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President Iohannis: Romanian business environment needs a powerful, balanced Competition Council
President Klaus Iohannis stated on Wednesday that the Romanian business environment needs a powerful, balanced Competition Council, with a vision and a vocation in favor of the market economy.
"In democracy and in the market economy, each will be respected when no one is personally favored, whether we refer to the citizen, as a benchmark of any public policy, or to the business environment, Romanian or foreign investors and entrepreneurs. The Romanian business environment needs a powerful, balanced Competition Council, with a vision and a vocation in favor of the market economy," the head of state said at the Cotroceni Palace, in the ceremony for the oath of office taken by the new members of the Competition Council.
He stated that through the appointment of the three new members of the Competition Council, the institution is filling its leadership structure with "fresh forces, who will place themselves in the service of competition policy, in service of a competitive business environment, in order to protect competition and not competitors," pointing out that only in this way the competitive market economy will fully unveil its benefits.
The head of state underlined that Romania needs a strengthened market economy, where the authorities' role is to regulate "both constructively and instructively, not just or necessarily punitively."
"Today, the markets are complex realities, with institutional determinations, in a continuous dynamics. For that reason, before treating the slips from the competitive policy, we have to try, to also educate and prevent. Besides resources, capital and work force, the economic education is maybe the most important asset of a competitive company," Iohannis added.
The President expressed his hope that the leadership structure of the Competition Council will be soon complete, with all the mandates stipulated by the functioning law, so that the institution can have "all the engines working" in order to fulfill its institutional role.
"I congratulate the Competition Council and I send encouragements and support for the complex role that this institution has to fulfill!," Klaus Iohannis stated.
Vice-President Elena Kleininger, Competition Counselors Cosmin Belacurencu and Dragos Constantin Vasile took the oath of office, for a mandate of five years at the Competition Council.
The swearing-in ceremony was attended by several presidential advisors, President of the Competition Council Bogdan Chiritoiu and members of the Council.