Late of oil workers

The largest oil companies in the Russian Federation, before November 7, were supposed to sign with an agreement on taking measures to stabilize and develop the domestic oil product market and confirm the freezing of gasoline prices and diesel fuel at the beginning of June 2018 with the Russian government. According to RBC , on the evening of Friday, November 9, this was not done, despite the sanctions from the Cabinet. It was assumed that the violators were supposed to be fined by the Ministry of Energy and FAS.

“The alternative was simple: either these agreements will be or will introduce prohibition duties, that is, restrictive measures for export supplies,” the publication of the Government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev quotes.

According to RBC, the Cabinet of Ministers, according to agreements, had the right to increase three times export duties for oil products for Russian manufacturers, which can cost companies a total of 420 billion rubles a year.

“On the part of the government-the Ministry of Energy and the FAS-an agreement on the stabilization of the situation in the oil product market is signed and sent to signing companies,” said the interlocutor of the publication who knows the details of the meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak.

At the same time, on November 10 it became known that the document was signed by Neftegazholding.

“We signed an agreement and fully fulfill its conditions. The company is interested in the development of the fuel market in the Far East and in fair pricing, ”the company representative told TASS .

Later it became known that Gazprom Neft officially entered the agreement.

“The company fully fulfills the agreement with the Russian government and is interested in the further development of the Russian fuel market,” Vedomosti said in the company.

As for the rest of the enterprises - manufacturers of oil products, they have not yet envied the document. Recall that last week, oil companies at a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak agreed to conclude an agreement with the Cabinet of Ministers, according to which, until March 31, 2019, the companies committed them not to increase prices for their gas stations until the end of 2018, as well as returning wholesale prices for the level of June of this year. At the same time, on January 1, 2019, manufacturers can increase prices by no more than 1.7 %, and from February 1-no more than the level of predicted inflation, that is, 4-4.6 % per year.

At the same time, the media reported that the companies participating in the meeting had questions Regarding the legality of the agreements, since the shifted script could be considered a cartel conspiracy and entail sanctions by federal antimonopoly and tax services.

“In accordance with the 16th article of the Law“ On Protection of Competition ”, agreements are prohibited between federal executive bodies and business entities or by these bodies and organizations of agreed actions, if such agreements may lead to prevention, restriction, elimination of competition, in particular to reduce or maintain prices. But this article implies exceptions if such agreements are provided for by regulatory legal acts of the government. In this regard, the signed resolution establishes cases of the permissibility of concluding certain agreements between federal executive bodies and business entities on the adoption of measures to stabilize and develop the domestic oil product market, ” RBC quotes an explanatory note to the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of November 7.