The relationship between the dispute settlement mechanism of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the human right to health is extremely complex and it covers a wide spectrum of ethical, political and juridical issues. The WTO applicable law includes provisions, such as Article XX letter b) of the GATT, that make us believe that the human right to health is determinant in interpreting the obligations of the WTO Members and their refuse to co...

This article aims to assess the impact of changes of Law No. 193/2000 intervened through Law No. 214/2013 for the approval O.U.G. No. 4/2013 on the amendment of Law No. 76/2012 for the implementation of Law No. 134/2010 on the Code of Civil Procedure, and for amending and supplementing of regulation on disputes between professionals and consumers concerning unfair terms in contracts of adhesion. The author deals with an extremely important new...

Changes to Law no. 193/ 2000 on unfair terms in contracts concluded between professionals and consumers by Law no. 76/2012 for the implementation of Law no. 134/2010 on the Code of Civil Procedure , seem to configure, by article 12 and 13, in their new formulation, a novel form, that of class action. This can be promoted, only in the case of contracts of adhesion, by The National Authority for Consumer Protection or by the associations for co...

The paper analyses the new collective actions for elimination of unfair terms from consumer contracts with regard to the effects of the judgments rendered in these cases. The judicial instruments for correcting unfair terms from standard contracts create an incomplete mechanism which produces an improper erga omnes effect.In the context of postponing this regulation, a legislative intervention is required for optimizing judgment...

The coming into force of the new Romanian Civil Procedure Code, on February 15th 2013, has resulted in new rules on the civil trial with a foreign element, repealing the last remaining articles of Law no. 105/1992. This paper is the second of a series which aims to provide a general analisys of the new legal provisions, correlating them with the former regulation and relevant jurisprudence, as well as the European legislation with which it mi...

This article deals with the issue of assignment of litigation rights and how this matter has been regulated in tax law and the relationship between tax issues and civilian regulation and case-law. We followed the definition of the claim against the Romanian state in the light of European Court of Human Rights case-law and how the effects of these decisions are mostly applicable in conceptualizing the tax treatment of property alienation of per...

A new dynamic is underway against tax evasion. In the United States, the “Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act” – FATCA was adopted in 2010, which obliges banks and other financial institutions (including mutual funds pensions) established abroad to report to the US IRS the assets and transactions of their clients, regardless of whether they are US citizens or residents.Transposed to Europe, it allows to know who, among t...

This article aims at analysing the specific issues that may arise in the public procurement proceedings, with a focus on bid-rigging practices and the behaviour of public authorities as forms of anticompetitive conducts expressly regulated by the Competition Act no. 21/1996. Moreover, given the recent practice of the Competition Council, the authors have also presented the particularities of relevant markets definition in the case of anticompe...

In this crisp analysis of the TeliaSonera case, which has recently been adjudicated by the Swedish Court of Appeal, the economic and legal logic supporting the finding of a serious form of abuse of dominance has been exposed. The foundation of the case law dealing with unilateral practices is Michelin, Case 322/81 establishing that Article 102 TFEU refers not only to practices that may cause damage to consumers directly, but also to those whic...

This article represents the second part of the study of error-vice of consent under the new Civil code. In this second part, the author continued the analysis with the types of error (excusable and non-excusable error, assumed and non-assumed risk of error, as well as error in communication or transmission) conditions of error, invoking error and its consequences on the contract. The author considered the judgements expressed by the scholars un...