Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has called on the new head of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine Yuriy Terentyev to step up the fight against anticompetitive collusion.

"In times of Ukraine's independence cartels that were based both on the political and economic collusions have been created. Your task is to destroy these cartels, anticompetitive collusions, throwing light on those who stands behind this and give a chance to Ukrainian and foreign business to develop freely with access to all the resources," Yatseniuk said while presenting Terentyev to the employees of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine on Monday.

Yatseniuk said that the top priority task for the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine is fighting against the monopolies on the electricity and gas, oil and fuel markets.

He said that the cabinet is drawing up a draft law on economic competition and asked the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine to join this work.

He also said that the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine should pay attention to state procurement, being the agency that will monitor their transparency. Yatseniuk said that the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine should not be used by unfair companies to stop transparent state procurement.

Yatseniuk also instructed Terentyev to present candidates to take up the role of antimonopoly envoys.