CENTRAL EUROPEAN ADVOCACY for a FAIR and TRANSPARENT COMPETITION

The Central European Advocacy for a Fair and Transparent Competition (CEFTAC) Platform was established under the aegis and with the kind support of the PHARE Programme of the European Commission, following the first edition of the European Conference on Competition and Competitiveness (Constanta, 7-10 October 2004), in the presence and with the support of the high representatives of the European Commission, OCDE, Romanian Competition Council, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and of other competition regulatory bodies from Romania and the New Member States.

The CEFTAC Platform is designed to be an interface between different key actors in the competition field, from the regulatory specialized authorities as the Competition Council and the DG Competition of the European Commission, to the business environment represented by companies, employer confederations, professional associations and the governmental / non-governmental organisations.

The Platform is aimed to monitor the harmonisation of the legislation in the field of competition and to advocate in favour of a competitive environment for the whole region. The Central-European CEFTAC Platform offers concrete solutions to the business environment, in its position as:

	FACILITATOR of public relations and of a more transparent exchange of information;
	CATALYST of the communication flow between the Competition Council on the one side, and the business companies, employers’ and professional organizations that are preparing to fully enter the European Single Market, on the other side;
	Advocate for imposing a new ethical conduct between the Competition Council and the companies;
	MEDIATOR that will contribute to the prevention and settlement of litigious situations that could affect the stability, credibility and profitability of the companies, knowing in advance and directly from the source the different legal and implementing trespassing of the laws;
	initiator in supporting the managerial transformation of the companies after privatisation, mergers or in avoiding the hyper-concentrations and the accusations of adopting cartel politics on the market, as well as in the fight against unfair competition (see the training sessions to be organised by EUROLINK under the CEFTAC Platform at Timisoara, Sibiu and Ploiesti);
	on-line CONSULTANT that will offer, with the support of its official partners, assistance and real implementation through the complex legislation, for all member companies;
	LOBByist through its free-lance consultants that will represent specific interests and relationship of the Romanian INTEREST GROUPS related to the European institutions, which already take and will further take crucial decisions for their activity on the European Single Market.
The CEFTAC Platform will promote and support a large variety of actions and events devoted to the acceleration of implementing the acquis communautaire and a faster integration of CEE companies within the European Single Market, respecting the rules, orientations and policies enforced by the EU.