Valentin Mircea is the founder of the Center for Studies in Competition. Between May 2009 and October 2013 Mr.Mircea was Board Member and Vice-President of the Romanian Competition Council. In this capacity he was involved in the drafting and supervised, in 2009-2011, the significant amendments brought to the Romanian Competition Law and the subsequent revision of the secondary legislation. Mr. Mircea is the author of the book “Competition Law. Comments and explanations”, published in 2012 and of several articles on competition-related matters in Romanian and international publications. Prior to joining the competition authority Mr. Mircea has been in the private practice, as a lawyer specialized in business law. He started his legal career with KPMG Romania and continued the professional path in several reputable foreign law firms - Sinclair Roche & Temperley and, later on, Stephenson Harwood. Mr. Valentin Mircea holds an LLB from the Law Faculty, University of Bucharest, (1996), a diploma of general university studies (DEUG) from Sorbonne University (Pantheon-Assas, 1996), a master degree in national security from the National University of Defense in Bucharest (2009) and he recently finished a PhD thesis at the Faculty of Law of the Bucharest University having as topic the recovery of the damages produced by the breach of the competition law.
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The Romanian Competition Council starts a market test in respect of commitments regarding the mobile termination rates* The Romanian Competition Council (RCC) launched on 13 August 2013, the market test of the commitments proposed by the Romanian mobile network operators - Orange, Vodafone, (...)
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The Romanian Competition Council opened an investigation regarding a possible cartel in the Romanian market for dairy products* On 18 July 2013, simultaneous dawn raids of the Romanian Competition Council took place at the headquarters of several dairy producers. The Romanian Competition (...)
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The saga of the private enforcement of the competition rules in the European Union started long time ago, since the European Court of Justice made the victims of the infringement of the competition rules aware of the right to ask for compensation for the damages incurred, based directly on the (...)
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Summary: The Romanian Competition Council issued recently its first guidelines, which supplement the EC Guidelines on the applicability of Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to horizontal co-operation agreements - 2011/C 11/01. The object of these guidelines is (...)
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The background On 11 July 2012, the Moldavian Parliament approved, after extensive debates and consultations with all the stakeholders, the draft of the new competition law of Moldova, and the law has been enacted by the President of Moldova and it was published in the Official Gazette and (...)
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Romania is among the last countries in the European Union to have introduced the concept of the Legal Professional Privilege (“LLP”) in its national legislation. This took place in 2010 when the Romanian Competition Law (RCL) has been amended to a great extent and the relevant provision has been (...)
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America Movil abuse of dominance case seems to be a”happy-end” story but not for everybody* Everybody at America Movil (”AM”) – and especially its owner, Mr.Carlos Slim – should have welcomed with a sense of relief the (somehow unexpected) turn in the saga which started last year when the Mexican (...)
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The context 7 years since the Romanian Competition Law (Law 21/1996, hereinafter referred to as “RCL”) has been amended and 3 years after Romania joined the European Union, new competition regulation came into force, as a result of the enactment of the Emergency Government Ordinance 75/2010 (...)
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The new legal provisions purport to implement the latest developments in the EU regulations and in the case law of the European Court of Justice. This basis, as well as an extensive consultation of the Romanian Competition Council (hereinafter referred to as “RCC”) with the business associations (...)
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