In 2018, the Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade of the Republic of Belarus (MART) requested the UNCTAD Secretariat to undertake a legal assessment of Belarus’ competition law dated 12 December 2013 (i.e. comments of its law provision-by-provision) based on the UNCTAD Model Law on Competition and international best practices on competition law and policy from jurisdictions of developed countries and advanced economies.
The objective of this assessment is to comment on the existing provisions of the Competition Law in Belarus, that is to say, Law No. 94-3 dated December 12, 2013 entitled “on the counteraction to monopolistic activities and promotion of competition” of the Republic of Belarus, and, if possible, to contribute to its improvement.
As such, the current assessment has the following parts:
(1) Objective and scope
(2) Presentation of the Competition Law in Belarus
(3) Analysis of the key provisions of the law
(4) Conclusions
(5) Recommendations