01.16.2012

Romania’s health minister will set up a team tasked with drafting a new healthcare bill, with input from social partners, associations of patients and doctors, Prime Minister Emil Boc told a news more

01.16.2012

The tensions generated by the reform of the health system reached maximum highs, with people taking to the streets, but there is still a need to clarify the lack of transparency in the spending of more

01.13.2012

Romanian Health Minister Ladislau Ritli has pulled the healthcare bill out of public debate, on the request of Prime Minister Emil Boc, the Government announced Friday. more

01.11.2012

Romania’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday ruled illegal a recent law allowing local authorities to euthanize stray dogs after consulting citizens through local referendums. more

01.10.2012

Romanian President Traian Basescu has asked the Parliament to reject a bill amending the gas law, whereby domestic production of natural gas is used on the internal market exclusively, until import more

01.05.2012

Romanian President Traian Basescu on Thursday signed the decree passing an amendment to Law 297/2004 on the capital market, which raises the limit on ownership in the five regional investment funds more

01.05.2012

Romanian President Traian Basescu on Thursday passed the law on the car pollution tax, the Presidential Administration said in a press release. more

12.23.2011

The Romanian opposition Social Liberal Union (USL) of Friday challenged at the Constitutional Court the advertising bill, which was adopted by the Chamber of Deputies on December 20. more

12.23.2011

Doru Bostina, managing partner of Bostina&Asociatii law firm, says that the firm he runs could reach over EUR25 million revenue this year, 65% of which generated by the office in Bucharest and the more

12.20.2011

Romania’s President Traian Basescu on Tuesday passed the welfare law, the Presidency said in a press release. more

12.16.2011

OMV Petrom (SNP.RO), the largest company in Romania, could be significantly affected by the changes of the Gas Law approved by the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday. more

12.15.2011

The Romanian Chamber of Deputies on Thursday adopted a bill on the car pollution tax, which amends the first registration tax criticized by the Court of Justice of the European Union. more

12.05.2011

Romania's Chamber of Deputies has adopted a bill raising the minimum age requirement for possession of lethal weapons to 25, from the current 18. more

12.02.2011

Romanian President Traian Basescu passed the law postponing until 2016 payments of salary rights public sector employees have won in court, the Presidency said Friday. more

11.30.2011

Mugur Filipescu and Daniel Voicu, founders of law firm Voicu & Filipescu, recall the events that led to the firm's formation, but also the best and the worst in the past decade, and sketch their next more

11.29.2011

Romania’s Health Minister Ladislau Ritli said Tuesday the frame-law on healthcare, which is currently at the health ministry for debates, will be completed by December 15 or December 20. more

11.22.2011

Romania’s Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday adopted with 168 votes in favor, 111 votes against and 14 abstentions a bill on stray dogs. more

11.15.2011

Romanian President Traian Basescu on Tuesday passed the law prohibiting usury. more

10.31.2011

Lawyer Mihai Mares, who between 2008 and 2010 led the Romanian operations of Spanish law firm Garrigues, has partnered with Lucian Danilescu, former partner at Zamfirescu Racoti Predoiu (ZRP), to more

10.12.2011

Romania’s government will allow the companies drilling and prospecting underwater on the continental plateau to work without a construction authorization, in a decision that’s relevant for more

10.03.2011

If they all worked in the same place, the lawyer teams led by six Romanians who used to be with Linklaters in the early 2000s would form the largest law firm in Romania. more

09.29.2011

Romanian residents may not drive cars registered in other states for periods longer than 90 days, or for more than three months per year, says a draft act amending the law regarding traffic on public more

09.28.2011

Romanian public officials who own less than 5% of a company may no longer be forced to state the respective company’s in-progress contracts, according to an amendment to the integrity agency law, more

09.26.2011

Romanian companies looking to operate as private pension providers will need to have a minimum share capital of EUR5 million, half the amount proposed in December 2010, according to a new bill by the more

09.14.2011

The Romanian Chamber of Deputies’ public administration committee on Wednesday drew up a new report on a draft law regarding stray dogs, and decided local authorities may take any measure concerning more