Clarification of preliminary ruling inadmissible; prior binding decision stands.

The High Court of Cassation and Justice dismissed as inadmissible a request for clarification of the operative part of its prior Decision No. 31 of 17 May 2021, which remains in force; the applicant sought clarification of a preliminary ruling on a question of law, but the court held that the clarification procedure could not be used to reinterpret or alter the earlier decision. The dispute concerned a procedural request under Romanian civil procedure rules to explain the scope of a prior binding ruling, and the decisive legal basis was that such requests are inadmissible when they seek a substantive review or reinterpretation of the decision rather than genuine ambiguity in its operative part.