The Federal Antimonopoly service (FAS) has not revealed any price collusion on the food market in the country amid introduced from August 2014 food sanctions and a possible deficiency of certain types of food. About this to journalists, answering the question TASS, said the head of the cartel, the Federal Antimonopoly service of Russia Andrei Tenishev.

"We found no collusion in the all-Russian scale. But from an economic point of view it is justified: the market is competitive, and across the country to negotiate market participants are unlikely to succeed", he said.

Check the FAS were conducted from September 2014 on the markets, which received the greatest number of complaints. Checking touched producers of poultry meat, pork, beef, cereals. The office concluded that the price increase was mainly due to objective economic factors.

"The price increase has affected the growth of the dollar. In the manufacture of many products even Russian production of large foreign exchange component of - use packaging, equipment, animal feed", - said the Deputy head of the FAS Russia Alexander Kinev.

"Now is not the time"

However, on the level of regions and municipalities were identified price fixing in the markets implementation bread, cheese, buckwheat, milk, sugar, said Kinew.

Today in the production of the FAS about 100 of these cases, which are excited either on abuse of a dominant position, either on the facts of conspiracy to protzenko within municipalities or entities of the Russian Federation. Sanctions for violation of the Antimonopoly legislation can reach billions of rubles on the basis of a fine of up to 15% of the turnover of the company for the previous year.

The FAS is warned market participants from attempting to enter into a cartel and use the difficult economic situation, in which fell the Russian Federation", with the aim of obtaining some additional income. "Now is not the time and not the situation when you need to seek out that earning more money," warned Kinew.

Any food markets can still touch the test, FAS refused to say, referring to the necessity of surprise.

The number of complaints decreased

As previously reported, the number of complaints on the hotline of the Federal Antimonopoly service of the Russian Federation on the issues of rising prices for food in early February 2015 has fallen by more than a third compared to the end of January.

Thus, in the period from 2 to 9 February from citizens and businesses received 654 treatment, including 645 - complaints raising retail prices. In the last week of January there were more than 1 thousand

According to the head of the control of agro-industrial complex of the FAS Anna Microcinema, most complaints, as before, was admitted to the increase in the cost of fruit and vegetables (180 hits), milk and dairy products (150) and sugar (78).

Microcinema added that now under scrutiny FAS" is just the market of sugar and milk. Scrutiny in many regions of the Russian Federation.