The 47th meeting of the Headquarters for the Joint Investigation of Violations of Antimonopoly Legislation of the CIS Member States was held in the city of Khankendi, APA reports.
The meeting was organized by the State Agency for Antimonopoly and Consumer Market Control under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The meeting was attended by representatives from relevant state bodies of Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, as well as representatives from the CIS Executive Committee, the Eurasian Economic Commission, the Regional Commonwealth in the Field of Communications, and the Association of Antimonopoly Experts.
The meeting, chaired by Sergey Puzyrevsky—Deputy Head and State Secretary of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia—featured opening remarks by Jafar Babayev, First Deputy Chairman of the State Agency for Antimonopoly and Consumer Market Control under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and Oleg Smirnov, Deputy Head of the Trade and Financial Policy Division within the Economic Cooperation Department of the CIS Executive Committee. During the discussions, the impact of digital technologies on the competitive environment, the strengthening of antimonopoly oversight in sectors such as finance, healthcare, satellite communications, and stock exchange trading, as well as the conduct of joint research, were examined.
Furthermore, new directions for the Headquarters' activities and subsequent steps for developing cooperation among member states were defined.