Engaging Personal Liability for the Debtor’s Insolvency

In the rush for budgetary resources, tax representatives try, increasingly aggressively, to engage the personal liability of former associates or administrators for the company’s debts. At Costaș, Negru & Asociații we routinely and successfully manage such cases. We have chosen to present here a case recently completed at the Bucharest Court of Appeal. Insolvency is […]

Cat on the Hot Roof: High Court of Cassation and Justice Confirms Building Tax is Not Due for an Unfinished Building

The taxation of an unfinished building raises, in practice, problems of interpretation, especially due to the pressures of the Court of Accounts or the overzealousness of tax officials. Hence a question that we also asked ourselves, at Costaș, Negru & Asociații: when exactly is building tax due for an unfinished construction? The case managed by […]

Individual Employment Contract or Retirement Decision on Grounds of Age?

In the field of Labour Law, the Costaș, Negru & Asociații team encounters various problems in practice. One of these problems is the fate of the individual employment contract, in the context of a retirement decision for the age limit for the employee. By way of example, we encounter such a situation when, during the […]

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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