Enforcement Practice of the Antitrust Provisions of the Trade Law in 2021—2022: Approaches of the Competition Authorities and Precedent Court Decisions

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of precedent acts of competition authorities and court decisions made in 2021—2022 in cases of violation of antitrust provisions of the Federal Law “On the Fundamentals of State Regulation of Trade Activities in the Russian Federation” of December 28, 2009 № 381-FZ were applied (hereinafter referred to as the Law on Trade) in order to study the developed approaches to the application of relevant legal rules. Based on the results of the analysis, the authors come to the conclusion that, despite the insignificance of the number of cases under consideration on violation of the antimonopoly requirements of Law on Trade, the problem of relations between participants in the markets for wholesale and retail trade in food products remains relevant, and therefore competition authorities and courts continue to improve approaches to the application of relevant legal rules, which seem appropriate to use in further monitoring of their compliance.