Appealing AMCU decisions in court

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If you are doing business in Ukraine, you need to comply with the regulations prescribed by the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU), these regulations are aimed at protecting business relationships.

Violation of these norms entails huge fines, prescriptions, unnecessary inspections, eventually it leads to big problems.

In the modern world it is not excluded cases when competitors complain to AMCU not for the best motives, but for their own benefit. Most often these are contrived anti-competitive violations that you allegedly commit to the detriment of their business.

If you want to defend your legitimate interests and rights, you need knowledge and extensive experience in litigation.

If your business is subjected to various inspections by AMCU authorities, you need urgent legal advice.

In case you need to:

• verify the verdicts of AMCU;
• check the appropriateness of fines

Professional lawyers should:

• comprehensively study your case;
• assess the correctness of your actions;
• write a judicial act on reviewing the AMCU's verdict;
• inform you about how it is possible and promising to appeal the verdict;
• collect the papers and submit a counterclaim to be brought to the verdict.

Legal aspects of challenging AMCU verdicts in the commercial court:

1. Bodies that are above the AMCU may submit an appeal against the statement of claim, it should be filed with the territorial branch of the AMCU in the economic court (if it is expedient tokovoy).
2. To challenge the verdicts of AMCU bodies, the limitation period in the economic court is sixty days from the moment when the applicant receives the court decision. The established period is not repeated.
3. In the economic court it is possible to appeal not only the verdicts of AMCU bodies, but also other actions, including those established in the form of recommendations of AMCU, notices, decisions of AMCU bodies, legal regulations of state authorized AMCU;
4. Following the results of the case review on appeal of the verdicts of AMCU institutions, the economic court may consider them unenforceable in part or in full. In the economic court, conditions that should force AMCU to draw up a new verdict are not subject to satisfaction.

The cost of services on appealing AMCU decisions in court is negotiable, depends on the complexity of the situation, and is negotiated with the client on an individual basis.

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