The administrator of the company, empowered by the management contract, represents the main way of exercising executive power in companies.
The company, as a complex structured legal entity, exercises its power through the General Meeting of Shareholders, which, following the vote, gives instructions to the administrators whose mandates allow the fulfillment of these.
Similar to the mandate in the name of a natural person, we are of the opinion that the administrator of the company, empowered by a special form of mandate, is obliged to properly and correctly fulfill all the legal provisions imposed by the AGA.
Relevant legal basis and normative acts
The management contract, as well as the powers and responsibilities brought by this act, are regulated by Law 31/1990, and the Civil Code, which are complemented by special laws, including the Tax File Law, as well as other normative acts.
General and special management mandate
The Civil Code allows economic operators flexibility in determining the ways in which mandates are exercised, as well as the form they take.
Thus, entrepreneurs have the power to
Liability of administrators
Administrators are liable in civil, administrative and criminal terms for failure to perform, or defective performance of, their assumed duties, whereby a party (the company, the company's creditors, the partners, etc.) has been prejudiced.
Thus, they become (rationally) responsible for the decisions made, in the administration of the company, and are personally liable for their conduct.
The привлечение ответственности администраторов зависит от ситуации в части, но мы считаем, что они несут ответственность, в соответствии с общими правилами и статьями гражданского и уголовного кодексов, за любые действия, причиняющие ущерб или нарушающие уголовное право.
Stakeholders of companies, through associates, creditors of companies (in case of insolvency), ANAF (in the case of non-fulfillment of fiscal obligations), etc. have the right to turn against them.
However, I believe that the liability of the administrators is limited to the performance of clearly defective acts, with bad faith, or of offenses and administrative offenses, due to the uncertain nature of commercial activities.
Market economy is one that naturally flattens out viable businesses, but also one that can harshly punish economically inefficient businesses, even in the presence of good faith, with compliance of all existing norms. Thus, it is irrational to punish a typical, and normal, situation in the economy, by attracting the liability of the administrator, if the activity performed, was unaffordable.
I believe that the administrator, as a service provider, by mandate, is responsible to the parties exclusively within the limits of the service provision contract (administration contract), extended by the normative acts that impose additional obligations on them, as long as they act legally and in good faith.