The article substantiates the existence of problems in the regulatory legal regulation of the procedure for initiating cases of administrative offenses in the field of competition, due to the artificial division of the administrative process for bringing subjects to administrative responsibility in the field of competition, violation of the principles of legislation on administrative offenses of the Russian Federation, which in practice entails redundancy of administrative procedures in the field of competition, It also violates the principle of the inevitability of administrative punishment for violations of antimonopoly legislation and the constitutional principle of equality before the law.