Bulgaria's antitrust watchdog has asked seven more oil firms to hand over wholesale petrol and diesel price data, the Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) says. The firms have seven days to reply, and the data must cover 1 May to 28 September 2026.
The CPC sent requests to Saksa OOD, Bent Oil AD, Bulmarket DM EOOD, OMV Bulgaria OOD, Rompetrol Bulgaria EAD, EKO Bulgaria EAD and Insa Oil EOOD. It wants to know who supplies them, what prices they pay and charge for petrol and diesel at wholesale, what they imported, and how the price is made up.
The commission has also asked the National Revenue Agency for summary data on retail fuel sales over the same period.
A day earlier, the CPC asked Lukoil for data on how it sets its wholesale petrol and diesel prices. The new requests come on top of information already sought from Lukoil Bulgaria EOOD and Lukoil Neftohim Burgas AD, and data gathered in an earlier probe.
The check is a preliminary inquiry under Article 38a of the Competition Protection Act. The commission says it is doing this because of its ongoing look at the wholesale market, complaints it has received, and the international situation, which is hitting the market in Europe and in Bulgaria directly.
The CPC wants to know how petrol and diesel prices are set, the terms on which fuel is delivered and imported, and how wholesale prices feed into pump prices.
Once it has the data, the commission will check how wholesale and retail prices are moving, how the price is built up, and whether supplies are secure. It will then decide what to do next under its powers under the Competition Protection Act.
The commission already has data from its earlier market study. Based on it, the commission put forward 23 anti-crisis measures in May this year.