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Marina.V. Telyukina y K.B. Shukurova
Competition Status of a Unitary Enterprise: Some Problems
enterprise, by no means, is not the same as the operational management 
right of an institution. Nevertheless, the term “operational management” is 
used to designate both structures that should be differentiated.
By virtue of the norms, clause 1 of Article 65 in the Civil Code of the 
Russian Federation (Federal Law of the Russian Federation, 2002a), the 
passive competitive status is used for only unitary enterprises based on the 
economic management right. Using the term “competitiveness”, known in 
modern doctrine (Galkin, 2016; Suvorov, 2019; Shishmareva, 2016), it can 
be said that state-owned enterprises and institutions are not competitive. 
The Law “On Insolvency (Bankruptcy)” does not contain a special 
chapter (or other location of legal norms) for regulation of the particularities 
in the case proceedings on bankruptcy of a unitary enterprise. At the same 
time, the Law contains the chapter “Bankruptcy of Strategic Enterprises”, 
as well as the chapters for regulation the general insolvency (bankruptcy) 
procedure contain rules (mainly, which are relatively recent legislative 
changes) that dene the particular status of a unitary enterprise.
From the foregoing it follows that one of the problems in Russian 
competition law can be dened the correlation problem between the norms 
of a special chapter for regulation the bankruptcy of strategic enterprises 
and the norms, contained in the general chapters, for regulation the 
position of a unitary enterprise in the tender procedures. The fact is that a 
unitary enterprise may possess the characteristics of a strategic enterprise, 
however, other entities (not just unitary enterprises) may be identied as 
strategic. A detailed discussion of this issue is beyond the scope of this 
article. Features of the competitive status of strategic organizations are 
investigated in the doctrine (Chirkov, 2014). 
The next problem of the competitive status of a unitary enterprise is 
determined by the very possibility of applying the procedures, provided 
for by the Law on Bankruptcy, to unitary enterprises under the economic 
management right. In the process of bankruptcy proceedings of any 
legal  entity,  such  procedures  as  supervision,  nancial  recovery,  external 
management, bankruptcy proceedings may be introduced. Without 
dwelling on the essence of these procedures and noting the interest on 
the part of scientists (Order of the Government of the Russian Federation, 
2009; The Decision of the Arbitration Court of the North-Western District, 
2019; Resolution of the Arbitration Court of the Far Eastern District, 2018), 
we turn directly to the problem, which is that the Law on Bankruptcy allows 
the sale of debtor’s assets, including a unitary enterprise, as part of external 
management and bankruptcy proceedings. As a result, the owner of the 
assets of a unitary enterprise (which can be the Russian Federation itself, 
the subject of the Federation and the municipality) may lose these assets, 
which will be transferred to the property buyer. However, in Russian law, 
the transfer of property from public law object to private individuals has