The Supreme Court set aside the decision of the first-instance court, which had found that there were no specific procedural law rules applicable to exequatur applications, and had therefore applied by analogy the rules governing requests for the issuance of writs of summons. The Supreme Court found this holding “incomprehensible”, since exequatur applications were governed by the New York Convention and by specific provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure and the Law on International Commercial Arbitration of Moldova.