

COMESA* (Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa) is an integration association created in 1994 as a preferential trade zone providing for stage-by-stage establishing of a free trade zone and then the customs union and the common market. Members of COMESA include 19 states: Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Kenya, Comoro Islands, Libya, Mauritius, Madagascar, Malawi, Rwanda, Swaziland, Seychelles, Sudan, Uganda, Eritrea, and Ethiopia.