Criminal liability for participation in cartels: the experience of the Russian Federation, Great Britain and France
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The purpose of this article is to identify and analyze the current reasons for the low effectiveness of the provisions of the current legislation of the Russian Federation on criminal liability for participation in cartels, as well as to analyze the accumulated experience of applying Art. 178 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and amendments to the current legislation of the Russian Federation prepared by the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation in terms of bringing to the most severe form of liability for cartels. To obtain comprehensive results of the study, a comparative legal analysis of the accumulated experience on criminal prosecution for participation in cartels in the Russian Federation is carried out with a similar practice in some EU member states, namely the UK and France. The relevance of the issue under consideration is confirmed by the availability of publications on liability for cartels, for example, from such specialists in competition law as A.Yu. Kinev, A.P. Tenishev, A.V. Teslenko. in Russia and P. Wirtz (Switzerland) in the EU. As a result of the study, the author comes to the conclusion that in the scientific community (in the field of competition law) there is still no single approach to the advisability of bringing to such a strict type of liability for participation in cartels as criminal. The author also revealed an insignificant practice of applying the norms of criminal law for participation in cartels (an extremely small number of initiated cases and, as a consequence, almost complete absence of sentences) in all three studied states. The results of this study can be used for scientific and educational purposes by students and teachers of higher educational institutions, as well as practicing specialists in the field of competition law.

Molchanov D.A., (2020), CRIMINAL LIABILITY FOR PARTICIPATION IN CARTELS: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE. Economic Problems and Legal Practice, 5 => 258-261.

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