Admissibility of preliminary reference on civil procedure under Art. 521(3) CPC

The High Court of Cassation and Justice rejected the preliminary reference submitted by the Covasna County Court as inadmissible, upholding the procedural determination that the referral did not meet statutory requirements, with the decision being mandatory under Article 521(3) of the Civil Procedure Code. The dispute involved a civil matter from a case initiated in 2013, where the lower court sought the Supreme Court's ruling on a question of law to resolve a legal uncertainty or inconsistency, but the petition failed to satisfy the admissibility criteria for preliminary references. The decisive legal basis was the application of Article 521(3) of the Romanian Civil Procedure Code, which governs the mandatory nature of the High Court's decisions on preliminary references and the strict procedural requirements for their admissibility.