Consecinţele pandemiei generate de coronavirusul SARS-CoV-2 în raporturile contractuale

Prof. univ. dr. Gabriela RĂDUCAN

Lector univ. dr. Carolina Maria NIŢĂ

ABSTRACT

Among the most debated legal issues at both national and international level, in the current period, we find the effects on contractual relations, generated by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and by the measures ordered by the public authorities to limit the effects of the virus on human health, measures which had to leave the economy in the background. In matters of performing contractual relations, in progress at the time of the emergence of the pandemic, there were created multiple problems and controversies relating to the possibility of invoking, as the case may be, the force majeure, the fortuitous case or the unforeseen event.

This study addresses these issues both from the perspective of domestic law and at European or international level, considering that such events may occur in international contracts as well, not only in...