Admissibility of referral for resolution of legal questions (chestiuni de drept)

The Supreme Court of Romania rejected as inadmissible a consolidated reference to a preliminary ruling on questions of law, submitted by the Court of Appeal of Bacau (Civil Section I) concerning civil case no. 4714/110/2013 and connected cases no. 1335/103/2014 and 1537/103/2014. The dispute involved a procedural request for the High Court to resolve specific legal questions arising from these civil proceedings, effectively leaving the lower court's handling of the underlying matters unaffected by this procedural dismissal. The decisive legal basis for the decision was Article 521(3) of the Code of Civil Procedure, which governs the conditions for admissibility of referrals for preliminary rulings on questions of law, resulting in a mandatory rejection due to the failure to meet statutory admissibility requirements.