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What you should know when you own a Romanian Multi Level Marketing business in Romania?

Although we would say that selling through multilevel marketing networks is a relatively new business on the Romanian market, find out that this form of commerce is defined by Law no. 650/2002 for the approval of the Romanian Government Ordinance no. 99/2000 on the marketing of marketed products and services as a form of direct sales through which products and services are offered to consumers through a network of direct sellers. Therefore, owning a Multi Level Marketing network in Romania is under the aegis of Romanian legal provisions in Network Marketing industry. A lawyer specialized in commercial law, direct sales networks, multilevel marketing network and GDPR procedures in Romania can advise you in carrying out activities under a Romanian Multi Level Marketing business. Thus, Pavel, Mărgărit and Associates Romanian Law Firm recommend addressing to a lawyer specialized in network marketing and Multi Level Marketing Network in Romania, who could provide legal information on this type of business, could help with drafting the Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy, and any type of agreements or legal documents required for a multilevel marketing business in Romania.

According to article no. 42 of Law no. 650/2002 for the approval of the Romanian Government Ordinance no. 99/2000 on the marketing of products and services in the Romanian market:

,, (1) Direct selling is that commercial practice by which the products or services are sold by the trader directly to consumers, outside the retail premises, through direct sellers, who present the products and services offered for sale in Romania.

(2) Network marketing (multilevel marketing) in Romania is a form of direct sales whereby products and services are offered to consumers through a network of direct sellers who receive a commission for both their own sales and sales generated by direct seller networks. which they have personally recruited.”

Therefore, Multi Level Marketing (MLM) in Romania is a commercial practice that is grafted on a structure consisting of networkers arranged on several levels, in order to sell goods and services from producer to consumer, using direct contact. The commissions related to the provision of multilevel marketing (MLM) services in Romania within the networks are distributed at each level of the network structure in Romania.

Each Multi Level Marketing Network (MLM) in Romania has a marketing plan, and there are a number of legal documents underlying the structure of the direct sales network in Romania that are confirmed by its members, such as Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy, Cookies Policy, Codes of Conduct, Internal Regulations, etc. A lawyer specialized in commercial law, direct sales networks, multi level marketing (MLM ) and GDPR procedures in Romania will be able to draft these types of documents, ensuring the full legal support to implement a business in the field of direct sales networks (MLM ) in Romania.

The underlying documents of the Multi Level Marketing (MLM) network in Romania

The Terms and Conditions represent an agreement of the members of the Multi Level Marketing (MLM) networks in Romania, reflecting the way in which the sales network operates in Romania. It is essential to be written in a clear and intelligible way, so that they can be accessed and understood by anyone who wants to work in a Multi Level Marketing (MLM) network in Romania. The Terms and Conditions may contain clauses regarding the rights and obligations of the networkers, their conduct, their liability in situations of defamation and not only, the termination of the collaboration, etc. The Romanian Law Firm Pavel Mărgărit and Associates recommends using a lawyer specialized in commercial law, direct sales networks, Multi Level Marketing (MLM) and GDPR procedures in Romania to provide all these aspects, inserting any provisions for the proper functioning of the MLM network in Romania.

The Privacy Policy aims to establish the types of personal data that are collected and processed by the Multi Level Marketing (MLM) network in Romania and provides the way in which they can be updated, processed or deleted. These issues are extremely important to point out, as the protection of personal data has increased in recent years, with the Romanian National Authority for the Supervision of Personal Data Processing in Romania imposing fines on companies that do not comply with GDPR legislation in Romania. Aspects such as the way personal data is processed in Romania, who monitors how this data is processed are extremely important, it is essential that every Multi Level Marketing Network in Romania has a well-defined internal procedure and respect the rights of users with regard to the processing of personal data in Romania. All these aspects can be considered by a lawyer specialized in GDPR, multilevel marketing procedures and network, network marketing, direct marketing in Romania.

The Romanian Law Firm Pavel, Mărgărit and Associates recommends addressing to a lawyer specialized in commercial law, direct sales networks and GDPR and MLM procedures who will be able to guide you in order to implement a strong legislative structure that will underpin the Multi Network Level Marketing (MLM) in Romania.

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