Despite the current slowing down of international trade we as a law firm in Romania dealing with international trade have seen a rise in interest by foreign SME’s in entering into agency and distributorship agreements with Romanian companies. Whilst the foreign SME’s might seek to invoke the laws of their own country many Romanian companies
Christmas comes but once a year as does the New Year. These are important times for Romania and Romanians as well as for the Ministry of Finance. Each year the Ministry passes an Ordinance whereby they change certain taxes and procedures in Romanian law and which will come into force on 1st January of the
One of the quirks of Romanian legislation incorporated in the Constitution is the use of Emergency Ordinances. The intention originally was for them to be used when Parliament was not sitting and allowed the Government to pass „emergency” legislation which would then be ratified by Parliament later when they were in sitting. Over the last 20