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The Vice-President of the Romanian Competition Council steps down

The Vice President and Board Member for the Romanian Competition Council Valentin Mircea has stepped down from the position as of October 2013. Mircea served as VP for four-and-a-half years and said he left his post October 8 of this year. Following his departure, Mircea said he would “revert to the academia” at the Center for Studies in Competition Law at the Bucharest University.

Jinga, Maravela & Asociatii obtains the annulment of financial corrections inflicted to a regional contracting authority

Jinga, Maravela & Asociatii law firm announces its successful representation of a regional contracting authority in a litigation against the Romania’s Ministry of Environment, through a company release sent to Govnet. The contracting authority whose name cannot be disclosed at this point is a state-owned company running a EUR120 million European funding project.

Privatization of CFR Marfa – another Oltchim case?

The privatization of CFR Marfa saga is almost over. Since the afferent Emergency Ordinance stipulates October 14 as the deadline for carrying out the privatization and the draft of the Ministry of Transport for delaying it was not even discussed during the last Governmental meeting, the very next period is decisive for its completion or its failure.

POS CCE funds, available again to Romania's private sector

EU Commission has decided to eventually resume payments towards Romania through POS CCE (Operational Program 'Increase of Economic Competitiveness') subsequent to measures taken by Romanian Government in that regard in order to comply with the Commission's recommendation. One of them was evaluating in August about 4000 financing requests that have been submitted starting 2011 reads a press release of the Ministry of European Funds.

Bulboaca si Asociatii will represent MSI in the privatization of Romtelecom

Romania's Ministry of Communications and Information Society (MSI) chose Bulboaca si Asociatii law firm to provide legal support in the privatization of Romtelecom. The ministry decided in favor of the law firm upon analyzing all five offers submitted, the main decision factor being the pricing of Bulboaca si Asociatii services, which is more convenient compared to those of the other four candidates, shows a press release.

ArcelorMittal Tubular Products Roman wins a litigation with SIF Moldova for a EUR66 million capital increase.

Upon the ArcelorMittal's decision on adding EUR66million to its capital during the Shareholders General Assembly on January 26, 2012, SIF Moldova, one of the minor shareholders started a legal action in order to possibly annul it. SIF considered the capital increase proposal lacking transparency and inopportune as per a release published at that moment, the previous increases performed being also disputed by the society.

GFR recovers the guarantee paid for CFR Marfa