The development of market competition and limitation of monopolistic activities have been declared as one of the major principles of the national economic policy even prior to the declaration of independence in 1991 and official recognition of the Republic of Moldova as a sovereign state in 1992. The urgent government measures preceding the adoption of the first competition law have ordered state authorities not to permit the undertakings with dominant position: (1) to limit or to suspend production of goods, including their withholding from the market in order to maintain the demand and provoke price increases; (2) to refuse the fulfilment of contracts for the provision of works or services when such undertakings have real possibility to fulfil the contracts; (3) to impose unfavourable contract terms or other conditions that are prejudicial to the interests of the trading party and are not related to the object of the contract (obligations to transfer raw materials, goods, residential buildings, apartments; unmotivated requests to transfer financial means, including foreign currency; or transfer of labour force).