On April 17, 2017 the President of the Russian Federation signed a draft law setting a differentiation of penalties for conclusion of anticompetitive agreements. The draft law will come into force on April 28, 2017.

The draft law provides different administrative fines for conclusion of different types of anticompetitive agreements depending on degree of social danger: as the social danger of the anticompetitive agreement decreases, the administrative penalty will be reduced.

As a general rule, legal entities concluded anticompetitive agreements may face the following administrative fines based on the sum of the offender's proceeds from the sale of the product (work or service) in the market on which the administrative offence has been committed (i.e. “turnover-based fine”):

• from 3% to 15% – for cartels;
• from 1% to 5% – for “vertical” agreements and other anticompetitive agreements;
• from 1% to 3% – for concerted actions.

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