Preliminary salary-calculation referral inadmissible; lower court decision stands.

The High Court of Cassation and Justice dismissed as inadmissible the referral from the Bucharest Court of Appeal seeking a preliminary ruling on whether the base salary under Annex VI of Framework Law No. 153/2017 should be calculated as the product of the minimum gross wage set by government decision and the hierarchy coefficient, leaving the lower court's decision in the underlying employment dispute unaffected. The referral was made in a case concerning the calculation of a military service member's base salary, where the lower court sought clarification on the proper application of the statutory salary framework. The High Court held the referral inadmissible, relying on Article 521(3) of the Civil Procedure Code, which governs obligatory preliminary rulings, without reaching the merits of the legal question posed. As a result, the prior court decision remains in force, and the interpretative question was not resolved on its substance.