Bogdan Marius Chirițoiu, PhD, President of the Romanian Competition Council - leading the Authority during the past 11 years - and Associate Lecturer at the University of Bucharest. Vlad Dan Roman, LLM, MA, Competition, State aid and Platform economy Attaché at the Romanian Permanent Representation to the EU (Brussels). Also, starting with April 2018, Vlad has been a voluntary Country Correspondent for this journal.The views and opinions expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position of any agency or governmental body. For correspondence: <mailto:presedinte@consiliulconcurentei.ro> and <mailto:vlad.roman@rpro.eu>.