Specific Issues Applying the Law 165/2013

During the last years, in Romania there were complex situations involving restoration of property rights by the authorized bodies. A big step was made in 2013, when the applicable law was changed by Law no.165/2013. Between 2013 and 2017 the legislative framework was changed twelve times, according with different emergency ordinances, government decisions and laws, in order to complete the restitution process – in kind or by compensation –of the real estate's abusively taken during the communist regime. In this paper we want to highlight the incident methodology and some specific issues encountered during the restitution process in a specific case study.