The Southern Interregional Territorial Department of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has recognized the actions of the Dalnytsia village council as a violation of competition law and ordered it to stop the violation within two months.
This was reported in the press service of the department.
According to the AMCU, the department's specialists found that the Dalnytsia village council did not take measures to transfer water supply facilities located in the villages of Maryanivka and Novohradkivka and are the communal property of this territorial community to UPTC-2, and did not conduct competitive procedures provided for by the current legislation for water supply and sewage facilities.
According to the antitrust authorities, the inaction of the Dalnytsia village council may lead to the prevention of competition in the centralized water supply market, depriving potential competitors of the opportunity to compete for the right to carry out economic activities to provide centralized water supply services in the specified territory and, accordingly, access to this market on a competitive basis.
"Obtaining the right to provide centralized water supply services without participating in a competitive procedure frees business entities from the need to offer better conditions for obtaining the right to provide them, i.e. to use their own achievements to gain advantages over others," the AMCU emphasized.
In this case, potential competitors in this service market may be business entities operating in the field of centralized water supply in other settlements of Odesa region. Instead, UPTC-2 received advantages in its business activities due to external factors, which, according to experts, in this case are the influence of the Dalnytsia village council.
The village council was obliged to cease the violation within two months from the date of receipt of the AMCU 's decision.
Кирило Бойко