The response of the new romanian criminal code to crisis, europeanization and globalization in the matter of territorial enforcement of the criminal law

摘要

The article aims to analyze some changes introduced by the new Romanian Criminal Code in the matter of territorial enforcement of the criminal law. The legislator has taken in account the challenges of the current social and political conditions of Romania. From this perspective, we may see in this new code, the matter of territoriality is supplemented with some additional provisions for defining the notions of crime and territory, the principles of personality and reality have undergone some adjustments in order to be more effective and the principle of universality has been reformulated for the purposes of being applied in only those cases in which, Romania has assumed some obligations to international level. Some new elements like "surrender the persons'" to another EU Member State or to an international criminal court have been also introduced as legal instruments in the matter of international cooperation. These changes appear to be justified in the light of the obligations Romania has assumed.