The paper deals with the issue of using hypnosis techniques in crime investigations. The author examines the criminal procedure implications of using such a forensic technique with reference to national legislation and the EU regulations, not avoiding to examine the controversial aspects in the legal literature and jurisprudence; however, the author concludes that the expertise would seem more appropriate to allow the use of hypnosis technique, provided that a clear distinction between hearing a person under hypnosis and the expertise of its discourse under hypnosis is achieved.

The Union and the Member States shall counter fraud and any other illegal activities affecting the financial interests of the Union through measures to be taken in accordance with Art 325 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which shall act as a deterrent and be such as to afford effective protection in the Member States, and in all the Union’s institutions, bodies, offices and agencies. For this purpose, Member States shall coordinate their actions and shall organize, together with the Commission, a tight and constant cooperation between competent authorities and shall take measures to counter fraud affecting their own financial interests. Romania, by adopting Law No 78/2000 on preventing, discovering and sanctioning corruption acts, the Law No 161/2003 on regarding certain measures for ensuring transparent exercise of public dignities, positions and business transparency, by prevention and sanctioning corruption, the Law No 61/2011 on the fight against fraud department, Government Decision No 215/2012 on the National Strategy for 2012-2015 and other normative acts, has created the legal framework necessary for the protection of the European Union’s financial interests.

This study proposes a broader specialists’ examination of the scientific work represented by the computer program, and particularly of its usage agreement. Law no. 8/1996 regulations on copyright and related rights concerning the computer program usage agreement were investigated in relation to the rules provided for in same law and established for the patrimonial copyrights capitalization agreements and to the provisions of the Civil Code (Law no. 287/ 2009) and of the new the Civil Procedure Code (Law no. 134/2010). The paper contains the legal literature prevalent views on the computer programs usage agreement and the author’s views about some aspects of the analyzed agreement, leaving open path for research, from various perspectives, of particularly complex and evolving legal issues in the matter.

Article 7 paragraph 1 of the Law no. 554/2004 regarding Administrative Litigation regulates the “preliminary procedure”; therefore, the establishment that, before addressing the administrative courts, the prejudiced person in his/ her own right or interest (usually by an individual administrative action) shall require the issuing authority (or the superior authority, if any) the (in whole or in part) rescission of the action, within 30 days from the notification date of the action concerned. As the “preliminary procedure” issue presents some peculiarities in the matter of the construction permit [covered by Law no. 50/1991 on the authorization of construction works (republished on 13 October 2004)], the study’s author, examines on the one hand, in detail, the issue of the “preliminary procedure”, and on the other hand, presents the peculiarities mentioned above.

Art. 1 of the Romanian Labor Code states that its provisions shall apply to employment relationships, and the legal literature established that the employment relationship arises mainly from the employment contract between the employees and their employers. Law no. 52/2001, which regulates the casual work performed by the day laborer, by way of derogation from the provisions the Labor Code, provides that an employment relationship is established between the labor beneficiary and the day laborer, but an employment contract (which, according to Article 16 of the Labor Code requires written form) is not concluded. As the Court of Justice of the European Union decided in the Land Tirol Case that workers performing occasionally work, even for a single day, fall within the scope of the Framework Agreement on temporary work, and the Albron Catering BV decision stated that between the “employment contract” and “employment relationship” terms there is a relation of subsidiarity, the employment relationship of workers who provide occasional work must produce the same effects, in terms of the concerned person’s rights, with those of an individual employment contract Is concluded that Community legislation conferring rights to workers who have a employment contract or an employment relationship under the national law in force must be construed and enforced in accordance with the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union, with regard to the relationship between the employment contract and the employment relationship.

Extensive confiscation safety measure has a narrow enforcement scope, as it can be ordered only for the crimes expressly provided by law. On the other hand, extended confiscation can cover only property or the equivalent thereof, obtained by the convicted person whilst committing, in a specified time period, other crimes for which the law provides for such safety measures. Prerequisite to be met for the enforcement of extended confiscation is the existence of an obvious disproportion between income earned lawfully by the person convicted and the value of goods obtained through criminal activity for which the law provides for this safety measure.