The European Commission recently finalized a case regarding an alleged concerted practice involving several publishers and Apple on the market for e-book commercialization, by accepting commitments proposed by the parties in response to the Commission’s anticompetitive concerns.The relevance of this decision results from the peculiarities of the factual background which, in principle, may render questionable the extent to which thi...

The scope of this analysis is to evaluate the possibility for an economic agent to be nomineed as subcontractor declared by several bidders within the same public procurement contract award procedure, in light of the provisions of Article 46 of G.E.O. No. 34/2006. Key...

The capital market, the ensemble of relations and mechanisms through which available funds are attracted from the economy and placed with economic agents or public and private entities, on long and medium terms, has movable valuables at its core (financial instruments specific to a market economy).Shares, movable valuables with variable income, are highlighted in particular through the rights incurring from the ownership of shares, amon...

Development of legal relations in sport and breeding international disputes in its field, led to the need to create an international body to ensure resolving disputes in a quick and inexpensive manner. Established for this purpose, the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne has become a prestigious institution in the field of sports arbitrage, developing its own jurisprudence which is a landmark in international sport relations. ...

This paper will discuss the evolution of the ECJ’s case law on the field of sports betting and gambling. Member States remain competent to regulate gambling and sports betting and to structure their national policies on these areas. The gambling and sports betting market is part of the internal market and as a matter of fact is subjected to the rules guaranteeing the smooth operation of the internal market. The case law of the ECJ will be dis...

Under this third part of the analysis regarding the resolution and the annulment of contracts as provided under the new Civil Code, the authors are analysing the effects of the resolution, the abatement of provisions, the partial resolution and the prescription of the right to be reimbursed the provisions rendered under the annulled agreement. Moreover, a comparability analysis between the resolution and other methods of agreement cancellation...

Audio-visual rights, named common TV rights, experienced a great development în the last decade. Management either individually or collectively of such rights has generated huge revenues for sports bodies (federations, leagues, clubs) as well as specific issues of competition law and intellectual property both nationally and internationally. In European football these issues have acquired a special connotation and Commission decisions are a go...