In the present study, the author analyses the matter of the market abuse sanctioning policy in Europe and especially in Romania. The study starts with a short presentation of the sanctioning policy in the Member States. At this level, two main approaches can be identified: (i) the „both” approach. In this approach, market abuse can give rise both to administrative and criminal sanctions and (ii) the “either or” approach. In this approach, nat...

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...

The author of this article details one of newly-regulated institutions under the New Civil Procedure Code of Romania in the matter of ensuring a unitary case law, namely the motion to rule in principle on certain legal matters, filed to the High Court of Cassation and Justice, by which certain courts of law may request the highest court to issue a preliminary ruling on a newly-emerged legal issue that was referred to them. Other procedural mea...

The article investigates legal controversies arisen in practice regarding the status of creditors who benefit from a mortgage on the banking account of the debtor, when in concurrence with other creditors who aim to recover their receivables from the same person. With a special view at forced execution and insolvency procedures, the authors provide an analysis of the different approaches used by bank-account mortgagees in order to justify their...

The Civil Code of 1864 assigned one Article to the error – vice of consent, hence, the majority of the issues and considerations related to the error being built and debated at a doctrinal level. The new Civil code has another approach. The regulation of error is more abudant, i.e. seven Articles insted of one Article, some of the regulated issues being the ones already debated at doctrinal level under the Civil Code of 1864, e.g. error of la...

This study aims to examine the current state of national regulations on insider information, as well as their legal status. The highly technical nature of this study compels us to explain and analyze, at the same time, some key concepts for understanding the subject.Without trying to fully investigate the subject matter, the paper starts with an overview of the American background which created for the first time the need to regulate the ...

The present study primarily establishes a meta-textual framework concerning the public-private partnership, emphasizing in a comparative manner the definitions offered by the international doctrine and the relevant public entities.Moreover, in order to better describe the singular character of this type of collaboration, we shall schematically present its generic features in regard to the different applications that appear in contractual...

European competition law refers to the activities of undertakings. Although the treaty does not define the concept of an undertaking, the European Court of Justice has consistently held that any entity engaged in an economic activity, irrespective of its legal form and the way in which it is financed, must be categorised as an undertaking.Any activity consisting in offering goods or services on a given market is an economic activity. Acc...

Along with the entry into force of the new Civil Procedure Code, the regularization procedure of the statement of claim and the preliminary procedure of mediation, that were optional under the previous regulation, became mandatory with several circumstantiation. A brief analysis of the new regulation is highly necessary.Within this study, many questions to be asked in the near future by both law practitioners and litigants are risen and...

This article analyzes the effects produced by the generalization of the appeal in the context of the provisions of the New Code of Civil Procedure. Providing the litigants in a civil action, including the professionals, with the possibility of filing an appeal clearly brings up certain advantages: the possibility to invoke any grounds of illegality and groundlessness, the check of all grounds of fact and of law, the administration of new eviden...