The OAO
LUKOIL Press Service announces that the judgment and order by the Federal
Antimonopoly Service (FAS) Division for the Perm Region handed down on September
9, 2009, which had originally found OOO LUKOIL-Permnefteprodukt guilty of
violating antitrust legislation, was officially ruled illegal and invalidated by
the Arbitration Court of the Perm Region on February 1, 2010.
Thus, the
FAS Division for the Perm Region found it economically and technologically
inexpedient to cut retail sales of Regular EURO-92 and Premium EURO-95
automobile gasolines and EURO diesel fuel, while increasing retail sales of
EKTO-92 and EKTO-95 automobile gasolines and EKTO diesel
fuel.
The OAO
LUKOIL Press Service further announces that on February 2, 2010 the Thirteenth
Arbitration Court of Appeals (St. Petersburg) upheld the judgment by the
Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region dated October 15,
2009, which invalidated the judgment and order by the St. Petersburg FAS
Division dated May 4, 2009.
This
judgment had originally found OAO LUKOIL and OAO Gazprom Neft guilty of signing
an anticompetitive agreement regarding aviation kerosene supplies to the Pulkovo
airport of
St.
Petersburg.