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Information technology changed the way we relate to information as any data posted on the Internet can remain accessible indefinitely. On the one hand this ease of access undoubtedly was beneficial for the freedom of expression and information, but on the other hand the fundamental right to privacy of natural persons seems under threat in the absence of an adequate legal mechanism that would ensure that their past will not haunt them ad vitam aeternam. Last year, the French Council of State has requested the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for a preliminary ruling on the territorial scope of the right to be digitally forgotten. Although, since the Google Spain case, EU citizens enjoy an online right to be forgotten, its territorial application is yet to be determined. As such, this paper discusses the Opinion of the Advocate General in the Google Case (C-507/17), opinion which could offer a glimpse into the future ruling of the ECJ on this matter. In our analysis, we will also show the reasons why the ECJ’s decision is only a step in defining the right to digital oblivion, not at all an end point. -
The regulation of the Civil Code on periodic ownership was preceded by the Law No 282/2002 and by the Government Emergency Ordinance No 14/2011, which have transposed the European Directives concerning consumer protection with regard to the utilisation or time-limited use of movable and immovable assets. As a legal modality of the ownership right, the characters of the periodic ownership, although qualified by Article 646 (1) of the Civil Code, which refers to Article 687 of the Civil Code, as a form of forced co-ownership, is delimited by it. The present study outlines these elements of difference, the specificity of periodic ownership as real right, the rights and obligations of the co-owners in the exercise of the prerogatives arising from this quality. Periodic ownership is a particular case of forced co-ownership, of a temporary nature, because several people successively and repetitively exercise the attribute of use, specific to the ownership right, over a movable or immovable asset, at fixed intervals of equal or unequal duration. This form of ownership implies an overlapping of the real right of each co-owner over the entire asset, but whose use is limited during one year to the duration indicated in the ownership title. The critical aspects concerning the relations between the co-owners are cantoned to the provisions of Article 691 (2) of the Civil Code on the sanction of excluding the co-owner who, through his conduct, causes to another co-owner a serious disturbance in the exercise of the prerogatives of the periodic ownership right. -
Faptul că autoturismul în litigiu a făcut obiectul mai multor vânzări succesive și s-a constatat că a fost furat, deschizându-se un proces penal împotriva autorului furtului, nu înseamnă că reclamanta își putea recupera prejudiciul constând în plata prețului plătit. În ceea ce o privește pe reclamantă, prin Ordonanța din data de 20 ianuarie 2015 a Parchetului de pe lângă Judecătoria Galați s-a dispus clasarea cauzei, reținându-se în motivare faptul că nu au fost identificate indicii care să conducă la concluzia că reclamanta ar fi cunoscut faptul că bunul era furat. Tot în procesul penal, prin Ordonanța din 27 august 2014 a Parchetului de pe lângă Judecătoria Galați s-a dispus restituirea autoturismului către proprietar, astfel că reclamanta, care devenise proprietara autoturismului în baza contractului de vânzare-cumpărare încheiat cu pârâtul, l-a predat organelor de cercetare penală, care în baza procesului-verbal din 16 septembrie 2014 l-au restituit proprietarului. În aceste condiții, în mod corect prima instanță a statuat că temeiul obligației a cărei executare este urmărită este contractual, iar, potrivit dispoziției art. 1695 alin. (1) C.civ., vânzătorul este de drept obligat să îl garanteze pe cumpărător împotriva evicțiunii. (Tribunalul Galați, Decizia civilă nr. 131 din 1 februarie 2018, definitivă)1 -
The study is considered to be a valuable examination from a theoretical perspective of recent judicial practice, an examination which often shows argumented critical accents, all relating to the offence newly introduced in the Criminal Code in force since 1 February 2014, respectively the violation of the professional headquarters. One by one, illustrating concrete cases from the practice of the Romanian courts, there are identified difficulties arising from the interpretation and application of the norm of incrimination included in Article 225 of the Criminal Code. Such elements are the following: the notion of „headquarters”, the correct identification of the injured person or the adequate identification of the social value protected by the norm of incrimination. The study is valuable in that it argues the opinions expressed by consistently invoking some aspects included in the preambles of some decisions of the European Court of Human Rights.
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The study analyzes the opinion on the repeal of the filter procedure when the review in the civil trial is within the competence of the High Court of Cassation and Justice. The author presents the analysis of the manner the filter procedure was regulated by the Law No 134/2010, the Civil Procedure Code and the arguments for which it considers that the repeal of this procedure is not justified. The result of the study is reflected in the opinion according to which the filtering procedure had to be maintained, for the settlement of the reviews in the civil trial, by the supreme court. The filter procedure was first introduced in the civil processual legislation by the Government Emergency Ordinance No 58/2003. Those provisions introduced a new procedure of settlement of the review, irrespective of the court which settled the review, that of the admissibility in principle of the review, prior to the actual settlement of the application for review, which carried out the preliminary examination of the application for review. By the Law No 134/2010 the filter procedure has been regulated only in case the review was settled by the High Court of Cassation and Justice. By the Law No 310/2018, amending and supplementing the Civil Procedure Code, the filtering procedure has been repealed although, in the initial form, it was proposed to put the text of Article 493 of the Civil Procedure Code in agreement with the provisions of the Decision of the Constitutional Court No 839/2015, which has declared unconstitutional the phrase „or that the review is manifestly unfounded”. In this respect, the text of Article 493 (5) of the Civil Procedure Code should have been as follows: „In case the panel unanimously agrees that the review does not meet the formal requirements, that the grounds invoked and their development do not fall within those provided by Article 488, it shall cancel the review by a reasoned decision, pronounced without the summoning of the parties, which is not subject to any means of appeal. The decision shall be communicated to the parties”. Maintaining the filter procedure, in our opinion, contributes to decongesting of the supreme court to settle the reviews that do not meet the conditions for exercising this extraordinary means of appeal.
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This article analyzes the particularities of the suspension by judgment of the enforcement of administrative acts. The legal institution of suspension of the enforcement of administrative acts is a legal instrument made available to the persons claiming to be injured and constitutes a guarantee against the producing of some irreparable damage. The author investigates the conditions and legal effects of the suspension of the enforcement of the administrative act after formulating the prior complaint and the suspension requested in the main proceedings, including also some proposals de lege ferenda. The research is carried out taking into account the latest amendments to the Law on administrative disputes No 554/2004 by the Law No 212/2018 amending and supplementing the Law on administrative disputes No 554/2004 and other normative acts. Also, within this research, the author refers to the decisions of the Constitutional Court on the pleas of unconstitutionality raised in this matter. -
Termination of payments or insolvency is the patrimonial state of an entrepreneur that is outlined by the impossibility of creditors to pay. In this case, a collective procedure is in place to cover the insolvency debtor’s liability, a procedure governed by the provisions of Law No 85/2014 on insolvency and insolvency prevention procedures. This procedure, although it is a collective one, retains its contradictory character, litigious issues being usually settled with parties summoning. The fundamental principles of the civil process governed by the Civil Procedure Code also apply to insolvency. The Civil Procedure Code is the common law of insolvency where the Insolvency Law does not contain special rules. The way in which the participants in the procedure are summoned or notified, as well as the manner in which the communications of procedural documents and information in the insolvency proceedings are made, are simplified and dematerialized. Notifications and communications are made through the Insolvency Procedures Bulletin (BPI), an electronic publication managed by the Trade Registry. Anyone can get information on a business partner’s insolvency procedure through a simple search in this database.
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In this article, the author proposes to make some theoretical and practical reflections on the definition of the law. Until now, in no law school and no judicial culture system it was formulated a definition of the law, to be accepted as a universal definition. Latin jurists – to whom the entire European judicial civilization is related – have not even been preoccupied with defining the law, but they have left us as legacy several definitions of the law, that is of positive law. The author points out that the scientific concept of law depends on the particularities of the judicial regulation of the social relations, which are different from country to country and from one national judicial system to another. It would be very difficult to formulate a universal definition of the law, given that each people has its own psycho-social characteristics which can not be accommodated with similar characteristics of other peoples. The author considers that in democratic societies, based on the principles of the state of law and which have at the centre of their public policies the individual, through law it is achieved a balance between the power of the state and the autonomy of the individual will. By law it is ensured the respect for the fundamental values of the nation, a democratic government centred on the sovereign will of the nation, as well as the individual rights and freedoms of citizens. In conclusion, the author points out that the law-making process in any state must be legitimate, namely it must express the will and fundamental demands of the citizens, the most general interests of the population. Finally, the author proposes a set of formal requirements-criteria for assessing the laws passed by the Parliament.
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In this analysis, the author carries out a study of the continued offence regulated by the Criminal Code of Romania, covering both theoretical and practical aspects, proposing different solutions in the determination of legal classifications according to the concrete circumstances of the cases. The analysis proceeds from the regulatory framework of the continued offence, continues with doctrinal references and argues or counter-argues with its own arguments, expressing the author’s own opinion. Particularly, when the conditions of the continued offence are analyzed, the one that regards the factual homogeneity of the material acts that form the legal unity of the offence is emphasized. -
This study is an analysis of the conditions of admissibility by the procedure covered by Article 56 of the Law No 254/2013 of complaints made by the convicted persons in connection with the awarding of compensation days for inadequate conditions of accommodation and the cancellation of the wage garnishment, measure set up by the tax enforcement bodies in order to recover judicial expenses due to the state by those persons. I have chosen to analyse these two situations in the context in which the judge of surveillance of deprivation of liberty is increasingly faced with such complaints from private persons deprived of liberty claiming violation of rights as a result of the application of these two measures. For the presentation of legal problems and the situation I used national case law of judges of surveillance of deprivation of liberty, but also the national case law of the courts.
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The present analysis was carried out in order to clarify the situation in which the heads of claim do not have a clear and justified correspondent with the arguments presented in the statement of claim, as well as possible procedural solutions which can resolve such an issue. From the sources analyzed so far, it appears that there is no straight forward solution for this situation neither in the legal provisions, case law or speciality lectures. The premise of our study consists in the situation in which a claimant submits a request containing only one head of claim, although the content of the statement of claim includes also arguments and grounds which are not related to the one and only head of claim which was mentioned in the application, because they refer to different legal topics which are not properly expressed at the beginning of the statement of claim, as head of claim. The present analysis concerns the issues arising from the above mentioned situation both for the claimant and defendant, but also which are the remedies at their hand if such situations will occur. In addition to this, the study presents also the remedies available from the courts’ perspective if such a situation appears in different phases of the trial, but also the consequences of this situation if the issue is not addressed properly by the parties or by the court before the issuance of the court ruling.
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Given that the new General Data Protection Regulation has influenced most of the industrial sectors, new challenges in life science area have also been generated, particularly those regarding the effective protection of the personal data of the patients – subjects to clinical trials. The new changes focus mainly on how data and the rights of the data subjects are perceived by these persons, as well as the controllers and processors. This study aims to identify and determine the impact of this regulation on clinical trials and patient engagement policies, having also into consideration the derogations from the rights of data subjects for the purpose of scientific research. Also, we seek to define concepts such as sensitive data, health data, clinical trial data, the obtained results following the clinical trials, data processing, as well as notions related to the parties involved – either the patients or CROs (contract research organizations) understood through the meaning of the terms of natural person or controller, processor, recipient respectively. We want to clarify to what extent the clinical trials can be included in the scientific research that the Regulation refers to and whether its application in this area makes a distinction between the goals of the research: either the one of profit-making or the one of developing the medical knowledge.
