Today, within the framework of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the Governor of the Moscow Region Andrey Vorobyov, the Governor of the Tula region Alexey Dyumin, the Governor of the Tver Region Igor Rudenya and the head of the FAS of Russia Maxim Shaskolsky signed agreements on the development of competition.

The main purpose of the document is interregional cooperation aimed at the active development of competition in the Moscow, Tver and Tula regions in pursuance of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated 21.12.2017 No. 618 "On the main directions of state policy for the development of competition", the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 02.09.2021 No. 2424-r (on the approval of the National Plan ("roadmap") development of competition in the Russian Federation for 2021-2025).

"We are interested in ensuring that all procedures are competitive, on the one hand, so that small businesses always have a place in state and municipal contracts. We have been working with the FAS for a long time, constructively. It is always a development through a dispute, argumentation of certain processes. I am very pleased that my colleagues and I have the opportunity today to set a certain next bar, the purpose of which is to make procedures transparent, fast, strictly in compliance with the laws," Andrey Vorobyov said in his speech.

According to the text of the agreement, the regions will develop and protect competition, create conditions for the effective functioning of commodity markets, increase investment activity and increase the level of competition in state, municipal and corporate procurement.

"The unity of the economic space, the free movement of goods, services and financial resources, support for competition, freedom of economic activity are among the foundations of the constitutional system in the Russian Federation," Vladimir Golovnev, the Commissioner for the Protection of the Rights of Entrepreneurs in the Moscow Region, commented on the signing of the agreement.

He also noted: "The joint efforts of the subjects of the Russian Federation to ensure the development of competition, support small and medium-sized businesses and create conditions for the interpenetration of enterprises into the markets of neighboring regions are an effective mechanism for the development of a single economic space of the state, creating a comfortable business environment on a competitive basis in it."