Decartelization of the economy: working model, alternative and combined approaches

Abstract

The article examines the concept, prehistory and modern practice of cartelization of the Russian economy. The key factors of the growth of cartelization are highlighted, the main approaches to modernization of the modern state policy on decartelization of the Russian economy are formulated. The intensive control over tenders by the antimonopoly bodies, Federal Treasury, Accounting Chamber and Government customers made it possible not only to reveal a large-scale practice of artificial bidding prices regulation using cartel schemes but also to reveal signs of a system of organized abuse in the field of public procurement, among which the cartel is not the most dangerous crime. Currently, the decisions on admissibility of business entities agreements in main areas of market relations should be taken in terms of facilitating the transition to an innovative digital economy, overcoming the general economic crisis, reinforced by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, as well as of maintaining a balance between transnational economic relations and protectionism of national jurisdictions. The most promising direction for the formation of common approaches to countering cartelization of digital economy might be an initiation of the development within the framework of UNCITRAL (UN Commission on International Trade Law) of a model law of the appropriate content, which refers to the form of "soft law", as well as of similar EAEU model law.