11.01.2012

Romania's antitrust watchdog has opened an investigation into a possible abuse of dominant position on the market of TV programs rebroadcast, the Competition Council said in a report Thursday. more

11.01.2012

Romania’s Competition Council on Thursday said it fined four companies a total 25.5 million lei (around EUR5.6 million) for having colluded to rig bids at two auctions organized by natural gas more

10.25.2012

Romania’s Competition Council is open to collaborations targeting public programs meant to support Romanian agricultural products, the agency's president Bogdan Chiritoiu said Thursday. more

10.25.2012

Romania’s Competition Council will keep a close watch on the food market to identify possible unjustified price increases, the agency's president Bogdan Chiritoiu said Thursday. more

08.24.2012

Filip Schwartz, majority shareholder and chief executive of the Otter Distribution group, says that even though the economy has changed in the last four years, this should be regarded as a time of more

08.07.2012

Romania's Competition Council Tuesday said it is looking into the takeover deal of Petrom LPG, a subsidiary of Romania’s largest oil company OMV Petrom (SNP.RO), by Crimbo Gas International. more

07.18.2012

Romania's competition watchdog in June authorized the takeover of Aviva Asigurari de Viata and Aviva Pensii ABC Asigurari by Alico Asigurari Romania, controlled by American group MetLife. more

07.18.2012

Romania’s Competition Council said Wednesday it has authorized the takeover of three independent gas stations located in Arad and Sibiu by firm Nis Petrol, member of Russian group Gazprom. more

07.16.2012

Romania's competition watchdog in June authorized the takeover of insurer ABC Asigurari by construction company Romstrade, owned by Nelu Iordache, for EUR6.7 million. more

06.05.2012

Romania’s Competition Council president Bogdan Chiritoiu on Tuesday said the competition law will not be amended in the next two years, adding the antitrust watchdog is now engrossed in carrying out more

06.05.2012

Romania’s Competition Council will punish any concerted pressure on authorities from medicine producers to revise the law regulating the clawback tax in the pharmaceutical industry, and is willing more

06.05.2012

Romania’s Competition Council will not extend restrictions regarding drugstore network expansion, which expire at the end of the year, antitrust watchdog president Bogdan Chititoiu said Tuesday. more

06.05.2012

The World Bank will provide consultancy services to Romania’s Competition Council within a contract of 19.84 million lei (nearly EUR4.44 million), which will allow the antitrust body to optimize its more

05.25.2012

Romania’s Competition Council plans to make public in June a preliminary report on its inquiry into the local electricity market launched two years ago, antitrust watchdog president Bogdan Chiritoiu more

05.25.2012

Romanian Competition Council’s probe into preferential tariffs at state-run hydropower generator Hidrolectrica will be completed by the end of the year at the earliest, Council president Bogdan more

05.25.2012

Romania’s Competition Council said it will finalize in the upcoming months the antitrust inquiry set off last year on the local gas market regarding a potential conspiracy between several companies more

05.24.2012

The insurance market's balance and revenue stabilized at half a billion euros three months into the year, after three years of decline, the market's players will not say that the worst is behind them more

05.16.2012

Bunge, one of the largest vegetable oil producers in Romania, got the Competition Council’s approval to take over the oil plant in Lehliu Gara (southern Romania) of Martifer Group’s Prio Foods, more

04.18.2012

Romania’s Competition Council will notify the Consumer Protection Authority regarding abusive practices by car dealers who are forcing clients to have their cars mended only at their repair shops or more

04.10.2012

Romania’s Competition Council has set off inquiries into a potential conspiracy between several companies to rig bids at three auctions organized by Teleorman and Ilfov county councils and the roads more

04.04.2012

The state should support small producers so they will be able to sell their products in large retail stores, which represent 50% of the market, and be less concerned with adopting interventionist more

03.31.2012

Introducing minimum tariffs on the local taxi services market would not affect the free competition and would compel transport operators to observe the legal provisions banning the sale of products or more

03.30.2012

The Romanian Competition Council said Friday that amending the taxi legislation to set unitary tariffs for taxi operators and ban routes outside the locality where the transport license was issued more

03.23.2012

The Bucharest Court of Appeals has cancelled a fine given by the competition watchdog to pension administrator Aviva Pensii in 2010, for an alleged agreement with 13 other companies over the more

03.21.2012

Romania's competition watchdog has opened an investigation into a possible abuse of dominant position by Hewlett-Packard Romania (HP), carrying out a series of unannounced inspections of the company's more