Romania's Constitutional Court allows competition authority to use cross-institutional data in bid-rigging probes

Romania's Constitutional Court ruled that the Competition Council may use data and documents gathered by other authorities in investigations into anti-competitive practices, specifically in a case involving 13 companies fined 10.3 million lei for bid-rigging in Transgaz tenders. This expands the Council's investigative toolkit and could accelerate future enforcement actions. The ruling clarifies legal boundaries for evidence sharing, potentially affecting ongoing and future competition cases.