The Court of Appeal rejected as unfounded the action of the employees of the National Energy Regulatory Authority regarding the suspension of the reorganization, with them having five days to appeal, stated the president of ANRE, George Niculescu.
“The Court of Appeal has ruled and rejected as unfounded the action of my colleagues, the employees of ANRE. (…) The decision of the Court of Appeal to reject the employees’ request regarding the suspension of the reorganization somehow gives us the certainty that this reorganization made based on Law 145 (on streamlining the activity of some autonomous administrative authorities – editor’s note) with the aim of streamlining the institution’s activity was done in the spirit and letter of the law,” said Niculescu, according to Agerpres.
He emphasized that the employees can appeal within five days, having every right to use all means of appeal.
“There are five days, the deadline within which they can appeal. Everyone, obviously, has every right to use all legal means of appeal. In that situation, we will use, as an institution, all means of defense,” stated the ANRE president.
He reiterated that all documents regarding the reorganization were issued before the deadline provided by law, namely January 1, 2026.
“We issued the documents regarding the reduction in the number of positions, regarding the 30% salary cut before the expiration of this deadline. We did not exceed any legal basis established by the Romanian Government. (…) The employees requested the suspension of the reorganization precisely so that they would not be subject to salary cuts and layoffs,” Niculescu pointed out.
According to the solution posted on portal.just.ro, the court admitted the exception of the lack of passive procedural capacity of the president of the National Energy Regulatory Authority and dismissed the action as being formulated in adversarial proceedings with a person without procedural capacity.
“Admits the exception of the lack of passive procedural capacity of the president of the National Energy Regulatory Authority. Rejects the action formulated in adversarial proceedings with this defendant as being formulated in adversarial proceedings with a person without passive procedural capacity. Rejects the exceptions of lack of interest and inadmissibility, as unfounded. Rejects the action, as unfounded. With appeal within 5 days from communication. The appeal will be filed with the Bucharest Court of Appeal – Section IX for administrative and fiscal litigation”, is the solution, in short, of the Court of Appeal.