05.04.2022

The war in Ukraine and the pandemic. Again, about the force majeure clause

Irrespective if we talk about the Covid pandemic or, more recently, the war in Ukraine, life shows us how unpredictable it actually is. Many contracts did not provide for a force majeure clause, and when the parties needed to resort to it, they found that in some cases it was deficient as defined in the contract.

In a video interview given to Hotnews.ro, Valentina Preda, Partner - STOICA & ASOCIAȚII, clarified the conditions under which the force majeure clause can be invoked, showed the difference from cases of contingency, and pointed out problems that appeared in the development of certain types of civil contracts, from different categories of industries (Horeca, transport, tourism, etc.), from the perspective of recent jurisprudence in this field.