On the 19^th of June, Rinat Galitdinov, Senior Advisor at Kesarev was invited to speak at the Antitrust Forum of 2024 as part of the focus session on "National Price Indicators".

In the current conditions of limited access to global price indicators, examples of price deviations in the domestic markets of the Russian Federation and at the global level, national price indicators are becoming crucial for the effective functioning of the economy and regulation. Their basis consists of exchange and over-the-counter price indices formed within the framework of the economic space of the Russian Federation, the EAEU and allied interstate associations.

Representative price data is a base for the creation and development of a system of national indicators. Therefore, the incentive system for market participants is very important.

Rinat Galitdinov spoke about the impact of national indicators on business and suggested ways on how to reduce it through GR risk assessment.

Other members of the discussion included Kuat Asambekov, Head of the Antimonopoly Department of the Oil and Petroleum Products Marketing Department at JSC NC KazMunayGas; Elena Tsyshevskaya, Head of the Department of Regulation of the Fuel and Energy Complex and Chemical Industry at the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia; Sergey Puzyrevsky, State Secretary and Deputy Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia; Pavel Ivanov, Managing Director at SPIMEX.

The Antitrust Forum is a flagship event in the field of competition in Russia. Every year it gathers more than 300 participants, including leading Russian experts in the fields of antimonopoly and competition law as well as representatives of key sectors of the economy. The Forum has been held since 2009 by the Association of Antimonopoly Experts (AAE) with the support of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS)