Romania’s Competition Council fines Agrana group over sugar price fixing

04 August 2026 Romania’s Competition Council has fined Agrana Sales & Marketing GmbH, Agrana România SRL and Lucsor Impex SRL a combined RON 52.09 million (EUR 10 million) for an anti-competitive agreement to fix sugar prices on the Romanian market. Agrana Sales & Marketing GmbH and Agrana România, which the authority considers a single economic unit, were fined RON 42.18 million, while Lucsor Impex was fined RON 9.91 million, Economica.net reported. Following an investigation, the Competition Council found that the companies had agreed on the selling prices of sugar in Romania. The arrangement involved setting the value of individual components of Lucsor Impex’s selling price, including its commercial margin, which should have been determined independently. As a result, the selling prices