Russian Industrialists, VEGAS LEX and FAS Russia discuss the specifics of, and judicial disputes in

On 22 June 2017, there was held a roundtable
of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RUIE) and VEGAS LEX, involving
FAS Russia, dedicated to the matters of legal regulation of the energy
resources supply to industrial enterprises.

On 22 June
2017, the Property Committee of the Russian Union of Industrialists and
Entrepreneurs (RUIE) and the law firm VEGAS LEX held a roundtable on the topic “Supplying Resources to Industrial
Consumers: Current Issues and Judicial Practice”, with the participation of
the Federal Antimonopoly Service.

Alexander
Sitnikov, Deputy Chairman of the Competition Development Committee,
member of the RUIE’s Property Committee, VEGAS LEX
Managing Partner, briefly assessed the regulation of, and the current
situation related to, the resource supply sector and, as usual, thanked the Antimonopoly
Service for the opportunity to maintain an open dialogue with business
community.

Evgeniy Rodin, VEGAS LEX Partner
and Head of Energy practice, discussed with the roundtable
participants the economic and legal aspects of conclusion, performance and termination
of resource supply contracts, cited statistics for disputes in the area of energy
supply and explained the procedure for challenging tariffs and the consequences
of their cancellation, as well as the ways of recovery of the amount(s)
overpaid by the consumer.

Dmitry Berdnikov, Head
of the Department for Antimonopoly Control over Retail Electricity Markets of
the Electric Power Industry Regulation Division of the FAS Russia, answered the
topical questions regarding the antimonopoly authority’s legal approaches to supporting
competition in the energy supply markets (for electricity, heat, water and gas
supply), including regarding the procedure for non-discriminatory access to the
respective utility networks and the procedure for technological connection to
these networks, and also particularly concerning the ensuring of legality when executing
contractual relations between the energy supply market participants.

The FAS Russia’s
expert further commented on the main novelties of the current resource supply legislation
and the key trends in the development of legislation concerning tariff
regulation.

Yuriy Tatarinov, Counsel of VEGAS LEX Energy practice, reviewed
the judicial practice in the resource supply sector, including the RF Supreme
Court’s approaches to resolving disputes in the electricity, heat and water
supply, and explained how to recover losses resulting from disturbance of the energy
supply regime.

The major
Russian and foreign industrial and energy-supplying enterprises and companies,
including AGC Glass Europe, Segezga group, Volvo Group, Gazprom Teploenergo,
Quadra, LUKOIL-Energoservice, Novolipetsk Steel Company, RUSAL, Pipe
Metallurgical Company, Fortum and others, took part in the event.

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