WORLD TRADE 
ORGANIZATION 
Council for Trade-Related Aspects 
of Intellectual Property Rights IP/N/1/ROM/1/ Add.1 
30 January 1998 
(98-0343) 
Original: EnglishlFrench 
NOTIFICATION OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS 
UNDER ARTICLE 63.2 OF THE AGREEMENT 
Romania 
Addendum 
By means of a communication from its Permanent Mission, dated 4 July 1997, Romania has 
made a supplementary notification concerning Annex 11 of document IP/N/l/ROM/l. This 
notification of "other laws and regulations" under Article 63.2 of the Agreement concerns the 
following: 
Code of Penal Law, as published in Monitorul Oficial Gazette, No. 65/16 April 1997 
The laws and decrees amending the Code of Penal Law (as mentioned in Annex 11 of 
document IP/N/l/ROM/1) have been incorporated in the Code on the occasion of its entire 
republication in Monitorul Oficial, No. 65/16 April 1997.1 
In addition to the brief description of Articles 299 to 301 of the Code, as reproduced in 
Annex 11 of document IPINll/ROMl1, Romania has notified French translations of Articles 
196 and 298 to 301, which are attached to the present document (Annex I). 
Code of Civil Procedure2 
Romania has notified French translations of Articles 2 to 4 and 121 of the Code, which are 
attached to the present document (Annex N). 
Law on the Organization of Courts, No. 92 of 4 August 1992, published in Monitorul 
Oficial, No. 197 of 13 August 1996 
A French translation of Article 93 as notified is attached to the present document (Annex V). 
1According to the procedures for the notification of laws and regulations under Article 63.2 (document IP/C/2), texts of 
"other laws and regulations" are, normally, not circulated in WTO documents. Copies of these laws and regulations are 
available in the WTO Secretariat for consultation by interested delegations. 
2By means of a communication, dated 27 January 1998, Romania has complemented the notification of this law by 
submitting a non-official consolidated version of the Code of Civil Procedure, published in 1997, incorporating amendments 
made until February 1997 to the original text which entered into force on 1 December 1865. IP/N/l/ROM/l/ Add. 1 
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Law on the Repression of Unfair Competition, No. 11 of 29 January 1991, published in 
Monitorul Oficial, No. 24 of 30 January 1991 
The law was amended by the Law on Competition, No. 21 of 10 April 1996, 
published in Monitorul Oficial, No. 88 of 30 April 1996. 
In addition to the brief description of the Law of 29 January 1991, as reproduced in Annex 11 
of document IP/N/l/ROM/l, Romania has notified English translations of that law as well as 
of Articles 1 and 73 of the Law of 10 Apri11996, which are attached to the present document 
(Annexes 11 and Ill). IP/N/l/ROM/l/ Add. 1 
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ANNEX I 
Code penal 
Divulgation du secret professionnel 
Article 196 ROUMANIE 
(traduction non-officielle) 
La divulgation, sans droit, de renseignements par la personne 
El laquelle on les a confies ou qui en a pris connaissance, en vertu 
de sa profession ou de sa fonction, si le fait est de nature El apporter 
des prejudices El une personne, est sanctionnee avec 
emprisonnement de trois mois El deux ans ou avec une amende. 
L'action penale est engagee sur plainte prealable de la partie 
lesee. 
La reconciliation des parties evince la responsabilite penale. 
Divulgation du secreteconomique 
Article 298 
La divulgation de renseignements ou d'informations qui ne sont 
pas destines El la publicite par la personne qui les detient en vertu 
de ses attributions de service, si le fait est de nature El produire des 
dommages-interets, est sanctionnee avec emprisonnement de deux 
El sept ans. 
Si le fait prevu El I'alinea precedent est accompli par une autre 
personne, quel qu'il soit la maniere par laquelle elle est arrivee El 
connaitre les re.nseignements ou les informations respectifs, la 
sanction est I'emprisonnement de six mois El cinq ans. IP/N/l/ROM/l/ Add. 1 
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Code penal 
Contrefagon de I'objet d'une invention 
Article 299 ROUMANIE 
(traduction non-officielle) 
La contrefagon ou I'usage, sans droit, de I'objet de I'invention 
est sanctionne d'un emprisonnement de six mois a deux ans ou 
d'une amende. 
Mise en circulation des produits contrefaits 
Article 300 
La mise en circulation des produits realises suite a la 
contrefagon ou a I'usage, sans droit, de I'objet d'une invention est 
sanctionnee d'un emprisonnement de trois mois a deux ans ou 
d'une amende. 
Concurrence deloyale 
Article 301 
La fabrication ou la mise en circulation des produits sur 
lesquels sont apposees des appelations d'origine ou des indications 
de provenance fausses, ainsi que I'apposition sur les produits mis 
en circulation des mentions fausses concern ant les brevets 
d'invention, ou I'usage de certains noms commerciaux ou des 
denominations des organisations commercialles ou industrielles 
dans le but d'induire les beneficiaires en erreur, sont sanctionnes 
d'un emprisonnement d'un mois a deux ans ou d'une amende. ANNEX II 
MONITORUL OFICIAL AL ROMANIEI, 
Partea I -a, Nr. 24 din 30 ianuarie 1991 IP/N/l/ROM/1/ Add. 1 
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(The Official Gazette of Romania, Part 1. No. 24 of January 30, 1991) 
(UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION)I 
PARLIAMENT OF ROMANIA 
THE DEPUTIES' ASSEMBLY THE SENATE 
LAW 
on the Repression of Unfair Competition 
The Parliament of Romania adopts this Law. 
Art.I. -Traders shall pursue their activity in good faith and in compliance with 
fair practices. 
Art.2. -Any act or fact contrary to fair practices in the industrial or 
commercial activities shall constitute unfair competition for the purposes of this 
Law. 
Art. 3 . -Infringement of the obligation stipulated in Art. 1 shall entail the civil, 
contravening or criminal liability under this Law. 
Art.4. -The following acts shall constitute contravention, unless they have 
been committed under such circumstances as to be considered offence according to 
criminal law: 
a) infringement by natural persons of the interdictions stipulated in Art. 36 of 
Law 15/1990 concerning reorganization of state-run enterprises as "regies 
autonomes" and trading companies; 
b) offering services to a competitor or accepting such an offer, by a trader's 
exclusive employees; 
c) divulgence of secret information on a trader's business to a competitor, by 
a trader's employees; 
d) conclusion of contracts whereby a trader undertakes to deliver goods or 
perform services advantageously, provided that the client supplies further buyers with 
whom the trader would conclude similar contracts; 
e) conclusion of contracts whereby the buyer would receive an award which 
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1) public communication or dissemination, by a trader, of allegations regarding 
his enterprise or its business, intended to mislead and put him in a favourable 
position to the detriment of his competitors; 
g) communication or dissemination, by a trader, of false allegations regarding 
a competitor or his goods which are liable to prejudice the normal course of the 
competitor' business. 
Confidential communications shall be deemed to constitute an act of unfair 
competition only when the communicator was aware of the untruthfulness of his 
allegations; 
h) offering, promising or giving, gifts or other advantages, directly or 
indirectly, to a trader's employees or representatives, so that by unfair conduct one 
may get information about the trader's industrial processes, may get know of, or use 
the trader's clients, or obtain any other advantages for oneself or for another person 
to the detriment of a competitor; 
i) attracting a trader's clients, availing oneself of the relationships established 
with such clients within the duties previously performed for the trader in question; 
j) dismissing a trader's employees in order to set up a competing company 
intended to attract the competitor's clients or hiring a trader's employees for the 
purpose of disorganizing that trader's business. 
Contravention stipulated under subsection a) shall be sanctioned by fines from 
Lei 5,000 to 20,000, those under subsections b) to e) by fines from Lei 10,000 to 
40,000, and those under subsection 1) to j) by fines from Lei 20,000 to 60,000. 
The sanctions may be applied to legal persons as well. 
Contravention shall be acknowledged, upon receipt of the injured party's 
notice, by employees specially authorized by the local chambers of commerce and 
industry or by the State Body for Trade Inspection. The agents acknowledging 
contravention shall impose fines at the same time when they acknowledge the 
contravention. 
Contravention stipulated in paragraph 1 shall be subject to the provisions of 
Law No. 32/1968 on setting down and sanctioning contravention. 
Art. 5. -The following shall constitute unfair competition offence and are 
punishable by imprisonment from one month to two years or by fines from Lei 
20,000 to 100,000: 
a) making use of a firm, emblem or special designations or packaging likely 
to cause confusion with those legitimately employed by another trader; 
b) manufacturing in any manner, importation, exportation, storage, selling or 
offering for sale goods bearing deceptive indications regarding patents of inventions, 
origin and characteristics of the goods, and regarding the producer's or the trader's 
names as well, for the purpose of misleading other traders and consumers. 
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manufactured in a certain place, in a certain territory or in a certain country shall be 
deemed deceptive indications of source. 
It shall not be deemed to constitute a deceptive indication of source on goods 
the denomination of a product that has become a generic name and only indicates its 
nature within the trading business, except where the denomination is accompanied by 
a mention which could induce people to believe it has that origin. 
Art. 6. -The trader who has committed an act of unfair competition shall be 
obliged to discontinue committing the wrong or to remove it and, as the case may be, 
to pay damages for the prejudice caused. 
Art. 7. -Legal actions arising in connection with unfair competition acts shall 
come under the competence of the local court of the area where the act has been 
committed or under whose jurisdiction the defendant's place of business comes; in 
the absence of a place of business the competence shall belong to the court under 
whose jurisdiction the defendant's domicile comes. 
Art. 8. -In the cases provided for in Art. 5 the penal action shall be 
commenced upon receipt of the injured party's complaint or upon notification by the 
local Chamber of Commerce and Industry or by another professional organization. 
Art. 9. -Should any of the facts provided for in Articles 4 or 5 cause 
patrimonial or moral damage, the injured party shall be entitled to request an 
appropriate civil action to be commenced with the competent court. 
If the facts stipulated by this law have been committed by an employee in the 
course of exercising his duties the trader shall be liable jointly and severally with the 
employee for the damage caused, except for the cases where he is able to prove that, 
in accordance with practices, he was not in a position to prevent the perpetration of 
the fact. 
The persons who caused the prejudice together shall be jointly and severally 
held responsible for the unfair competition acts or facts committed. 
In order to take measures that cannot be delayed, the provisions of Art.581 and 
582 in the code of civil procedure may be applied. 
Art. 10. -Through the decision on the merits of a case, the court may order the 
goods put under distraint to be sold after the deceptive indications have been 
destroyed. 
The amount resulted from the sale shall first cover the damages which have 
been fixed. 
Art.ll. -Concurrently with the pronouncement of the conviction or the 
obligation to discontinue committing the wrong or to carry out remedies for damage, 
the court may order the decision to be published in the media at the wrongful party's 
expense. 
Art. 12. -The right to start an action as provided for in Art.9 shall be lost by IP/N/l/ROM/l/ Add. 1 
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prescription within one year of the date on which the injured party learnt or should 
have learnt of the damage and the person who caused it, but no later than three years 
as of the date on which the fact was committed. 
Art. 13 . -The provisions of this Law shall be completed by the provisions of 
the code of civil procedure or, as the case may be, the code of criminal procedure. 
Art. 14. -The provisions of this Law shall also apply to foreign natural or 
legal persons who commit acts of unfair competition in the territory of Romania. 
Art. 15. -This Law shall come into force on the date of its publication in the 
Official Gazette of Romania. 
This law was adopted by the Senate in the session of January 23 rd, 1991. 
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE 
ALEXANDRU BIRLADEANU 
This law was adopted by the Deputies' Assembly in the session of 28 January, 1991. 
PRESIDENT OF THE DEPUTIES' ASSEMBLY 
MARTIAN DAN 
On the basis of Art. 82 m) of the Decree-Law No.92/1990 on the election of 
the Parliament and of the President of Romania, 
We promulgate the Law on the Repression of Unfair Competition and order 
its publication in the official gazette of Romania. 
PRESIDENT OF ROMANIA 
ION ILIESCU 
Bucharest, 29 January, 1991 
No 11 ANNEX III 
MONITORUL OFICIAL AL ROMANIEI 
Partea I-a Nr. 88 din 30 aprilie 1996 lP/N/l/ROM/1/ Add. 1 
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(The Official Gazette of Romania, Part I. No. 88 of 30 April, 1996) 
UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION 
PARLIAMENT OF ROMANIA 
THE DEPUTIES' ASSEMBLY 
LAW ON COMPETITION 
(EXCERPTS) 
The Parliament of Romania adopts this Law. 
CHAPTER I 
General Provisions THE SENATE 
Art. 1. -The purposes of this Law are the protection, maintenance and 
stimulation of competition and of a normal competitive environment, with a view to 
promoting the consumers' interests. 
Art. 73. -(1) This Law shall come into force nine months after its publication 
in the Official Gazette of Romania, except for the provisions regularizing the 
establishment and organization of the Council of Competition and of the Office of 
Competition, which shall come into force on the date of the publication of the Law 
in the Official Gazette of Romania. 
(2) On the date of the entry into force of this Law, Articles 36 to 38 of Law 
No. 15/1990 on the Reorganization of State-run Enterprises as "Regies Autonomes" 
and Trading Companies, Article 4, paragraph a) of Law No. 1111991 on the 
Repression of Unfair Competition and any other contrary provisions shall be 
abrogated. 
Bucharest, 10 April, 1996. 
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Code de procedure civile 
Titre I -Competence materielle 
Article 2 
Les tribunaux jugent: 
1. en premiere instance: ANNEX IV 
ROUMANIE 
(traduction non-officielle) 
a) les proces et les demandes en matiere commercialle a 
I'exception de ceux dont I'objet a une valeur jusqu'a 10 millions lei 
compris; 
b) les proces et les demandes concernant les droits et les 
obligations qui decoulent des rapports juridiques civils dont I'objet 
a une valeur de plus de 150 millions lei; 
c) les proces et les demandes en matiere de contentieux 
administratif a I'exception de ceux donnes a la competence des 
Cours d'Appel; 
d) les proces et les demandes en matiere de creation 
intellectuelle et de propriete industrielle; 
e) les proces et les demandes en matiere d' expropriation; 
f) les demandes concernant le consentement des adoptions; 
g) les demandes concernant I'interdiction, la declaration de la 
disparition et du deces; 
h) les demandes concernant la nullite du mariage, la nullite ou 
I'annulation de I'adoption et celles concernant la decheance des 
droits paternels; 
i) les demandes concernant la reparation des prejudices causes 
par des erreurs judiciaires commises dans les proces penaux; 
j) les demandes concernant la reconnaissance ainsi que celles 
concernant I'approbation de I'execution forcee des decisions 
donnees dans des pays etrangers; 
2. en tant qu'instances d'appel, les appels enonces contre les 
decisions prononcees par les tribunaux civils en premiere instance; 
3. en tant qU'instances de recours, les recours enonces contre 
les decisions prononcees par les tribunaux civils en derniere 
instance; 
4. dans toutes autres matieres donnees par la loi a leur 
competence. Article 3 
Les Cours d'Appel jugent: IP/N/lIROM/1/ Add. 1 
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1. En premiere instance, les proces et les demandes en matiere 
de contentieux administratif concernant les actes qui sont de la 
competence des auto rites de I'administration publique centrale, des 
prefectures, des services publiques decentralises a niveau 
departemental, des ministeres et des aut res organismes centrales, 
des auto rites publiques departementales et de Bucarest. 
2. en tant qu'instances d'appel, les appels enonces c~ntre les 
decisions prononcees par les tribunaux en premiere instance; 
3. en tant qu'instances de recours, les recours enonces contre 
les decisions prononcees par les tribunaux en appel, ainsi que dans 
d'autres proces prevus par la loi; 
4. dans d'autres matieres donnees par la loi a leur competence. 
Article 4 
La Cour Supreme de Justice juge: 
1. les recours enonces contre les decisions des cours d'appel 
et des autres decisions, dans les proces prevus par la loi; 
2. les recours dans I'interet de la loi; 
3. les recours en annulation; 
4. dans toutes aut res matieres donnees par la loi a sa 
competence. IP/N/l/ROM/l/ Add. 1 
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Code de procedure civile ROUMANIE 
(traduction non-officielle) 
Titre 11 -Dispositions generales de procedure 
Chapitre 11 -Les seances et leur deroulement 
Article 121 
Les seances sont publiques, si la loi ne dispose autrement. 
L'instance peut disposer que les debats se deroulent en seance 
secrete, si le debat publique pouvait endommager I'ordre, la morale 
publique ou les parties. Dans ce cas, les parties peuvent etre 
accompagnees, Et I'exception de leurs defenseurs, par deux 
personnes, au plus, designees par celles-ci. 
La decision se prononce toujours en seance publique. ANNEX V IP/N/l/ROM/1/ Add.l 
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ROUMANIE 
(traduction non-officielle) 
Loi no.92 du 4 aout 1992 sur I'organisation judiciaire 
Publiee dans le Journal officiel de Roumanie no.197 du 13 aout 1992 
Article 93 
Les magistrats rendent compte, par voie disciplinaire, pour le non­
respect des obligations de service ainsi que pour les comportements 
qui prejudicient I'interet de service ou le prestige de la justice.