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In Romania, Article 5 paragraph 1 of Government Decision no. 250/1992 (which usually applies only to the personnel budget units) provides that employees who missed work because they were on sick leave throughout the calendar year are not entitled to the holiday leave corresponding to that year. We emphasize that this (exceptional) provision is not found in the (Romanian) Labour Code (Law no. 53/2003, republished on May 18, 2011). On the other hand, Article 7 paragraph 1 of the Directive 2003/88/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council provides for the right to annual leave of any employee, without exception, as the case law of the European Court of Justice states that this is a principle of European social law. So being, the author concludes that Art. 5 paragraph 1 of Government Decision no. 250/1992 can no longer be applied (to the budgetary personnel); however, through an interpretation consistent with the Directive, the employees who are not part of the budgetary personnel due to the direct effect of the European norm (Directive 2003/88/EC) benefit from the provisions thereof, even if the directive has not yet been transposed into Romanian legislation, especially as, in terms of this discussion, is not contrary to the Romanian Labour Code. -
The author examines the concept of „seniority in magistracy according to the applicable laws (Law no.303/2004 regarding the statute of judges and prosecutors) by referring to the broader concepts of seniority at work, respectively, seniority in a specialty.
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This paper aims to examine the issue of renunciation of inheritance, valence of the right of succession option in every aspect that it involves, to reveal the novelties brought by Law.287/2009 on this matter, and to assess on the usefulness and timeliness thereof.
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The entry into force of the Civil Code leads to significant changes in the existence and manifestation of the right of first refusal, by explicitly enshrining the right of legal first refusal, and the right of conventional first refusal, on one hand and secondly by extending the scope. The emergence of new regulations requires consultation of French regulations, doctrine and practice in these matters so as to achieve an overall understanding of the concept, its functionality and role, and also an analysis of the effects of these provisions on the doctrine and domestic practice.
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Brokerage is an activity which plays an important role in the economy and is exercised in various areas thereof, such as trade, insurance, transport, etc. Despite the importance of this activity and the large number of brokered legal relationships, the first brokerage contract regulation is found in the Civil Code (Law no. 287/2009) which entered into force on October 1, 2011. The brokers are professionals and their goal is to bring together other natural or legal persons to conclude certain contracts specific to the economic sector they operate in. Brokers are third parties to the agreement between the two parties brought into relationship and have only the right to receive the established remuneration as far as the brokered agreement is concluded. In terms of the right to remuneration, the fulfillment of the obligations undertaken by the parties in the brokered contract is irrelevant.
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This study analyzes a series of correlations between the current Civil Code (entered into force on October 1, 2011) and the legislation relating to intellectual creation (works, related creations thereof, databases, inventions, industrial drawings or models, trademarks and geographical indications). In this respect, following a series of considerations concerning the legal terminology in this field, the paper discusses the patrimonial intellectual property rights on the works and trademarks that each of the spouses registered, as well as on scientific or literary manuscripts, drawings, art and invention projects and other similar property, as well as on the revenues due under an intellectual property right. Finally, it draws some considerations related to private international law matters on the legal protection of intellectual creation.
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The cessation of the natural person’s existence shall result in a series of consequences, such as the succession law, the personality rights, and the natural person’s respect and subsequent to his/her death and so on. This study examines the cessation of the natural person’s existence and its consequences, in the light of the provisions of the applicable Romanian Civil Code (Law no. 287/2009, as republished on 15 July 2011 and come into force on the 1st October 2011), pointing out the new regulations in the matter, as compared to the previous laws (into force until the 1st October 2011).
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Prevention and fight against cross-border offences specific to organized crime shall be a major aim assumed by the European Union, an aim which has become imperative in time because of the proliferation of criminality in the matter and implicitly of the high degree of social danger of these categories of criminal offences. The study exposes a comparative analysis of the European Framework normative act, as compared to the provisions contained in the national internal laws, the author revealing that the Romanian criminal law is present interest, and in these circumstances the Romanian legislator shall not operate any amendments for the transposition of this normative act in the Romanian law. Beforehand, this subject represented the subject matter of certain different investigations in the field of judicial cooperation in the criminal matter among the Member States, concretized in studies and items published in specialty journals or international conferences, where the need for the harmonization of laws was pointed out among the Member States. Likewise, this study exposes also certain critical remarks related to certain rules contained in the European normative act, which, according to the author’s opinion, should be supplemented. Finally, this study is distinguished both by the comparative examination of the Council Framework Decision 2008/841/ JHA of 24 October 2008, with the provisions of the national internal law, and by the critical formulated remarks. -
This study examined in a comparative manner the provisions of the Council Framework Decision 2008/675/JHA of 24 July 2008 compared to the Romanian internal provisions related to taking into consideration the criminal convictions decided in another European Union Member State, in the circumstances in which in another Member State a new criminal lawsuit is being initiated against the same individual, but for different facts. The investigation is important since the above mentioned European normative act is classified in the broad range of measures taken for the purpose of the harmonization of laws in the field of judicial cooperation in the criminal matter within the Member States, and the Romanian laws have not been adjusted yet to the European legislative system. Based upon the investigation carried out by the authoress, it results that both the examined European normative act and the internal laws in the matter have certain lacks and for this reason their amendment and supplement is required. The essential contribution of the study shall consist in the examination of certain judicial rules and the identification of certain situations which have to be regulated either by supplementing the European normative act, or by the adoption of another instrument, the same situation being valid as regards the Romanian laws, as well.
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This study proposes to highlight the evolution of the international criminal court, from the establishment of ad-hoc courts, respectively the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Court for Rwanda and up to the daily activity of the International Criminal Court, from the perspective of a very sensitive aspect both from the political and judicial point of view: the criminal liability of remarkable leaders, being responsible for the design, management and control of criminal activities committed during the military conflicts and submitted to trial in these courts. In the content of the study, the author points out the legislative and doctrine-related difficulties which the international judicial bodies faced, the judicial formulas that these bodies chose or created in their action of the application of justice, as well as the current and future orientations of the judicial practice of the International Criminal Court.
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According to the opinion of the author of this study, the periodical verification, during the trial, upon the receipt of the criminal file, but also at time intervals of maximum 60 days, of the legality and validity of the measure of preventive arrest of the defendant, shall be carried out by the court, no matter whether the warrant of preventive arrest was executed or not. Failure to perform this obligation during the trial, even for the non-confined defendant, shall lead to the rightful termination of the preventive arrest.
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This article proposes to examine certain aspects related to the incompatibility of the criminal investigation bodies and of the prosecutor within the criminal lawsuit. The authors take into consideration mainly the incidence of incompatibility cases in the stage of preliminary acts, emphasizing the case of incompatibility set forth in art.48 paragraph (1) letter d) of the Criminal Procedure Code. Through their scientific undertaking, the authors try to demonstrate that incompatibility concerns, to the same extent, both the stage of criminal prosecution, and the stage of preliminary acts. Likewise, the scope of the above mentioned incompatibility case and the decision related to its prosecution are examined from the perspective of the provisions of the (European) Convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms and of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, as well as in the light of the provisions of the new Criminal Procedure Code.
