Law No. 120/2026: Less formalism for lawyers’ representation in civil status matters

Costaș, Negru & Associates are pleased to present a legislative amendment of significant practical importance regarding how certain civil status applications may be filed. Law No. 120 of 3 July 2026, published in the Official Gazette No. 550 of 3 July 2026, amended Article 591 of the republished Law No. 119/1996 on civil status records. […]

Compensation provided for by Emergency Ordinance no. 106/2022. Fuel price reductions. Confirmation of the merchant’s right to receive compensation for price reductions granted.

Costaș, Negru & Asociații presents today a successfully concluded tax case regarding the compensation owed to economic operators under Emergency Ordinance (O.U.G.) no. 106/2022. Following the final ruling to annul the tax assessment decision, the represented company was able to recover the amount unlawfully collected from it—exceeding 2 million lei—along with the associated tax interest. […]

Contract interpretation. The service provider’s obligation to pay the unrecovered VAT from the Member States of the European Union

The Costaș, Negru & Associates team has recently obtained a favourable decision in a case which tackled the contractual liability of an accounting services provider. The case has reached the final phase of the extraordinary appeal before the High Court of Cassation and Justice, the extraordinary appeal having been rendered void by the High Court. […]

Rainy Days for Airlines
In its judgment of the 13th of May 2020, the General Court dismissed the actions for annulment brought by three airlines against the Commission’s Decision of the 29th of July 2016 establishing that the implementing rules on State aid granted by the Autonomous Region of Sardinia to the airports on the island, given in order to increase the air traffic of the area, are incompatible with the internal market.
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The SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic Has Changed the Criminal Code
Under the special conditions we are experiencing - health crisis and state of emergency - the Government has recently decided to amend the Criminal Code by emergency ordinance, in order to criminalize previously qualified acts as contraventions.
Thus, the Emergency Ordinance no. 28 of 18 March 2020 for amending and completing Law no. 286/2009 on the Criminal Code was adopted by the Government in the meeting last week and was published on Friday, 20 March 2020, in the Official Journal no. 228/2020.
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Abusive clauses in banking contracts. Recent interpretations
On 19.03.2020, Attorney General Juliane Kokott presented his conclusions in the case C-81/19, Șerban vs. Banca Transilvania SA, which is in the role of the Court of Justice of the European Union, having as its object, once again, the protection of consumers against the abusive clauses inserted in the credit agreements in foreign currency.

By the decision of reference dated on 27.12.2018, the Cluj Court of Appeal, the Second Civil Section, ordered the referral of the Court of Justice of the European Union with the request for a preliminary ruling on the following questions regarding the interpretation of Directive 93/13 / CEE, respectively consumer protection against abusive clauses inserted in foreign currency credit agreements:
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