The promotion of competition culture is a very important objective for the Competition Council, Diana Enachi, expert of the Institute for Development and Social Initiatives “Viitorul,”, said in a debate entitled “Policies on competition and sectors where disloyal competition disrupts efficient functioning of market economy”, IPN reports.
“But this should be an objective not only of the Competition Council, but also of other public institutions and of civil society. Forces should be combined in this regard,” said the expert.
According to Diana Enachi, a society that knows how the mechanisms that ensure loyal competition on the market work and its benefits for the consumers can require more energetic and coherent measures of the Competition Council so that the competition legislation on the Moldovan market is obeyed.
Both Diana Enachi and expert Victor Parlicov noted that the Competition Council has the necessary instruments. Two important laws were adopted in 2012 – the Competition Law and the Law on State Aid. There were drafted normative documents for implementing these laws. All these documents were harmonized with the European regulations, but the competition environment in the country didn’t change much, while the expectations of the business sector as regards the role of this institution are high.
Victor Parlicov said that even if the capacities of the Competition Council increased meanwhile, the personnel units rising to about 100, a plan of action on competition and state aid was worked out only in 2015. “My first question is what the Competition Council did during these years after the adoption of the laws. We do not have serious analyses of market segments, only some sporadic actions without an end result. I see no will on the part of the Council. It acts swiftly only when it receives political instructions,” he stated.
The experts also referred to the cooperation between the Competition Council and other public authorities.
The general conclusion was that the Council has enough instruments to step up work so that it is noticed by national and foreign economic entities, consumers of goods and services and society in general.