The interpretation and application of the European Union law, including the caselaw of the Court of Justice of the European Union, by the arbitral tribunals is a subject which is little approached. This is due on the one hand as a result of the confidentiality of the arbitration awards and on the other hand to the specificity of the legal order of the European Union and of the International commercial arbitration. This article aims to illustra...

The interpretation of the Vienna Convention on the International Sale of Goods by the Court of International Commercial Arbitration attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania is made through the analysis of recent case law. The paper examines more than 40 arbitral awards. The analysis takes into account both ratione personae and ratione materiae of the Convention.

This article describes the possibility of regulating corporate law using European Union directives. Issues such as legal basis of those acts, appropriateness and the effects of the directives in the Member States system of law are discussed. Various examples from the Romanian law are also presented.

The legal framework on data protection is in a rethinking process both from the point of view of regulation technique, meaning the pending proposals of Regulation and Directive, and from an institutional perspective. By this new legal framework and also the case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, a system similar to that within the European competition is being put into place, which will gather together the national supervisor...

The European Commission has put forward in 2014 certain consultations dealing with companies, aiming to simplify and increase legislative consistency in that field. Legal effectiveness play the central role, but limits concerning the legal basis in the Treaty should always be checked out. By the most recent of these consultations, the Commission aimed at improving the legal framework of the Directive 2005/56/EC (Cross-Border Merger Directive),...