YEREVAN, JANUARY 22, NOYAN TAPAN. In 2010 the RA State Commission for the Protection of Economic Competition plans to assess the state of competition in Armenian marzes (provinces). The commission chairman David Harutyunian told reporters on January 22 that previously there were some attempts to do such work in marzes, but this time large-scale work will be carried out to ascertain the situation there. The commission also envisages improving the methodologigal base this year. "It is no secret that in addition to the legislation, the methodology forms a basis for activities of each body. We have much work to do in this direction," D. Harutyunian said. The commission in cooperation with the RA Ministry of Finance will work out methodological instructions, based on which some steps will be taken in the market of state purchases. D. Harutyunian attached importance to retraining the commission members. They do not have profound knowledge of all commodity markets which will be needed during studies of these markets, so the commission is going to create expert teams for each sector.

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