The Competition Council monitors the egg market “to avoid speculative price increases”. “I hope the producers have learned their lesson”

The President of the Competition Council, Bogdan Chirițoiu, said on Friday that the institution is “carefully” monitoring the situation on the egg market, where in the past fines were applied after producers “increased prices by communicating with each other, coordinating”, reports Agerpres.

“If you remember, we had a few years ago, when there was again a problem related to bird flu on farms in the Netherlands and in Germany. There was another shortage at the European level and then there was the export from Romania to those markets and the prices increased. Yes, it is a European market, if prices increase in Western Europe they will also increase in ours. What are we monitoring? The situation should not have speculative price increases”, said the official.

Chirițoiu said fines were imposed at the time because there was “evidence that egg producers raised prices by communicating with each other, coordinating with each other.”

“I hope that they have learned their lesson and will not do something like this again… We are monitoring the situation carefully. But at the same time it is good that we export, that we usually complain that foreign food comes to us, that there are large imports. Well, now I am happy that we have Romanian producers who have strength and can export abroad, earn money, bring money into the country as well”, added the head of the Competition Council.

“Romania has become the largest producer of eggs in the region”

On October 20, when the simple motion that AUR submitted against him was being debated, the PSD Minister of Agriculture claimed that in 2024 our country “became the largest producer of eggs in the region and increased its poultry meat exports by 17%”.

“Through the farms we have developed in the last two years, we provide 8.7 million places to stay, which means that Romania's annual broiler production has increased by 100 million chickens. Today, Romania produces 590 million chickens annually, which ensures our full consumption of domestic production and important quantities for export to countries such as Italy, France and Great Britain,” Florin Barbu also claimed at the debate in the Chamber of Deputies.

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