Change of venue request: judicial competence of a suspended civil case and preservation of procedural acts

The High Court of Cassation and Justice (Civil Section I) granted the petitioner’s request for a change of venue, ordering the transfer of the underlying civil case from the Craiova Court to the Târgu Mureș Court while preserving all procedural acts already performed; this decision is final and not subject to appeal. The dispute involved a formal application for *strămutare* (change of venue) filed by a joint-stock company against a limited liability company and an individual, triggered by the fact that the original case had its next hearing scheduled for June 1, 2012, but had already been suspended by a presidential resolution on March 23, 2012. The court’s operative decision rested on the procedural doctrine governing statutory grounds for changing the competent court, specifically addressing the validity of the petition given the existing suspension of proceedings, and concluded that the transfer was legally appropriate without identifying specific substantive legal norms beyond the procedural requirements for venue transfer and the proper timbre of the filing.