The attempt of our unscrupulous competitor to discredit the Biolaz-Oberon device produced by CIT NELIAN LLC and the company itself ended in complete failure.
Apparently, having recently experienced certain difficulties, our competitors decided to look for the culprits not in themselves, not in their own mistakes and miscalculations, but in the work of other companies. To do this, they decided to act through the hands of state security forces, using the method of unfairly accusing their competitors of a criminal offense, contacting the UBEP and other similar bodies with a letter from unknown societies and unfamiliar “academicians”. But a strict comprehensive inspection carried out by employees of authorized bodies did not find any violations in the work of CIT NELIAN LLC. At the same time, our competitor was never able to provide any justified, legal claims against CIT NELIAN LLC or its products, despite an attempt to conduct some kind of dubious examination of an unknown device from an unknown manufacturer, unprovenly passed off as a device allegedly manufactured LLC "CIT "NELIAN" Having looked at several of our competitor’s websites, you see that he spends the lion’s share of his energy on pursuing other competing firms and organizing all sorts of actions that harm other market participants or diminish their business authority. Really, wouldn’t it be better to direct such enormous efforts to new developments and research? I would like to remind some of our competitors that the actions of a market entity aimed at achieving an advantage in business by using unfair methods that are contrary to current legislation will not only not increase the authority of this market entity, but may also be a sufficient basis for bringing it to justice for using methods of unfair competition. It would do well for our competitors to re-read the law “On Competition and Restriction of Monopolistic Activities in Product Markets”, as well as the Law “On Advertising” before publishing false materials! P.S. Question: And if they checked our competitor, would he turn out to be clean and impeccable?
REFERENCE INFORMATION
(Constitution of the Russian Federation, Article 34, paragraph 2; Law of the RSFSR of March 22, 1991 N 948-I “On competition and restriction of monopolistic activities in commodity markets”, Article 10; Federal Law of July 18, 1995 N 108-FZ "On advertising" art. 6) Law of the RSFSR of March 22, 1991 N 948-I “On competition and restriction of monopolistic activities in product markets” Article 10. Forms of unfair competition Unfair competition is not permitted, including:
dissemination of false, inaccurate or distorted information that could cause losses to another business entity or damage its business reputation;
misleading consumers regarding the nature, method and place of manufacture, consumer properties, quality of the product;
incorrect comparison by an economic entity of the goods produced or sold by it with the goods of other economic entities
Article 22-1. Types of liability for violation of antimonopoly legislation For guilty illegal acts that violate antimonopoly legislation, officials of federal executive authorities, executive authorities of constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local governments, commercial and non-profit organizations or their leaders, as well as citizens, including individual entrepreneurs, bear civil, administrative or criminal liability (in our case, a fine of up to 700 minimum wages, i.e. 70,000 rubles). Federal Law "On Advertising" dated July 18, 1995 N 108-FZ Article 6. Unfair advertising. Unfair advertising is advertising that:
discredits legal entities and individuals who do not use the advertised goods;
contains incorrect comparisons of the advertised product with the product(s) of other legal entities or individuals, and also contains statements, images discrediting the honor, dignity or business reputation of a competitor(s);
misleads consumers regarding the advertised product through imitation (copying or imitation) of the general design, text, advertising formulas, images, music or sound effects used in advertising of other products, or through abuse of the trust of individuals or their lack of experience, knowledge, including due to the absence of some essential information in the advertisement.
False advertising is not permitted. Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses of December 30, 2001 N 195-FZ Failure to comply with the Law “On Advertising” entails the following liability under the Arbitration Procedure Code of the Russian Federation: Article 14.3. Violation of advertising legislation Violation by an advertiser, advertising producer or advertising distributor of advertising legislation (inappropriate advertising or refusal to counter-advertise) - entails the imposition of an administrative fine on citizens in the amount of from twenty to twenty-five times the minimum wage; for officials - from forty to fifty minimum wages; for legal entities - from four hundred to five hundred minimum wages (today it is 100 rubles), i.e. 40000-50000 rub. The full text of these and other laws is planned to be published on our website in the near future.