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 sup...

The present study has as starting point the draft for the revision of the Shareholders’ Rights Directive, (2007/36/EC), aimed at improving the corporate governance of the over 10,000 companies listed on capital markets in Europe.Upholding the ambitious European Commission action plan, characterized by the collocation „fostering an appropriate regime for sharehoders’ rights” (from the public omonyme consultation in 2004), the draft ...