Maltese Delegation's participation in Conference on Ecnonimic Issues in Poland

A delegation made up of Magistrate Dr. Silvio Meli, Chairman of the Commission for Fair Trading, Mr. Marcel Pizzuto Director of the Office for Fair Competition, Dr. Josanne Bonnici from the EU Directorate, Dr. Michael Tanti Dougall from the Ministry for Economic Services and Mr. Mario Brincat from the Malta Development Corporation, last week attended the Fifth Competition Conference held in Krakow, Poland.

This Conference, to which Malta and Cyprus were invited for the first time, consisted of a meeting of high level representatives from the 10 Central and Eastern European applicant countries together with Cyprus and Malta, on the one hand and the European Commission on the other. During this conference competition issues including recent developments in anti-trust policy, liberalization of monopolized sectors and recent developments in State-aid policy were discussed.

During their stay in Poland, the Maltese delegation had a bi-lateral meeting with EU Commission Officials headed by Mr. Alexander Schaub, Director General at DG IV.

During this meeting the main principles of the local Competition Act were explained to the Commission, together with planned measures to further increase harmonisation with the EU acquis.