Legislative stage · Official / primary · Core: antitrust / funding
Romanian Senate rejects L339/2026 competition-damages reform bill and sends it to the Chamber of Deputies
On 8 September 2026 the Romanian Senate rejected legislative proposal L339/2026, which would have amended Government Emergency Ordinance 170/2020 on competition damages actions and the Competition Law, and transmitted the initiative to the other chamber.
- Jurisdiction
- Romania (RO)
- Event date
- (decision date · day precision)
- Procedural posture
- Rejected at this stage (last checked 27 September 2026)
- Source role
- Official / primary
- Case record
- Romania: Senate dossier L339/2026 (competition damages reform proposal)
- First published
- · version 1 · updated
What happened
The Romanian Senate's legislative docket for L339/2026 records that the proposal was registered in the Senate on 14 April 2026 as b214. The proposal would amend and supplement Government Emergency Ordinance no. 170/2020 on damages actions for breaches of competition law and amend the Competition Law no. 21/1996; it was initiated by 15 USR deputies. The docket records that the Senate's legal committee filed report no. 208-NEGATIV, the budget and finance committee filed report no. 399-NEGATIV and the economic committee filed report no. 451-NEGATIV, all on 8 September 2026. The same day the Senate plenary rejected the proposal by 90 votes for, 16 against and 0 abstentions, and an address transmitted the initiative to the other chamber for debate.
Why it matters
For practitioners and claimants following Romanian competition-damages reform, the Senate had been the first chamber seized of the proposal. Its rejection means the substantive choices in the bill were not adopted at that stage, and the dossier now sits with the other chamber, whose disposition the docket does not record.
What remains unresolved
The Senate docket does not record the outcome in the other chamber, so it is not established whether the proposal lapsed or may still be debated and adopted there. The docket also records that the Legislative Council issued a negative opinion (no. 461/14.05.2026) and the Economic and Social Council a negative opinion (no. 3013/08.05.2026), while the Competition Council submitted opinion no. 6386/13.05.2026; the docket text in the packet does not set out the content of any of those opinions.
Sources
- Senatul României
Romania · Official / primary · LegislativeDocket · ro · checked 27 September 2026Cited at: Procedural entry 14-04-2026: "Înregistrat la Senat pentru dezbatere cu nr.b214"; Title of L339/2026 in the Senate docket: "Propunere legislativă pentru modificarea și completarea OUG nr.170/2020 privind acțiunile în despăgubire..."; Field "Inițiatori" for L339/2026, listing Blaga Daniel-Codruţ, Botez Mihai-Cătălin and 13 further USR deputies; Procedural entry 08-09-2026: "Comisia juridică... depune raportul cu nr. 208-NEGATIV"; Procedural entry 08-09-2026: "Comisia pentru buget, finanţe... depune raportul cu nr. 399-NEGATIV"; Procedural entry 08-09-2026: "Comisia economică... depune raportul cu nr. 451-NEGATIV"; Procedural entry 08-09-2026: "respins de Senat rezultat vot pentru= 90 contra=16 abțineri=0"; Procedural entry 08-09-2026: "adresa prin care iniţiativa legislativă este transmisă la cealaltă Cameră spre dezbatere"; Advisory Council entries for 08-05-2026, 13-05-2026 and 14-05-2026, and field "Avizul Consiliului Legislativ: 461/14.05.2026"
Translation note: Machine-assisted translation from Romanian; operative terms quoted in the original where material (e.g. "respins de Senat", "raportul cu nr. 208-NEGATIV").
Editorial score 0.620 — how it was computed
| Dimension | 0–5 | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| significance | 3 | Senate first-chamber rejection of a bill amending Romania's competition-damages framework (OUG 170/2020) and the Competition Law; stage outcome not final. |
| novelty | 3 | Existing case record already noted the 8 September 2026 Senate rejection and onward transmission; this item first publishes the docket detail. |
| practical | 3 | Practitioners tracking Romanian damages reform learn the first-chamber outcome, the negative committee reports and that the dossier is with the other chamber. |
| coverage_gap | 3 | Source R15 is marked reference_only with no successful scan; no published story exists for this dossier, so the item fills a monitored-source gap. |
| timeliness | 4 | Event dated 8 September 2026, within the current news cycle as of 27 September 2026. |
score = Σ weight × dimension/5; weights 35/25/20/10/10. See methodology. Not a fundability or investment score.
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