The article analyzes the way in which the Romanian courts apply, in judicial practice, the revision procedure provided by art. 21 of the Administrative Litigation Law no. 554/2004. This special revision procedure can be used when a final judgment is given in breach of a provision of European Union law (‚EU law’) or a judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (‚CJEU’). The analysis is based on several relevant decisions of the High...

The dialogue between the national courts in Romania and the Court of Justice of the European Union has experienced an unimaginable development in the last five years, especially regarding the rule of law, the solutions of the CJUE being absolutely necessary to preserve the independence of judges and also inspiring judges from other Eastern European states. This article presents the three most recent requests for preliminary rulings from the Rom...

The article presents the evolution and meaning of the concept of “constitutional traditions common to the Member States” in EU law. The Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) used this concept for the fi rst time in Internationale Handelsgesellschaft, in December 1970, by taking over a concept coined in 1949 for the Council of Europe. The author argues that on the whole there is only a limited added value to the concept of common cons...

The relationship between the European Union law and arbitration is assessed from several perspectives: from the point of view of a researcher in European Union law and from the experience in the field of arbitration. This discussion is not only academic one, but has important consequences for the application of law, especially the application of European Union law by arbitral tribunals. It is also a paradox: on the one hand, in some...

L’accord sur le Brexit contient des dispositions similaires aux articles 101 et 102 TFUE. Dans le secteur pharmaceutique, alors que la pandémie de Covid-19 a mené à l’inapplicabilité temporaire et conditionnelle du droit de la concurrence par les autorités de concurrence, la Cour a clarifié les notions de «concurrence potentielle» ainsi que de «restriction par objet» dans le cadre d’accords de règlement amiable du type «pay-for-dela...

The article deals with some legal problems pertaining to the penetration of Union law into traditional fields of international law. The analysis is focused on the consequences of the decision of the Court of Justice of the European in case Glawischnig-Piesczek. Both the legal issues forming the background of this case and the academic debate following the judgment reflect the complexity of the definition and perception of the concep...

S’agissant de la réparation des dommages causés par une infraction au droit de la concurrence, la Cour a apporté d’importantes précisions concernant, d’une part, le droit à indemnisation des personnes n’opérant pas comme fournisseur ou comme acheteur sur le marché concerné par une entente et, d’autre part, la détermination des entités tenues de réparer le dommage. Le Tribunal s’est penché notamment sur les notions ...

In performing the constitutionality review, the Constitutional Court of Romania subordinates the use of a rule of law of the European Union, as a rule interposed to the reference, by the fact that the rule is sufficiently clear, precise and unambiguous or its meaning must have been established clearly, precisely and unambiguously by the Court of Justice of the European Union, on the one hand, and that rule must be constitutionally r...

La Cour de justice a répondu aux questions préjudicielles portant sur la question de l’utilisation «off label» de médicaments. Dans les affaires Gascogne, Kendrion et ASPLA, la Cour a annulé partiellement trois arrêts du Tribunal qui allouaient des dommages et intérêts aux sociétés concernées en raison d’une violation du délai raisonnable de jugement. Le Tribunal a étendu la présomption d’exercice effectif d’une inf...