The National Competition and State Aid Program is to be agreed on by this yearend. When presenting the Competition Council’s report for last year, the Council’s head Viorica Carare said it is important for all the competent institutions to become involved in finalizing the document so as to remove the barriers to economic activities for the producers to be able to manufacture high quality goods and for the consumers to be able to purchase goods and services at real, not exaggerated prices, IPN reports.

Viorica Carare noted that the fines imposed by the Competition Council in 2015 came to 38.4 million lei, in 2014 to 1.7 million lei, while in 2013 to 290,000 lei.

Among the Competition Council’s accomplishments are the inventorying of the state aid provided to business entities and the working out of the automated information system SIRASM by which information about the offering of state aid can be transmitted online. Viorica Carare expressed her recognition to the EU experts who help strengthen the capacities of the Competition Council.

Attending the event, the Head of the EU Delegation to Moldova Pirkka Tapiola said that Moldova, being a small country, can swifter achieve the objectives to create normal competition atmosphere on the market and to develop competition culture. Bogdan Chiritoiu, who heads the Competition Council of Romania, expressed his readiness to continue to assist the institution in learning from the experience of the Romanian state and to contribute to training colleagues from Chisinau.