Moldovan competition council fines concessionaire of Chisinau International Airport with five million lei

Chisinau, 10 September /MOLDPRES/ - The Competition Council (CC) has fined the enterprise Avia Invest, which шы еру concessionaire of the Chisinau International Airport, with about five million lei "for abuse of dominating position against the limited company MGH Ground Handling."

CC informs that Avia Invest violated the article 11 of the Competition Law. Under the latter, the use of a dominating position on the relevant market is banned, to the extent to which this may affect the competition or harm the collective interests of the end consumers, including by setting unfair prices or applying unequal conditions at equivalent services in relations with trade partners.

The fine was applied today, 10 September, and is to be paid into the state budget in 60 days at the latest.

The limited company MGH Ground Handling provides services to airships on the ground at the Chisinau International Airport.

Avia Invest  is the concessionaire of the Chisinau  International Airport. The airport was granted to concession for a period of 49 years. The government set up, in late August, a working group that will assess the present situation at the Chisinau International Airport and will analyse the legal ground of the contract's cancellation. Prime minister Valeriu Strelet today said that "the assessment of the lawfulness of the granting to concession of the Chisinau International Airport and pre-conditions for the cancellation of the contract on grant" had been among the priority issues approached by the government.

(Reporter V. Bercu, editor M. Jantovan)