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Salary repayment exemption under Law No. 124/2014 applies retroactively to sums received before its entry into force; preliminary ruling granted.

Case Number ICCJ_130744
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Jurisdiction Romania (RO)
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Outcome Allowed / Granted
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The High Court of Cassation and Justice admitted the referral from the Craiova Court of Appeal and issued a preliminary ruling, holding that staff paid under the normative acts listed in Article 1 of Law No. 124/2014 are exempted from the obligation to repay salary-related income received without legal basis up to the law's entry into force on 27 September 2014. The dispute concerned the interpretation of Articles 1(a), 2(1), and 3 of that law, specifically whether the exemption from restitution applied to sums unduly received before the law took effect. The Court decisively interpreted these provisions as granting the exemption for all such sums received prior to that date, and the ruling is binding pursuant to Article 521(3) of the Civil Procedure Code.

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art. 3 din Legea nr. 124/2014, art. 1 lit. a), art. 2 alin. (1) şi art. 3 din Legea nr. 124/2014, art. 521 alin. (3) din Codul de procedură civilă; Salary repayment exemption under Law No. 124/2014 applies retroactively to sums received before its entry into force; preliminary ruling granted: 124/2014 are exempted from the obligation to repay salary-related income received without legal basis up to the law's entry into force on 27 September 2014. The dispute concerned the interpretation of Articles 1(a), 2(1), and 3 of that law, specifically whether the exemption from restitution applied to sums unduly received before the law took effect. The Court decisively interpreted these provisions as granting the exemption for all such sums received prior to that date, and the ruling is binding pursuant to Article 521(3) of the Civil Procedure Code.

Keywords

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law of obligations effects of a preliminary ruling civil dispute repayment of loan remuneration of work preliminary ruling procedure

Cited Legislation

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art. 3 din Legea nr. 124/2014
(1) şi art. 3 din Legea nr.
art. 1 lit. a), art. 2 alin. (1) şi art. 3 din Legea nr. 124/2014
Main ground for the decision: the court interpreted these provisions to establish the conditions for exemption from the obligation to repay salary income received without legal basis.
art. 521 alin. (3) din Codul de procedură civilă
Procedural provision cited in the dispositive to establish the binding effect of the preliminary ruling.
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Decizia nr. 33/2016
Temporal scope of salary restitution amnesty for public sector employees under Law No. 124/2014
Decizia nr. 37/2017
Fiscal amnesty under Law 124/2014 held inapplicable to non-budgetary employee's undue salary benefits
ICCJ_134004
Scope of salary clawback ban: Exclusion of unwarranted payments by non-salaried public sector personnel under Law No. 124/2014
ICCJ_86926
Pre-2010 contractual salary rights exempt from Framework Law 284/2010 in binding preliminary ruling for employees
Decizia nr. 4/2018
Taxability of court-awarded default interest on delayed salary payments as income or civil damages

Key legal questions extracted by Legislator

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art. 1 lit. a), art. 2 alin. (1) şi art. 3 din Legea nr. 124/2014

Main ground for the decision: the court interpreted these provisions to establish the conditions for exemption from the obligation to repay salary income received without legal basis.

art. 521 alin. (3) din Codul de procedură civilă

Procedural provision cited in the dispositive to establish the binding effect of the preliminary ruling.

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ROMÂNIA

ÎNALTA CURTE DE CASAŢIE ŞI JUSTIŢIE

Completul pentru dezlegarea unor chestiuni de drept

Minuta deciziei nr. 33 Dosar nr. 2432/1/2016

Şedinţa din 24 octombrie 2016

ÎN NUMELE LEGII

DECIDE:

Admite sesizarea formulată de Curtea de Apel Craiova – Secţia I civilă, în dosarul nr. 1619/104/2015, privind pronunţarea unei hotărâri prealabile şi, în consecinţă, stabileşte că:

În interpretarea dispoziţiilor art. 1 lit. a), art. 2 alin. (1) şi art. 3 din Legea nr. 124/2014 privind unele măsuri referitoare la veniturile de natură salarială ale personalului plătit din fonduri publice, cu modificările ulterioare, este exonerat de la obligaţia restituirii pentru sumele reprezentând venituri de natură salarială încasate necuvenit până la data intrării în vigoare a legii, respectiv 27 septembrie 2014, personalul salarizat sub imperiul actelor normative enumerate în art. 1 din lege.

Obligatorie, potrivit dispoziţiilor art. 521 alin. (3) din Codul de procedură civilă.

Pronunţată în şedinţa publică din data de 24 octombrie 2016.