The Competition Council attributions are:

  • to take decisions for the cases of Competition Law infringements;
  • to certify, following investigations requested by undertakings or associations of undertakings, and on account of the investigations and gathered evidences that there is no ground to intervene according to the Competition Law;
  • to take decisions concerning the individual exemptions for agreements, decisions for partnership or concerted practices, decisions concerning the admission of economic concentrations;
  • to carry out the effective enforcement of its decisions;
  • to carry out, at its own initiative, investigations aimed at a better understanding of the market;
  • to inform the Government about monopoly situations or other cases according to the law and to propose the measures deemed necessary to remedy the ascertained dysfunctions;
  • to inform the courts on cases in which these are competent;
  • to supervise the enforcement of legal provisions and other norms related to the object of the present Competition law;
  • to inform the Government about the interference of central and local public administration bodies in enforcing the Competition law;
  • to give advisory opinion on the draft normative acts that may have anti-competitive impact, and to propose amendments to the normative acts having such effects;
  • to endorse state policy and the schemes of granting of state aids from the point of view of the possible effects on competition and to control that these rules are observed;
  • to recommend to the Government and the local public administration to adopt measures facilitating the market and competition development;
  • to propose to the Government and local public administration bodies, disciplinary measures against their staff for not observing the mandatory decisions of the Council;
  • to draw up studies and reports on its field of activity, and to inform the Government, the public and the specialized international organizations about this activity;
  • to represent Romania and promote information and experience exchanges in the relationships with specialized international organizations and institutions, and to co-operate with foreign and community competition authorities.

 

The Council shall state its viewpoint on every aspect of competition policy, at the request of:

  • the Presidency of Romania;
  • the Parliament commissions, senators and deputies;
  • the central or local public administration bodies;
  • the professional, employers' and trade union organizations, including the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania;
  • the consumers' protection organizations;
  • the courts and prosecutors' offices.

The Competition Council shall draw up an annual report on its activity, and the manner in which the undertakings and public authorities observe the rules of competition, according to the present law.
The report shall be adopted by the Plenum of the Competition Council, and shall be published.

In the State Aid field, Competition Council has the following attributions:

  • issues decisions according to the Law, following the assessment of the notifications regarding the intention to grant a new state aid or to modify an existing state aid;
  • supervises the effective application of its decisions;
  • intimates the courts according to the provisions of the Law;
  • intimates the authority initiating a normative act, through which there are established state aid measures, not-notified or forbidden by a Competition Council decision, and in the same time informs the grantor and the beneficiary with regard to the intimation sent to the initiator authority;
  • elaborates annually the State Aid Inventory;
  • monitors the existing state aids;
  • supervises the financial relations between the public authorities and public undertakings, as well the ensurance of transparency within the undertakings entrusted with special or exclusive rights or which were entrusted to perform a service of general economic interest;
  • elaborates an annual report on State Aids granted in Romania, which is submitted to the Government; in order to ensure transparency in this field, the Competition Council submits this Report to the European Commission and publishes it in the Official Journal of Romania, Part I.