Legislative changes occurring in recent years in terms of the legal nature of the public procurement contracts were subject to doctrinal debate and generated disputed solutions in the judicial practice. We refer to the definition of public procurement contract as a Commercial Agreement, under Law no. 278/2010 which has amended and supplemented the Government Emergency Ordinance no. 34/2006 regarding the award of public procurement contracts, public works concession contracts and services concession contracts, approved with amendments and supplements by Law No. 337/2006, as subsequently amended and completed. This legislative approach has shown legislator’s inconsistency in the matter, considering that by organic law - the Law of the contentious administrative No. 554/2004 – public procurement contracts are expressly defined as administrative contracts. At the end of July 2012, the National Authority for Regulating and Monitoring Public Procurement has published a draft emergency ordinance designed to bring new amendments and supplements to the Government Emergency Ordinance No. 34/2006. These proposals were successively amended by the issuer, the final form been approved through the Government Emergency Ordinance No. 77/2012. From the point of view of this study, the legislative changes contained in the Government Emergency Ordinance No. 77/2012 regarding the legal nature of the public procurement contracts and, consequently, the courts competent to hear disputes under these contracts are remarkable.

In this study, the author, whilst analyzing the legal nature of Child Protection Commissions (which are organized and operate pursuant to Law No. 272/2004 on the protection and promotion of children’s rights and the Government Decision no. 1437/2004 on the organization methodology and functioning of the Child Protection Commission), concludes that the decisions taken by such committees are not special administrative jurisdiction acts, but simply unilateral administrative acts that are adopted by a specialized body within the county council or the local council of Bucharest sectors, as appropriate. As regards attacking / challenging these decisions in court, usually, the settlement power falls on the common law courts, and not on the administrative ones.

Public-private partnership in the Romanian law is one way of effective management of public or private property owned by the State or territorialadministrative units that meets a particular need of these entities; its object is the execution of works, supply of products or provision of services. In the current legislative context, the public-private institution finds a new legislative establishment through the Law no. 178/2010 concerning the Public-Private Partnership, as amended and supplemented. In the climate of the new regulations in this area, the present study proposes an analysis of private investors selection procedures, considering that the private investor selection is a crucial procedural step in awarding the public private partnership contract, as it concerns the transparency of public authorities in the execution of the contract and aims at ensuring the protection of free competition in awarding such contracts.

The person entitled to succession is the person that has the freedom to choose between the acquiring of the title of heir, by accepting the succession, and the denial of such quality, by waiver. The two sides of the successoral option – acceptance of inheritance and waiver of inheritance – both in their sense of subjective rights and in the sense of legal acts must be appreciated and understood in correlation with other notions and institutions, in the first place of the law of succession, and also belonging to other matters of civil law. In this context, there are presented some aspects of regulating the successoral option, which have been interpreted otherwise by doctrine or which have the potential for controversy, among others, as a result of shortcomings in phrasing of some texts of the Civil Code or by failing to observe some relationships they have, as mentioned above, with other legal notions and institutions.

At the crossroads of general regulations concerning both public and private property in the newly enacted Civil code, of specific rules concerning the concession of public assets or the exercise by the local public authorities of their powers relating to the administration of public and private domain of the administrative-territorial units as well as of even more specific provisions in the public-private partnership law, the legal regime of assets involved in public-private partnership projects requires detailed attention. Designing and understanding such legal structure combining old and new regulation may contribute to the sucessful application of regulations concerning public-private partnerships.