Acta Universitatis Danubius. Juridica, Vol 5, No 1 (2009)

Abstract

Consular law contains rules that protect the economic, cultural, scientific, legal interests of the transmitter state and of the residence citizens. Consular legal norms are customary rules, most of them are encoded. Codification of consular law is important for studying and appliance of legal rules that govern the consular relations. The general rules accepted in international practice in the field of consular relations have been coded by the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. These norms provide a framework for concluding bilateral consular conventions between countries. The evolution of international relations, in general, and particularly consular ones, the emergence of new domains which it can occur consular protection, it is necessary to review the existing regulations on consular relations, taking into account the realities of our time.