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Enforceable title status of utility invoices issued under public service delegation contracts

Case Number ICCJ_200998
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Jurisdiction Romania (RO)
Decision Date
Outcome Inadmissible
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The High Court of Cassation and Justice dismissed the connected referral cases filed by the Bucharest Court of Appeal as inadmissible, resulting in the lower court retaining jurisdiction to resolve the underlying civil disputes without a binding preliminary ruling. The court refused to address the procedural legal question of whether a fiscal invoice issued by a public utility operator to a public authority under a service management delegation contract constitutes an enforceable title for the purpose of executing civil proceedings. The decision is grounded in the procedural framework of Articles 521(3) of the Civil Procedure Code and the substantive provisions of Article 42(61) of Law No. 51/2006 on Public Utility Services, establishing that the referred questions did not meet the admissibility criteria required for a preliminary ruling by the full panel for legal interpretation.

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art. 521 alin. (3) din Codul de procedură civilă; Enforceable title status of utility invoices issued under public service delegation contracts: The court refused to address the procedural legal question of whether a fiscal invoice issued by a public utility operator to a public authority under a service management delegation contract constitutes an enforceable title for the purpose of executing civil proceedings. The decision is grounded in the procedural framework of Articles 521(3) of the Civil Procedure Code and the substantive provisions of Article 42(61) of Law No. 51/2006 on Public Utility Services, establishing that the referred questions did not meet the admissibility criteria required for a preliminary ruling by the full panel for legal interpretation.

Keywords

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enforceable title service contract public utility civil status Civil Procedure Code fiscal law

Cited Legislation

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art. 521 alin. (3) din Codul de procedură civilă
Cited as the procedural basis establishing the binding nature of the court's decision.
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Decizia nr. 15/2023
Enforceability of public utility service invoices against contracting public authorities under delegation contracts
Decizia nr. 16/2020
Enforceability of utility invoices issued under collective contracts and exclusion of previous balances from ex lege enforcement titles
ICCJ_156009
Enforceability of water and sewage invoices issued to owners' associations and exclusion of previous balances from enforcement titles
Decizia nr. 2115/2018
Competence for compelling issuance of payment titles under Law No. 165/2013 rests with civil tribunals, not administrative courts
Decizia nr. 70/2020
Validity of attorney-attested private contracts as enforceable titles and the public nature of the pre-2018 national registry of deeds

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

Cited as the procedural basis establishing the binding nature of the court's decision.

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ROMÂNIA

ÎNALTA CURTE DE CASAŢIE ŞI JUSTIŢIE

Completul pentru dezlegarea unor chestiuni de drept

Minuta deciziei nr. 15 Dosar nr. 24/1/2023

Ședința din 13 martie 2023

ÎN NUMELE LEGII

DECIDE:

Respinge, ca inadmisibile, sesizările conexate formulate de Tribunalul Bucureşti - Secţia a VI-a civilă, în dosarele nr. 23648/299/2021 şi nr. 9626/299/2021, în vederea pronunţării unei hotărâri prealabile cu privire la următoarea chestiune de drept:

Art. 42 alin. (61) din Legea serviciilor comunitare de utilități publice nr. 51/2006, republicată, cu modificările şi completările ulterioare, poate fi interpretat în sensul că și factura fiscală emisă de către operator față de autoritatea publică, în baza unui contract de delegare a gestiunii unui serviciu de utilitate publică, are caracter de titlu executoriu?

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

Pronunţată în şedinţă publică astăzi, 13 martie 2023.