09.29.2017

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09.19.2017

Romania's antitrust body is keeping close watch on the fuel market and will intervene if it notices prices rising excessively following a hike in fuel excise duties, organization president Bogdan more

07.04.2017

Romania's Competition Council has cleared the takeover of French dairy group Lactalis of Romanian Covalact SA and Lactata Harghita SA. more

06.21.2017

Romania’s Competition Council has approved the association between Iulius Holding, held by businessman Iulian Dascalu and Atterbury Romania, entirely held by investment fund Atterbury Europe. more

06.12.2017

Romania's Competition Council won a lawsuit against Energy Holding SRL as the Bucharest Court of Appeals upheld an antitrust fine. more

05.16.2017

Romania's antitrust authority has cleared the acquisition of medical clinic chain Anima by MedLife, leader of the private healthcare market in Romania. more

10.13.2016

Romania's Competition Council is looking into the takeover of Netcity Telecom SA, the operator of the underground fiber optic network of Bucharest, by Direct One group via its firm Direct One more

09.02.2015

Romania's antitrust authority has authorized the takeover of Degi Titan, owner of the buildings and land of the Iris Titan Shopping Center in Bucharest, by New Europe Property Investments NEPI more

08.19.2015

Romania's antitrust watchdog is monitoring the fuels distribution market to see whether oil companies lowered fuel prices to reflect the price of crude oil, which halved to around $50 a barrel in the more

07.02.2015

Romania's High Court of Justice ruled irrevocably that oil group MOL breached antitrust regulations and agreed with competitors to take a type of fuel off the market but reduced the company's more

06.08.2015

Romania's antitrust authority has won a lawsuit maintaining fines it applied to TMUCB, Moldocor, Condmag and Inspet for rigged auctions back in 2012. more

04.01.2015

The Romanian Competition Council has approved the sale of U.S. giant Procter&Gamble's detergent factory in Timisoara, western Romania, to German group Dalli, which makes private label products. more

03.17.2015

Banca Transilvania (TLV.RO) announced Tuesday that it received all approvals from Romania’s Competition Council and the central bank (BNR) to take over Volksbank Romania. more

02.17.2015

Romania's Competition Council should start an investigation over the pharmaceutical retail and find out the necessary number of pharmacies countrywide, which is currently at an unsustainable level, more

01.08.2015

Romania's Competition Council has authorized French retailer Auchan to take over 12 hypermarkets and shopping galleries it operates, in one of the largest retail deals in Central Europe in 2014, more

01.05.2015

Romania's Competition Council has approved the takeover by Chinese-held Dutch grain trader Nidera of United Shipping Agency, owner of a grain terminal in Romania's Constanta harbor, and of United more

12.22.2014

Romanian antitrust authorities have fined oil drilling companies Dafora Medias, Upetrom 1 Mai, Foraj Sonde Craiova and Foraj Sonde Targu-Mures a total of EUR3 million for rigging auctions for drilling more

11.27.2014

The Romanian life insurance market is underdeveloped and its premium revenues are declining, as is the industry's share in the gross domestic product, according to a report Romania's antitrust body more

11.13.2014

Romania’s Competition Council started an investigation related to potential antitrust practices carried out by retailers Auchan Romania, Carrefour Romania, Romania Hypermarche (Cora), Kaufland more

11.10.2014

Retailer Mega Image, part of Belgian group Delhaize, will give up one of the 20 stores to be taken over from meat products retailer Angst and may sell another two units, according to the agreements more

10.07.2014

The Romanian Competition Council approved the takeover of the Romanian subsidiary of Portugal’s Millennium bcp by OTP Bank Romania, a member of Hungarian group OTP, and the takeover of the corporate more

10.02.2014

Romania's antitrust authority has fined 11 companies in the Romanian media industry a total EUR3.2 million for arrangements targeting to eliminate competing agencies on the media communication more

10.01.2014

Limiting the number of pharmacies in urban areas will not have any direct effect on the opening of pharmacies in rural areas, Romania's antitrust body said in a reasoned opinion Wednesday. more

09.30.2014

Prosecution should have a more active involvement in antitrust cases, as prison time for managers breaching antitrust legislation would be a higher deterrent in such cases even though antitrust fines more

08.27.2014

The Romanian Competition Council is looking into the takeover of the Romanian subsidiary of Portugal’s Millennium bcp by OTP Bank Romania, a member of Hungarian group OTP, the institution said more