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The author analyzes the rules of Directive 2001/23/EC of March 12, 2001 on the appropriation of the European Union Member States’ laws relating to the safeguarding of employees’ rights in the event of transfers of undertakings, businesses or parts of undertakings or establishments, by reference to the rules of the Labor Code (republished) and the provisions of Law no. 64/2006 on the protection of employees’ rights for transfers of undertakings, business or parts thereof; this comparative analysis reached some interesting conclusions useful both for theorists, and practitioners. -
In this study, the author examines the relevant aspects for proper understanding of the regulations set out in a chapter of the new Romanian Criminal Code (Law no. 286/2009, as subsequently amended and supplemented) entitled “State border crimes”. It was noted that such a chapter has no counterpart in the Criminal Code regulations, which entered into force in 1969; this does not mean it is an absolute novelty in the Romanian legal landscape. The study makes an interesting comparison between the wordings included in the subdivision of the new Criminal Code and the ones in Government Emergency Ordinance no. 105/2001 and Government Emergency Ordinance no. 194/2002 which have served as inspiration for the legislator.
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Fraudulent bankruptcy is one of the criminal law’s “Cinderellas” because the legislator was highly oscillating with regard to the sanctioning regime, the rules indicting this deed suffered frequent changes of the contents and the seat of the matter was found in the recent years in several legal acts (the Commercial Code, Law no. 31/1990, Law no. 64/1995, Law no. 85/2006 and the 2009 Criminal Code). This study focuses both on the analysis of the fraudulent bankruptcy offense under the new Criminal Code and on the specific concepts.
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The authors comment on the provisions of art. 1013 to 1024 of the new Romanian Code of Civil Procedure (Law no. 134/2010 of the Code of Civil Procedure, republished in the “Official Gazette of Romania”, Part I, no. 545 of 3 August 2012 and entered into force on 15 February 2013) on the instruction payment special procedure, whereby the legislator establishes uniform rules for combating the late payment of certain amounts of money, bringing together the provisions previously established by the two laws, currently repealed (Government Ordinance no. 5/2001 and Government Emergency Ordinance no. 119/2007). When stating the conclusions of the study, the authors welcome the legislative solution and point out that the payment instruction procedure can be used concurrently with the small claims procedure (art. 1025 to 1032 Civil Procedure Code), as these two special procedures do not exclude each other.
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In this study, the author provides a critical analysis of the content of art. 2322 of the Civil Code that has entered into force on 1 October 2011, regulating for the first time, in terms of legislation, autonomous guarantee instrument of the letter of comfort. Given the lack of doctrinal explanations and of the Romanian jurisprudence in this regard, the author makes a comparative law analysis regarding the use of this instrument, employing as reference points the Common Law systems and Continental Law systems based on the existence of a Civil Code. This instrument is known since the early 1960s by the international transactions practice, but the corresponding case law is quite limited and in some legislation, although frequently used, letters of comfort are not subject to an expressis verbis legislative regulation. The author emphasizes the Romanian Civil Code modern nature together with the call for a consistent use, in practice, of this legal institution.
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The present study aims mainly to identify those wordings in Law no. 287/ 2009 on the Civil Code which apply to testamentary inheritance issues that have certain shortcomings, and to find, as much as possible, the best solutions for remediation thereof.
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Elementul material al infracțiunii de înșelãciune existã distinct de elementul material al infracțiunii de fals în înscrisuri sub semnãturã privatã, activitatea de falsificare a înscrisurilor și folosirea lor în vederea producerii de consecințe juridice consumându-se la momentul sesizãrii instanței, activitatea ulterioarã desfãșuratã de inculpat de inducere în eroare a pãrților vãtãmate în scopul obținerii unui folos material injust realizând latura obiectivã a infracțiunii de înșelãciune, rãmasã în forma tentativei (cu notã criticã) -
Following the repeal of the legal provisions set forth in the Law. 83/1995 and then in the Law. 130/1999, which generally regulated the situations in which, instead of concluding an individual employment agreement, a civil agreement for services could be concluded, the question arises in which cases and under which conditions such civil agreements can be concluded at present, under legal circumstances. In the article below the author studies this problem and draws up finally, as well, some proposals de lege ferenda to avoid any discussions and controversies in the field.
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This study aims to analyze certain particular problems in the execution of the legal employment relationships, namely the work performed without the conclusion of an individual employment agreement and the noncompliance between the contractual clauses and the manner (in fact) of the execution of the contractual rights and obligations. These cases were grouped under the denomination of work wholly or partially dissimulated. After identifying the situations leading to the dissimulated work, the analysis of the causes that determine it and of the effects that it generates, any proposals are formulated for the purpose of increasing the penalties against those who hide the real way of the execution of the work.
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The question of the public legal aid in civil matters was settled by the Government of Romania by issuing the Government Emergency Ordinance no. 51/2008 on legal aid in civil matters. However, the regulation issued in relation to public legal aid in civil matters fails to cover all situations that may arise in legal practice, one of the unregulated issues referring to the applications made by several people together, in which case the court fees stamp are due jointly.
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This study examines the issue of dialogue between the Court of Justice of the European Union and the constitutional courts of the Member States of the European Union, with special reference to the Constitutional Court of Romania, and from this perspective, the effects of integration into the European Union and the transnational judicial dialogue they produce within the national legal systems.
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This article aims to present the main aspects of the legal marriage age, as governed by the new Romanian Civil Code. After a brief introductory part, the legal provisions regulating marriage at the age of majority are examined. Further, the provisions of the Civil Code regulating marriage before the age of majority are examined, and the conditions under which the minor may enter into marriage are debated: the child reaches the age of 16, there are good reasons, the existence of a medical certificate, the existence of consents required by law, respectively the parents’ consent or the consent of one of their parents or if appropriate, of the guardian and in their absence, of the person or authority which was entitled to exercise the parental rights and the guardianship court authorization. In the final part the conclusions drawn from this study are highlighted.
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ACȚIUNE CIVILÃ. ASIGURÃTOR DE RÃSPUNDERE CIVILÃ În conformitate cu dispozițiile Legii nr. 136/1995, instanța dispune obligarea asigurãtorului de rãspundere civilã, în mod direct, în limita obligației sale contractuale, la plata despãgubirilor cãtre partea civilã (Înalta Curte de Casație și Justiție, Secția penalã, decizia nr. 3405 din 23 octombrie 2012). -
Potrivit art. 2781 alin. (8) lit. c) C.pr.pen., judecãtorul pronunțã soluția: „admite plângerea, prin încheiere, desființeazã rezoluția sau ordonanța atacatã și, când probele existente la dosar sunt suficiente, reține cauza spre judecare, în complet legal constituit, dispozițiile privind judecata în primã instanțã și cãile de atac aplicându-se în mod corespunzãtor”(cu notã criticã).
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The article analyzes the specific references that an offence notice has to contain compulsorily, stating an offence of the regime of driving on public roads. Although the elements of the road traffic report shall be determined by the framework law in the contravention matter, respectively the Government Ordinance no. 2/2001, the specificity of the road traffic offenses require certain specific features of these notices, especially about the description way of the act recorded as an offence, about the legal classification of the offense and the application of additional sanctions.
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The article is based on a constant case law of the Constitutional Court of Romania where the expression of “interstitial rule” appears as a leitmotif. Under this rule, any rule of law of the European Union whose content is sufficiently clear, precise and unambiguous, and at the same time proves a certain level of constitutional relevance, will be applied within a compliance control operated by the constitutional court. Therefore, these conditions are examined in detail and also some legal proposition is designed to facilitate the situation of the direct “beneficiary” of such an enforcement – the European litigant.
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The sanction for the non-observance of the right of access to justice in the case of Iosif v. Romania, obliged the Romanian State to take the necessary measures to prevent similar breaches in the future. Undoubtedly, however, a non-unitary case law exists further in the matter of granting the public legal aid in relation to the bail. To allow the inadmissibility of the exemption or decrease of the bail amount – majority in practice – involves, in the author’s opinion, to accept the imposition of a real “obstacle” to the free access to justice. Therefore, the granting of the public legal aid regarding the stamp duty is futile as long as the possibility of granting the public legal aid in relation to the bail payment, is not recognized.
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The Competition Law no. 21/1996 and the secondary regulations issued for its enforcement advise the parties involved in a merger, assessed as having serious doubts with a normal competitive environment, to propose to the Competition Council a number of commitments aimed at removing these doubts and ultimately lead to achieving a decision authorizing the notified transaction. The purpose of this article is to analyze, on the one hand, the current legal framework of the commitments which may be undertaken by the parties in the context of certain mergers, the procedure for the proposal, the undertake and the approval of the commitments and, on the other hand, the practice of the Competition Council on this topic.
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The public order provisions supplement the law of parties. Their relevance is optional and subject to the compliance of the behaviour of the party at fault. In case of non-compliance, specific responsibility for European funds for the public procurement contracts financed from these funds is the legal means that will restore the contractual order. This specific responsibility represents a legal “lever” which allows to the state bodies to intervene in any situation and whenever it finds irregularities in the management of the European funds. The way of creating the legal liability relationship raised more controversy, whose substance will be displayed below. -
In this study, the author examines whether after 1 October 2011 (when the new Romanian Civil Code entered into force), to what extent the creditor may enforce the shares (portions of the share capital of the limited – liability – company) belonging to its debtor, corroborating art. 66 of the Law no. 31/1990 on companies by Art. 1887 of the new Civil Code. One reaches the conclusion that the enforcement of the creditor on the shares in question is more illusory than real. That is, a number of de lege ferenda proposals are made, meaning that the right of enforcement on the debtor’s shares should change from a utopia into a reality.
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The article approaches some aspects of novelty enshrined in the new Code of Civil Procedure, absent in the old regulation. Thus, we examined and analyzed the provisions of art. 244 of the new Code of Civil Procedure, which establishes, as a general rule, the obligation of the court to grant a hearing date for the submission of written observations. The relevance of the art. 244 is also examined in relation to the prosecutor, the exceptions to the general rule are analyzed, as well as the possibility that the parties have to submit addenda to the written observations, upon closure of the debates, according to art. 394 para. (2) of the Civil Procedure Code. Finally, the court proceeding is reviewed in case the party declares a different remedy than that determined by the court, namely if the court decides a wrong remedy.
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Reiterating his view [in that the commercial law is not an autonomous branch of law, but is part of the Romanian civil law, with effect from 1 October 2011, since the new Romanian Civil Code entered into force (Law no. 287/2009, as republished) Code essentially “of monistic nature”], the author criticizes the view (to the contrary) of certain theorists and practitioners, focusing on art. 2557 para. (2) of the Code, as well as the existence – undisputed – of the legal discipline called the international trade law.
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Prin noțiunea de preț serios, astfel cum prevãd dispozițiile art. 1303 C.civ. anterior (1864), se înțelege prețul care constituie o cauzã suficientã a obligației luate de vânzãtor de a transmite dreptul de proprietate asupra bunului ce formeazã obiectul vânzãrii. -
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.
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This study was occasioned by the different manner in which the National Council for Solving Complaints and the courts have construed the laws under which the successful tenderer in the public procurement procedure is granted a right of access to a court, often bringing adverse procedural consequences. Although the jurisprudential solutions analyzed were delivered under the old procedural rules, we find that the latest amendments made to both the Government Emergency Ordinance no. 34/2006 and the Code of Civil Procedure were not a remedy for the deficiencies noted, as the ambiguity of the laws stating that the successful tenderer can be party to the administrative jurisdictional procedure, namely party in a complaint to the court, is a source of legal uncertainty.
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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.
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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.
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According to the Romanian legislation in the field, which existed prior to the entry into force of the new (Romanian) Code of Civil Procedure (15 February 2013) and labor addressing conflicts (disputes), the tribunal was usually the first instance court having jurisdiction to hear and the court of appeal had jurisdiction only on a single remedy at law (the appeal). After the entry into force of the new Code of Civil Procedure (Law no. 134/ 2010, republished on 3 August 2012), the situation has changed in that against the sentence of the first instance court (the tribunal) there is (except for the revision) a single remedy at law i.e. the appeal (within the Court of Appeal jurisdiction), appeal which is an ordinary, devolutive remedy at law. In this study, the authors analyze this situation stressing that, in principle, is the better for the parties to have nothing but the appeal (besides the revision) as remedy at law, instead of solely the recourse.
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In this study, the author carried out an analysis of the provisions of Article 200 of the new (Romanian) Code of Civil Procedure, which thoroughly regulates the checking of the application for summons subsequent to the registration and adjustment thereof (should it not include all the necessary data).
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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.
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This study aims to identify ways to reflect in the special law (Law no. 72/ 2013) some genuine civil law guiding ideas, lato sensu, and some principles applicable to the relationships between professionals, but also the extent to which the application of these principles to the cases envisaged by the legislator in the special regulation referred contributes to the purpose of the law concerned.
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The new Romanian Civil Code (Law no. 287/2009, republished) contains a new concept, namely the sanction of clauses deemed unwritten, which are incident to all areas covered by the Civil Code. In this study, the author makes a comprehensive analysis of this new concept, concluding that we are faced with an autonomous sanction. Although it has an autonomous nature, with regard to its legal system, the author believes that this autonomous sanction is, by analogy, subject to the rules for invalidity.
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A “natural right” being most profoundly democratic not only retained, despite the historical vicissitudes, its intrinsic moral values, but due to the constant and firm “juridicization”, in another historical ambience, has increased these values and the implications of their valorization, while granting plenary sense to the contemporary “rule of law”, ensuring above all - according to the beautiful and meaningful saying of a historical figure - the protection of the “powerless people in front of power”: the right to request the assistance of a judge or the right of access to a judge. Article 5 of the Code of Civil Procedure recalls us that right, but unfortunately, as it does, requires again to make any effort for the consistent and undoubtedly useful understanding from the social point of view of its purposes.
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The study hereunder examines the ways of exercising the autonomy of will and the reflection of the principle of freedom of contract in civil procedural law. As freedom of contract, like any other freedom in fact, is not absolute or unlimited, the author quests the ways in which, within the framework of civil procedural law institutions, there are covered and operate certain assumptions which may constitute limits to the freedom of contract. In this perspective, we shall have in view institutions such as legal contracts, mediation or arbitration. -
Dispozițiile art. 9 lit. b) din Regulamentul CE nr. 44/2001 aratã cã un asigurator care are domiciliul pe teritoriul unui stat membru poate fi acționat în justiție în alt stat membru, în cazul acțiunilor intentate de cãtre deținãtorul poliței de asigurare, asigurat sau un beneficiar, în fața instanțelor de la locul unde este domiciliat reclamantul.
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The author highlights the manner in which the observance of fundamental rights enshrined and guaranteed under the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union is ensured by the national constitutional rules and the main provisions of the Civil Code, the Code of Civil Procedure, the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure, as well as by domestic judicial courts that interpret and apply the domestic or European law, on a case-by-case basis. At the same time, the study also presents the case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union relevant in the matter of ensuring access to justice, the right to a fair trial, as well as the relationship between EU law and the national law relating to judicial organization. In this regulatory and jurisprudential framework, the author considers that compliance with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union moves toward being enforced by national courts, along with the (European) Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
