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(CN) A magistrate for the European Union’s high court said Thursday that the Romanian Constitutional Court was justified in finding the composition of certain panels on the country’s Supreme Court was unlawful, but it shouldn’t have required specialized panels to hear corruption cases.
European Court of Justice Advocate General Michael Bobek held in three nonbinding opinions that two decisions concerning judicial independence were compatible with EU law but one was not.
From 2016 to 2019, the Constitutional Court issued a series of rulings involving the independence of the judiciary. Two found that Romanian’s Supreme Court wasn’t properly staffed and didn’t use legally mandated experts in some corruption cases, and another mandated that only specialized police officers could use technical surveillance measures.
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Romania-based Black Sea Oil and Gas will begin extracting natural gas from its 600 million US dollars offshore Romanian project in November, its chief executive Mark Beacom said on Tuesday, but added further progress hinged on scrapping a disputed tax. The additional tax on offshore projects is the last remnant of a series of price caps, taxes and export restrictions introduced two years ago by a previous centre-left government. The changes, most of which have since been reversed, blindsided gas producers, which have spent over a decade and billions of dollars preparing to tap Romania’s Black Sea gas.
Deutsche Telekom's Slovak Telekom business cannot avoid sanctions imposed by Slovak antitrust authorities even though it has already been penalised by EU competition enforcers, the EU's top court ruled on Thursday.