TRENDS REGARDING FINES AND SANCTIONS IN COMPETITION LAW, LABOR LAW AND DATA PROTECTION LAW
TRENDS REGARDING FINES AND SANCTIONS IN COMPETITION LAW, LABOR LAW AND DATA PROTECTION LAW

Summary/Abstract: The reason on writing this paper is based on the fact that nowadays civil and administrative sanctions and fines have become huge from a financial standing point, making a significant issue on the matters of the constitutionality – the right to property. ECHR and the European Court of Justice also have talking points on this. The Romanian Courts and mostly judges form second tier courts such as Tribunals or Courts of Appeal have become more aware of the fines they are presented with to be cancelled or at least diminished and regard some of them to be exaggerated. The research has been done on the basis on European and national Romanian law and, also on the basis of cases presented in front of the courts and their outcome. The fines in competition law can be negotiated but are a percentage of your annual income, the ones regarding labor law for working without a contract are 10.000 lei per person (about 2100 euros) and the ones in data protection law are also based on a fix sum and a percentage. Thus the results with which we came up are amazing, regarding that some cases have been won, but most of the fines and sanctions remained in place, some companies even agreeing to pay in advance or asking for a payment plan without going to trial. In other cases we noticed that Romanian national law is more rigorous and at some times even more severe than that of other EU member states. In conclusion, there should be a more strict revision on fines and sanctions throughout the whole European legal system and to ensure a more transparent and equitable framework in which companies and even natural persons can be aware of the fines and sanctions and if they are not contrary to Constitutional and European Law.

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