The document was put together by the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service on the implementation of federals laws approved in 2004-2012.
These regulations prescribe the methods, the object, and the results of control over wholesale and retail electricity markets.
The document includes a list and a description of state regulation and control measures which are implemented if a representative of the wholesale market is found to be manipulating electric energy (capacity) prices or undertaking other kinds of monopolistic activity. The state regulation and control measures are also implemented in order to control economic activity so as to prevent abuse and price manipulation.
The document also stipulates the criteria for making substantial changes in prices/price for electricity and/or capacity and the procedure for setting prices.
The document provides for the possibility of qualifying certain actions taken by companies in the power sector as violating anti-monopoly legislation.
The resolution is aimed at identifying the features of implementing anti-monopoly regulation and control in the wholesale and retail electric power markets.
