Anti-Monopoly Committee (Ukraine)

Anti-Monopoly Committee of Ukraine
Agency overview
Антимонопольний комітет України
Anti-Monopoly Committee emblem
Formed	November 26, 1993
Jurisdiction	Government of Ukraine
Headquarters	Kiev
Annual budget	66+ million hryvnia^[1]
Agency executive	Mykola Barash (acting)^[2], Chairman of Committee
Parent agency	President of Ukraine
Child agency	Commission for promoting court settlement of disputes between investors and executive authorities
Website	Official website

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Anti-Monopoly Committee of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Антимонопольний комітет України) is the state authority with special status, aimed at providing the state protection to competition in the field of entrepreneurial activity.

Overview

Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine carries out his activities on the grounds of the legislative acts concerning economic competition protection; the Laws of Ukraine “On economic competition protection”, “On the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine”, “On protection from unfair competition” are main of them.

The committee consists of the Chairman and 10 commissioners, out of which there are two first deputies and three other deputies. Activities of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine is under the control of the President of Ukraine; Committee is accountable to the Supreme Council of Ukraine. President in consent with the Supreme Council of Ukraine designates and dismisses from the appointment the Chairman of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine. First deputies and deputies of the Chairman of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine are to be designated and dismissed from their appointments by the President of Ukraine on proposal of the Prime Minister of Ukraine. The proposal is made on the grounds of the suggestions of the Chairman of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine.

In every region of Ukraine, including the cities of Kyiv and Sevastopol, territorial offices of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine are to be created. The above-mentioned offices are legal entities which carry out the tasks of the Antimonopoly Committee on the regional level.

Within the framework of its procuration the Committee supervises the activities of enterprises of all types of ownership, state and local authorities, activities of foreign entrepreneurs in Ukraine as well. Committee is entitled to make decisions concerning abatement of the competition legislation breach, which are obligatory for enterprises and state authorities, to allow or prohibit concerted actions in the market, to impose fines or apply other sanctions with respect to the breakers of the rules of fair competition.

Composition

Market Studies Department

Division for Infrastructure, Housing, and Utilities
- Office of Transportation Markets
- Office of Communication, Housing, and Utilities Markets
Division for Energy Markets
- Office of Oil Products Market
- Office of Gas and Energy
Division for Financial and Non-Production Markets
- Office of Financial Markets
- Office of Non-Production Markets
- Office of Medical Services and Retail Markets
Division for Industrial Markets
- Office of Agro-Industrial Markets
- Office of Industrial Markets

Investigations Department

- Office of Investigations of Monopoly Abuse and Restrictive Practices
- Office of Investigations of horizontally coordinated actions
- Office of Investigation of Unfair Competition
- Office of Investigations of certain types of anti-competitive coordinated actions

Department of Operations and Support

Division of Human Resources and coordination of territorial offices
Division of Strategic Analysis, Planning, and Methodology
Division of the Committee Affairs
Division of Procurement, Administration, and IT Support
Division of Control over Concentration and Coordinated Actions
Division on issues of Decision Appeals in Government Procurement
Office of Accounting and Financial Planning
Office of International Cooperation
Office of public relations and interaction with mass media and access to public information
Safety sector
Control-Revision Sector
Sector of control over the executions of orders of higher authorities
Regional offices

Chairmen

1992 - 2001—Oleksandr Zavada
2001 - 2008—Oleksiy Kostusyev
2008 - 2010—Oleksandr Melnychenko (acting)
2010 - 2010—Oleksiy Kostusyev
2010–2014^[3]—Vasyl Tsushko
2014 - present—Mykola Barash (acting)

References

↑ finance and resources
↑ (Ukrainian) Mykola Barash perform duties of Chairman of the AMC, RBC Ukraine (26 March 2014)
↑ Parliament dismisses Tsushko as Antimonopoly Committee chief at second attempt , Kyiv Post (26 March 2014)

External links

History

Administration and
supporting agencies

"Security bloc"	National Security and Defense Council Procurator General* Foreign Intelligence Service Derzhspetszviazok Security Service of Ukraine* Administration of State Security General Staff Pardons Commission

"Administrative bloc"	Anti-Monopoly Committee* State Property Fund* State Committee on Television and Radio broadcasting* Public Humanitarian Council National Institute of Strategic Research National Academy of State Administration

Supporting	Administration building Constitutional Assembly of Ukraine Representatives Crimea State Management of Affairs

(*) approved by parliament

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