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Conference Proceedings - Galaţi, 24 th -25 th of April 2009<br />

Year I, Vol. I - 2009<br />

Silvia CRISTEA<br />

Camelia STOICA<br />

SPECIFIC FEATURES OF THE BANKING COMPANIES<br />

Abstract<br />

The aim (purpose, goal) of the study is the legal (juridical) regime of banking<br />

commercial companies (societies) as credit institutions, according to the Government<br />

Emergency Ordinance 99/2006 (Section 1). The specific characteristics of banking<br />

companies are analyzed beginning with their legal qualification (<strong>de</strong>finition) as commercial<br />

companies (Section 2), continuing with their special (specific) issues. Section 3 is<br />

discussing the legal regime of bank directors and the conclusions are referring to the legal<br />

rules of banking companies administration activities.<br />

1. Introductive notions<br />

Taking into consi<strong>de</strong>ration the fact that the Romanian Tra<strong>de</strong> Co<strong>de</strong><br />

presents to art. 3, point 11 as tra<strong>de</strong> activities the banking operations, along<br />

with those of exchange, we consi<strong>de</strong>r applicable the <strong>de</strong>finition formulated<br />

by doctrine (Demetrescu, 1939) through which by bank it is un<strong>de</strong>rstood<br />

“an organism of interposition in the operations of banking credit, taking<br />

credit money from those who search a placement for their capitals and<br />

giving credit money to those who need capitals, accomplishing this way a<br />

benefit (Gheorghe, 2006)”.<br />

Strictly from the legal point of view, as tra<strong>de</strong> company, the bank<br />

represent that group of persons, constituted based on a company<br />

agreement and having legal personality, to exercise several tra<strong>de</strong> acts, with<br />

the purpose of fulfilling and sharing benefits.<br />

From the perspective of the chosen (Capatana, 1996) form of the<br />

company, so that the bank can be constituted as Tra<strong>de</strong> Company, it can not<br />

have other form that of Share Company, which has as main object of<br />

activity the collection of funds and the granting of credits, and also the<br />

performance of banking (Gheorghe, 2006) services.<br />

Un<strong>de</strong>r the terms of OUG no. 99/2006 concerning the banking 1<br />

activity, the tra<strong>de</strong> banks are authorized credit institutions, along with the<br />

cooperative credit organizations, the institutions issuers of electronic<br />

1 This abrogates Law no. 58/1998, concerning the banking activity, published in the<br />

Official Monitor no. 1027 from 27.12.2006, approved and modified by Law no. 227<br />

/ 2007, published in Official Monitor no. 480 from July 18th 2007.<br />

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