Acta Universitatis Danubius. Juridica, Vol 6, No 2 (2010)

Abstract

According to the special Romanian law, one of the forms of  judicial assistance in criminal matters recognized in the relations between the EU member states is, among others, the one referring to the cooperation in applying the principle of mutual recognition of financial penalties. The European
normative act that establishes the general cooperation norms in this matter is the Council’s Decision Frame 2005/214/JAI on February 24, 2005 on the application of the principle of mutual recognition of financial penalties. This European normative act has been transposed in the internal legislation through Law no.302/2004, according to the international judicial  cooperation in criminal matters, with the subsequent  amendments and completions, the latter being represented by Law no.222/2008. The amendments and completions instituted by the abovementioned normative act establish the procedure of transmitting the decision, the procedures for recognition and execution of such a decision by the
competent Romanian judicial authorities, the grounds of non recognition and non execution, the definition of used terms, as well as other aspects referring to the recognition and execution of such decisions. Commenting refers to a number of provisions in the law under both European and domestic in the special law, comments aimed in particular the replacement of terms of recognition or nonperformance reasons, the procedure of identification of persons convicted when they are evade the enforcement of financial obligations and failure to transpose into national law of subsequent changes to  European law.