* Interview with Mr. Bogdan Chiriţoiu, the president of the Competition Council

* "Oltchim can obtain a substantial state bailout"

Reporter: Dear Mr. President, please give us a list of the investigation which the Competition Council intends to complete this year?

Bogdan Chiriţoiu: I have hope that in the first part of 2013, we will complete the investigations concerning the manipulation of the ROBOR interest rate, the price of oil, the pricing of food in the retail sector and perhaps the one concerning the management of electronic waste, with the latter depending on its freezing by the court. The investigation of the food retail sector has been completed by the corresponding division and will now be followed by the specific procedures: hearings, recess.

Also, for the first part of 2013, we plan to complete the useful investigations - the sectoral investigations concerning electricity and bank cards (the commissions that banks levy from the retailers who have installed POSs). For the second part of the year, we are looking at the investigations on the energy traders who have concluded bilateral contracts with Hidroelectrica and the ones concerning the asphalting of the roads.

Reporter: What can you tell us about the investigation concerning the manipulation of the money market index of October 2008?

Bogdan Chiriţoiu: Under normal circumstances, I think that we would make this investigation public in the beginning of this year, maybe even in January 2013. We have completed the investigation report, it has been debated in Brussels, we have consulted with the regulator, we have reviewed it two times in the Council, and now it's being discussed in the plenum.

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