High Court of Cassation and Justice
PRESS RELEASE
In its session of 29 May 2023, the High Court of Cassation and Justice- Panel for the Clarification of Certain Points of Law in Civil Matters, lawfully established in the case, considered a request for a preliminary ruling for the clarification of certain points of law, and returned the following Judgment:
Judgment 42 in Case 683/1/2023
The Panel sustains the request brought by the Court of Appeal of Suceava – Administrative and Tax Litigation Chamber in Case no. 4899/118/2021, for a preliminary ruling and, as a result, establishes that:
In interpreting Article 25, second sentence, of the Emergency Ordinance of Government Ordinance No 59/2000, the right to the grant of a non-taxable monthly allowance amounting to 30% of the average gross salary in the economy is sufficiently well determined in the absence of the drafting of a regulation or methodological rules relating to the conditions and criteria for the grant of service housing for forestry staff.
In interpreting and applying the second sentence of Article 25 of the Emergency Ordinance of Government Ordinance No 59/2000, the phrase “in the locality in which they carry out their work” refers to the locality in which the headquarters of the organisational structure of the employing institution nominated as the place of work is located.
Mandatory, as under Art. 521 para. (3) in the Civil Procedure Code.
Returned in public hearing, today, 29 May 2023.
After the justification is written and the Judgment signed it shall be published in the Official Journal of Romania, Part I.