{"id":8476,"date":"2026-01-20T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=8476"},"modified":"2026-01-20T08:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T08:00:30","slug":"car-repair-shops-and-insurers-get-fines-for-anti-competition-agreements-in-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=8476","title":{"rendered":"Car repair shops and insurers get fines for anti-competition agreements in Romania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romania\u2019s competition authority Consiliul Concurentei set fines in combined amount of nearly EUR 3 million for 25 car repair shop partners of Auto Italia Impex and two insurers (Gothaer, meanwhile taken over by Allianz-Tiriac Unit Asigurari) and Uniqa, for colluding in order to fix and\/or standardize labor rates, spare parts prices, and other commercial conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation was triggered following a leniency application filed by one of the companies, which received immunity from fines for cooperating with the competition authority under the leniency program.<\/p>\n<p>Auto Italia was established in 1993 and is the sole authorized importer of the brands Fiat and Alfa Romeo in Romania.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\">Breeze393\/Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania\u2019s competition authority Consiliul Concurentei set fines in combined amount of nearly EUR 3 million for 25 car repair shop partners of Auto Italia Impex and two insurers (Gothaer, meanwhile taken over by Allianz-Tiriac Unit Asigurari) and Uniqa, for colluding in order to fix and\/or standardize labor rates, spare parts prices, and other commercial conditions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}