The project related to the priority regarding the implementation and enforcement of the internal market acquis in the Phare programme countries. Its aim is to provide a consistent follow-up to the recently deployed European Conference on Competition through a permanent confrontation of the case of Romania with other CEE experiences in the field of its efforts to eliminate the barriers for the free movement of services and improve the free movement of capitals , aimed to generate a stable, coherent and cohesive information, communication, mutual assistance and consultation impartial system for promoting the EU liberalisation/competition policies . The identified target groups are located in seven Central Eastern European countries (CEEC) and are composed from experts of the general and specialised regulatory bodies, corporate members of the chambers of commerce, employer organisations and concerned professional associations etc.

The project was placed in the context of the simultaneous accession of 10 Candidate-States in May 2004, and of the preparation of Candidate States for a second wave of enlargement, as well as of accelerating the enforcement of the internal market acquis in the other CEEC.

in order to improve and accelerate the enforcing of the Single Market acquis, to raise awareness of the Central-Eastern European and EU target-groups on the new challenges, promoting the demonopolisation process and the principles of the competition culture, the protection and development of a more effective competition , the EU-type business discipline and EU standards of competition environment transparency ;

Adopting a cross border co-operation approach, in view of fulfilling a deeper socio-economic regional integration, the specific objective of our action is to confront the case of Romania with other CEE experiences in terms of  eliminating the barriers for the free movement of services and improving the free movement of capitals , aimed to generate a stable, coherent and cohesive information, communication, mutual assistance and consultation impartial and innovative system for promoting the EU liberalisation/competition policies.

In terms of priorities issues for 2004, the competition policy represents an essential dimension of the whole European accession process within the European Single Market. As such, we are decided to concentrate on the effectiveness of enforcing/ implementation operations. This could be attained through both the full harmonisation of the competition and State aid policy and rules, according to the EU legislative framework in the above mentioned field (including economic regulations, privatisation, antitrust measures, State aid supervision, international trade). In order to implement the competition policy and rules within the structural reform, we consider that a special attention must be paid to the links between Chapter 6 - Competition Policy - and other more demanding chapters of the Single Market acquis, implied by the preparation of CEE companies and involved bodies/authorities for a free and fair pan-European and global competition, and a for achieving a stronger socio-economic cohesion of the acceding countries involving various fields (energy, industrial policy or regional policy).