The author points out that article 77 of the new Criminal Code reassessed the circumstances having the ability to emphasize a high degree of social danger of the committed offence and of the offender. Thus, the scope of the circumstance relates to the perpetration of the offence by a person being in a preordinate intoxicated condition which may be generated besides the alcohol, by other psychoactive substances, whose consumption represents a breach of a legal or medical interdiction. The aggravation of the criminal liability has been waived in case the offence is committed for infamous reasons, as the content of this circumstance has never been precisely determined by the doctrine and jurisprudence. A new aggravating circumstance has been introduced consisting in the perpetration of the offence by taking advantage of the obvious vulnerable condition of the injured person due to his/her age, health condition, disability of due to some other grounds, as such a circumstance emphasizes a high level of gravity of the offence, but also a degree of increased injuriousness of the offender. Another novelty item is represented by the waiver to the category of judicial aggravating circumstances, because the imprecise manner in which they are regulated would be situated at the edge limit of the principle of the predictable nature of law.

The forgery of credit titles or payment instruments represents an offence prejudicing the financial stability of the monetary system. In this article, the author deals with the matter of the scope of the terms such as credit title and payment instrument, examining the concrete ways of committing the offence in the judicial practice of the courts, as well. The author states that close attention should have been paid to explain the amendment of constituent items of the offence in the explanatory statement accompanying the new Criminal Code, in order to avoid the differences related to interpretation in the matter and in the judicial practice.

In this study, the author analyzes the essential changes that the year 2011 has brought with respect to the dismissal of the trade union leader under Law no. 40/2011 (amending and supplementing the Labour Code), and also under Law no. 62/2011 regarding social dialogue. At the end of the analysis, the author concludes that these changes are both in accordance with the Romanian Constitution, as well as with the applicable European regulations.

The value competence in the criminal matter represents a form of material competence, whose non-observance is sanctioned by absolute nullity. In this article the author describes theoretical and practical aspects of competence depending on the value criterion and carries out a comparative examination between the current and the future criminal and criminal proceedings regulation of the phrase of „very serious consequences”. Likewise, the author identifies possible solutions to unify the judicial practice, considering that the requirement of the predictable nature of law and the principle of judicial equal treatment require the establishment of the competence depending on its value by reference to the time of occurrence of the material damage due to offence and to its real value.

Law no. 202/2010 on certain measures to accelerate lawsuits’ settlement introduces into the Criminal Code, by art. 741 of the Criminal Code, a series of provisions in favor of the charged person or of the defendant who has committed certain economic offences and covered the damage in full, until the settlement of the cause of action in the court of the first instance. The author considers that these provisions could be construed as certain legal and real attenuating circumstances, however having a special regime, which often generates difficulties related to the interpretation and enforcement in the courts’ practice. However deemed as unconstitutional in May 2011, the provisions of the above-mentioned article are being enforced regarding the offences committed until its expiry date, pursuant to mitior lex principle.