With the clear purpose of increasing the predictability of awards rendered in private international law litigations, of facilitating the free movement of awards and of discouraging the forum shopping phenomenon in the process of determining jurisdiction, the European legislator has adopted several uniform instruments, which are applicable to Member States. One of these instruments is Regulation (EC) No 864/2007 of the European Parliament and ...

The present study aims to provide some clarification on the processing of personal data by police officers in the context of witnessing violations of traffic on public roads. Specifically, it is necessary to delimit between the applicability of the General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter GDPR), on the one hand, and Directive 2016/680 on the other hand, regarding the protection of individuals with regard to processing of personal data ...

The theses of the alleged „civilizational inferiority” of the Romanians and of the „cultural mission” of Hungary to the East and South builds one of the most widespread arguments directed by the Hungarian revisionist propaganda against the international recognition of the Union between Transylvania and the Old Kingdom of Romania. According to this view, Transylvania should be envisaged as being part of the culturally and politically developed ...

Although several months have passed since the entry into force of the new rules for amending the Civil Procedure Code, introduced by Law no. 310/2018, we intend to make a presentation of some of the significant changes, and in this article we have dealt with the subject matter of appeals, with regard to which we can speak almost of a reformation (especially concerning the second appeal, due to the removal of the filter procedure from the High...

Data protection in Romania can be made in accordance with the status of the controller, meaning either public authority/body or private entity. Operators that are public authorities or bodies have specific rights and obligation, which sometimes are different from those of private entities. The national data protection authority shall have precise tasks with regard to public entities. All these provisions are laid down in national legis...

Public judicial assistance in civil matters is a support mechanism granted by the state to natural persons who are or will be party to litigation in Romanian courts or other Romanian authorities with jurisdictional powers as a means to enable all litigants to have effective access to justice. The legislature intended to regulate the institution of public judicial assistance in civil matters as a genuine form of state assistance to ensur...

This paper aims to analyze the institution of renouncing prosecution, on the one hand in terms of the requirements of the right to a fair trial to which the suspect or defendant should be entitled, and on the other hand from the perspective of the legal consequences produced by the deficiency of the legislative construction represented by the provisions of art. 318 of the Criminal Procedure Code. In concreto, we will consider the possib...

The paper aims to present the main features of compulsory insurance, in the context of new legislative regulations. Law no. 132/2017 on compulsory insurance against civil liability in respect of damage to third parties by means of vehicle and tramway accidents (published in OJ No. 431/2017) establishes the persons required to conclude MTPL contracts and the exceptions to this obligation, the territorial application limits, the liabi...