International Videoconference, sponsored by the Russian Ministry for Economic Development PRESENTATION Development of Competition and Growth: International

International Videoconference, sponsored by the Russian Ministry for Economic Development

PRESENTATION

Development of Competition and Growth: International Lessons

2011

MINISTRY OF COMPETITION POLICIES AND TARIFFS OF THE KALUGA REGION

Program Goal – to promote competition in the Kaluga Region by developing a favorable environment to support the emergence of new entrants and

improved growth of the existing players in the regional markets of goods and services

Program Objectives:

1. To reduce existing administrative barriers and infrastructural constraints in Kaluga regional markets of goods and services.

2. To enhance transparency of the regional government.

3. To remove the constraints currently affecting the development of competition in regional markets of goods and services in certain sectors of the regional economy.

Targets and results indicators to measure implementation of the long-term earmarked program and subprogram in 2010

Performance assessment

Source of data underlying performance assessment

Indicator Target, initially approved by a respective regional law (regional government resolution on long-term earmarked programs)

Actual performance

Share of total respondents to the business survey who believe that the competitive environment has improved over the last year, in % - in wholesale trade

30%

22%

The survey samples in the previous years do not coincide with the sample in 2010

KalugaStat

In retail trade 50% 46%

- in construction 20% 5%

Share of total respondents to the business survey who believe that the regional and local authorities have reduced their anti-competitive actions over the last year , %, including:- In wholesale trade

25% - KalugaStat

- in retail trade 20% 6%

- in construction 20% 6%

Development of competition in the Kaluga Region in 2010-2012

Targets and results indicators to measure implementation of the long-term earmarked program and subprogram in 2010 ,




Actual performance

Share of on-line open public procurement auctions in total auctions , % <2>

95% 62% The share of on-line auctions dropped from 98 percent to 62 percent as a result of the legislative ban as of 01.07.2010 to hold on-line auctions using regional trading facilities. The region piloted 361 on-line auctions using the federal trading facility. Pursuant to the law, the regions should start on-line government procurement auctions according to the new procedure only from January 1, 2011

Regional Ministry for Competition Policies and

Tariffs






Actual performance

Share of individual and corporate appeals via the on-line reception desk of the official regional government gateway , registered in the on-line SADKO system of legally significant electronic documents , in total appeals, %

5% 6% Overshooting Administration of the Kaluga Region Governor, division for administrative support and handling complaints and appeals






Actual performance

Proportion of operational agricultural consumer cooperatives in their total number, %

62% 63,8% overshooting Regional Ministry of Agriculture






Actual performance

Share of newly developed agricultural and agricultural cooperative retail markets in total operating agricultural and agricultural cooperative markets, %

17% 20% Overshooting Regional Ministry for Competition Policies and

Tariffs






Actual performance

Share of food products by local producers in total sales , by groups of similar products on sale in retail chains of federal and interregional level, total, %, including

overshooting Regional Ministry for Competitive Policies and

Tariffs

- Bread and breadstuffs 50% 70%

- Milk and dairy products 20% 30% Overshooting

- meat, sausage, meat products 40% 55% Overshooting



Performance assessment***)



Actual performance

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Oil products concentration in the regional market (%)

51% 52,58% The oil products retail market within the geographical borders of the Kaluga Region is moderately concentrated

Kaluga Regional

FAS




Source of data underlying performance assessment )


Actual performance

Number of self-regulatory organizations, providing residential block management services

1 1 In line with the

target Ministry for

Construction, Housing and

Utilities






Actual performance

Share of residential blocks where the owners have opted for managing their dwellings through partnerships of dwelling owners or housing cooperatives, %

7,66% 7,11Undershooting of the target for “the share of residential blocks managed by partnerships of dwelling owners” is due to the amendments to Federal Law № 185-FZ “On the Housing and Utilities Reform Fund" as regards reversing the obligation by municipal authorities – recipients of financial support from the Housing and Utilities Reform Fund (government corporation) to increase the share of residential blocks managed by owner

partnerships to 20 percent

Ministry for Construction, Housing and

Utilities



Performance assessment***)



Actual performance **)

Share of private general education institutions in total pre-school and general education institutions, %

2,6%

2,51 Weaker performance in 2010 results from the reduction of the number of non-governmental educational institutions (industry-sponsored pre-schools given over to the municipalities, discontinued licenses for educational services)

Regional Ministry for

Education and

Science

- Share of educational institutions specifically tailored to develop individual abilities in total general education institutions, %

4,4% 4,1%


Development of the business climate in the Kaluga Region: looking

forward The World Bank’s Doing Business survey Diagnostics of the current environment for

starting and doing business in the Kaluga Region

Development and implementation of further activities with regard to the findings of the survey

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International Videoconference, sponsored by the Russian Ministry for Economic Development PRESENTATION Development of Competition and Growth: International