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...

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 first of four parts which aim 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 mig...

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...

Public procurement in Romania is regulated, primarily, by the Emergency Government Ordinance no. 34/2006 regarding the award of the public procurement contracts, public works concession contracts and services concession contracts, with the subsequent amendments. According to this ordinance, any person considering his or her rights to have been harmed and having a legitimate interest by an act of the contracting authority thought to be irregul...

The entry into force of Regulation (EC) no. 1346/2000 constituted the adoption of a single instrument in the EU Member States regulating the main issues of private international law in matters of insolvency proceedings.The regulation has a complex structure, its provisions providing support in dealing with insolvency proceedings with cross-border elements, starting with jurisdiction rules for determining the courts having competence to r...

In this paper, I will discuss about the problem of car pollution tax, a tax liability which has raised many issues both technically and in the practice of national courts. In a systematic manner, I will turn on issues concerning the conflict of duty with the norms of the European Union, interventions of the European Court of Justice in similar cases, also analyzing the risk of completion of infringement procedure by the European Commission and...

Council Regulation (EC) No. 1346/2000 on insolvency proceedings is a key instrument of European law applicable in judicial cooperation regarding procedures with cross-border effects, which ensures efficient and effective functioning of these procedures and which has the main objective of imposing coordination between measures to be taken on an insolvent debtor’s assets.The regulation governs private international law aspects relevan...