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

03.19.2012

The Romanian Competition Council said Monday it slapped several pharmaceutical companies with fines worth a total EUR12 million for sealing anti-competition agreements. more

03.19.2012

Romania’s Competition Council has closed an investigation into local drug wholesalers without levying any sanctions although the investigation report sets fines up to 4% of turnover for the more

03.13.2012

The validity period of mobile telephony licenses should be shorter to allow for a more frequent reconfiguration of the market, Competition Council vice-president Valentin Mircea said Tuesday. more

02.23.2012

Romania’s Competition Council on Thursday approved the creation of the Oltenia thermal power producer, which clusters state-owned units Craiova, Rovinari, Turceni and coal company SNLO. more

02.16.2012

Romania’s Competition Council is looking into allegations that 11 construction companies have rigged bids for public works contracts on roads in capital Bucharest. more

02.03.2012

Austrian oil and gas group OMV Friday said it booked a special charge of some EUR120 million in the fourth quarter of 2011, for the fine imposed by Romanian competition authorities to OMV Petrom more

01.26.2012

The Bucharest Court of Appeals cancelled a 391,809 lei (EUR90,286) fine applied by the Competition Council in 2010 against private pension fund BCR Pensii for breaching the law regulating the more

01.17.2012

Renewable energy will soon have to stop relying on government support, since companies investing on this segment are “spoiled” with state aid, Tuesday said Valentin Mircea, vice-president of the more

01.11.2012

The Competition Council on Tuesday delivered the most eagerly awaited verdict of a probe, saying that the major oil companies were guilty of having reached an understanding to withdraw a type of more

01.10.2012

Oil company MOL Romania on Tuesday said it will challenge in court the 80.27 million lei (EUR18.5 million) fine received from the Competition Council within a fuel market probe involving several oil more