The Concept of the Mechanism of Competitive State Policy at the Regional Level

Abstract

The mechanism of formation and implementation of competitive state policy at the regional level has been improved based on the generalization of a set of elements, namely: subject (public administration bodies); goal (effective protection of competition and development of a competitive environment to ensure sustainable economic development of the regional economy); means (system of antimonopoly legislation (AMZ), program documents, finances (benefits and preferences, etc.), information on the competitive environment); form (protective - mainly direct regulation; active - mainly indirect influence); methods (protective, active, indirect); tools (legal and economic regulation); model (hard, soft); object (competitive environment, market structure, competitive relations, market subjects, activities of public administration bodies).

It was determined that competitive policy at the regional level is interdependent with other elements of the national economic policy system of the state. At the same time, modern competitive policy at the regional level can rightfully be considered an independent area of activity of state authorities.

Value goals of competitive policy at the regional level are considered. Achieving the goal of competitive policy at the regional level involves solving the following tasks: effective implementation of control functions to identify and stop anti-competitive activities of business entities and public administration bodies; formation of a competitive environment and improvement of its condition due to the reduction of unjustified barriers to entry and doing business in the market, as well as the development of infrastructure to ensure access to it by interested market participants; creation of conditions for the development of competitive business entities; implementation of competition development measures in regions and individual areas.

It was concluded that competitive policy at the regional level in a general sense includes two key directions in its structure: protection of competition (defensive competitive policy) and development of competition (active competitive policy). In modern conditions, competition advocacy is understood as a complex of actions of the subjects of competition policy, aimed at strengthening the competitive environment by using mechanisms that are not exclusively elements of the system of coercion to comply with the established rules for the application of sanctions based on administrative procedures and court decisions.

It was revealed that the state policy in the field of competition protection and development is interdependent and interconnected with other elements of the country's national economic policy system. Based on the generalization of the set of elements of competitive state policy at the regional level, the mechanism of its formation and implementation is disclosed.