The classification of companies regarding the commercial activity

• Author: Roxana Denisa Vidican - Radu-Gheorghe Florian
• Position: Faculty of Juridical and Administration Sciences, Social Sciences Department Agora University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania - Faculty of Juridical and Administration Sciences, Social Sciences Department Agora University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania
• Pages: 61-68

AGORA International Journal of Juridical Sciences, http://univagora.ro/jour/index.php/aijjs

ISSN 1843-570X, E-ISSN 2067-7677

No. 2 (2016), pp. 61-68

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THE CLASSIFICATION OF COMPANIES REGARDING THE

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY

R.D. VIDICAN, R.G. FLORIAN

Roxana-Denisa Vidican

Faculty of Juridical and Administration Sciences, Social Sciences Department

Agora University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania

*Correspondence: Roxana-Denisa Vidican, Agora University of Oradea, 8 Piaţa Tineretului

St., Oradea, Romania

E-mails: vidican.roxana@yahoo.com, roxana.vidican@univagora.ro

Radu-Gheorghe Florian

Faculty of Juridical and Administration Sciences, Social Sciences Department

Agora University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania

*Correspondence: Radu-Gheorghe Florian, Agora University of Oradea, 8 Piaţa Tineretului

St., Oradea, Romania

E-mail: raduflorian@rdslink.ro

ABSTRACT

The article deals with legal forms of companies incorporated in Romania according

to different classification criteria with legal relevance, with a different value, and thus

differentiated consequences in terms of law.

KEY WORDS: COMPANIES, CLASSIFICATION, ASSOCIATES, SHAREHOLDERS,

CONSTITUTION.

INTRODUCTION

Judiciously, the literature has noted that at present, in terms of regulatory

classification societies are no longer paid on the basis of the distinction the company - civil

society, but the distinction between the company having legal personality (mainly regulated

by Law No. 31/1990) and unincorporated company mainly regulated by the Civil Code.

According to art. 2 of Law no. 31/1990, companies with legal personality shall be

lodged in one of the following forms: general partnership; limited partnership; corporation;

company limited by shares; limited liability company.

The legal text reproduced exhaustively lists the legal forms they may have companies

formed in Romania under Law no. 31/1990. Using the premise of these legal forms listing the

legal doctrine

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adopted several criteria for classification societies. Next we highlight those

with legal relevance.

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O. Căpăţînă, Societăţile comerciale, Editura Lumina Lex Publishing House, Bucharest, 1996, p. 62.