Transfer of venue request in civil proceedings: procedural incompatibility and non-modifiability of initial jurisdictional applications

The Supreme Court of Romania (High Court of Cassation and Justice), Civil Section, definitively dismissed the appellant's request for the transfer (strămutare) of the case, thereby retaining the Court of Appeal of Pitești as the competent forum for the underlying civil proceedings. The dispute concerned a procedural challenge to the court's jurisdiction, specifically an application to remove the cause from the originally designated court. The Court rejected the motion on the legal ground that a transfer of venue constitutes a procedural incident incompatible with the rules governing first-instance judgments, holding that the initial transfer request could not be modified pursuant to the applicable procedural norms.