The Competition Council's budget for 2026, worth 126.088 million lei in budgetary credits and 131.095 million lei in commitment credits, was voted on Monday evening in the specialized committees of the Parliament, with a majority of favorable votes.
The Committee on Economic Policy, Reform and Privatization and the Committee on Industries and Services of the Chamber of Deputies, as well as the Committee on Economics, Industries, Services, Tourism and Entrepreneurship of the Senate debated and favorably approved the form proposed by the Vice President of the Competition Council, Daniel Picu.
Among the strategic objectives of the institution for the current year are: increasing the impact of competition policy on the economy; capitalizing on expertise in the field of state aid to support public policies for economic growth and the good use of public money; expanding the boundaries of competition and promoting a competitive culture; detecting and severely sanctioning violations of competition rules and eliminating anti-competitive legal provisions; etc.
General debates will take place on Tuesday within the Budget Committees and by Wednesday there will be debates in the Budget Committees with the main credit officers and reports on the budget and social security drafts will be prepared.
The joint plenary session for the debate on the two drafts begins on Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. and continues on Thursday, when the final vote will take place.
The Government adopted last Thursday the draft budget for 2026, built on an economic growth of 1%, a budget deficit estimated at 127.7 billion lei, representing 6.2% of GDP, and inflation forecast at an average annual rate of 6.5%.
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