Competition Council issued its Annual Report for 2009

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In the present economic and financial crisis, a secure normal competition environment is a major objective for all the states and competition authorities. In this context, the effective protection of the competition framework aiming at lowering final prices is becoming essential for resuscitating the consumption, which is an important factor in overcoming the crises period.

During a year when the effects of the economic and financial crises were fully experienced by the business environment and by consumers, the Competition Council’s activity focused intensively on identifying and sanctioning anticompetitive practices, as well as on fulfilling all the commitments on competition and State aid – resulted from Romania’s status of EU Member State.

In this context, The Annual Report synthetically illustrates the institution’s accomplishments in 2009. A special attention was and still is given to the “State aid National Network” Program, that is considered to be one of the most significant ways to create a working group at national level, to cluster State aid experts from the Competition Council and from the State aid granting bodies.