The paper discusses a new tool to be used in public procurement by contracting authorities, namely Life Cycle Costing, in light of the efforts made at the EU level to promote green and sustainable public procurement. The authors analyse the provisions concerning Life Cycle Costing comprised in...

The article discusses the concept of procedural administrative transparency and aims to investigate the extent to which the legal provisions of Law no. 52/2003 on transparency in decision-making are actually implemented by the local administrations from the rural communities in the Transylvania...

The Romanian administrative law currently lacks the sophistication from other legal systems and the legal theory often lags behind the socio-economic developments in society. There is a limited discussion in our public law doctrine about public rights and about specific types of public rights,...

This chapter investigates the implementation status of the Aarhus Convention in Romania by a) examining if the provisions of the national legislation are in line with the requirements of the Convention; and b) empirically analyzing how implementation is either hindered or helped by the existing...

The paper sketches the institutional and legal framework for public procurements in Romania and its influence on how environmental and social considerations may be taken into account. This situation is discussed in light of the Commission’s initiatives that foster sustainable public...

Before resorting to a court for the annulment/modification of an administrative decision, an interested party has the possibility of challenging the decision before the administration itself. The (internal) administrative appeal is addressed to the issuing public authority (or to the higher...

This paper addresses the issue of inner city redevelopment and focuses on possible policy tools that may be used to cope with declining urban areas (for e.g., the public-private partnership).This paper has a twofold structure. Within the first part it will review some of the existing literature...

Our study approaches the concept of sustainable development from a business perspective by looking into how universities can contribute to incorporating sustainability in the formation of future business professionals. The main objective of our paper is to develop an analysis that offers a...