The Applicable Surrender Procedure between Romania, Norway and Iceland

• Author: Ion Rusu
• Position: Senior Lecturer, PhD, Faculty of Law, 'Danubius' University of Galati
• Pages: 112-117

European Integration - Realities and Perspectives

2012

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The Applicable Surrender Procedure

between Romania, Norway and Iceland

Rusu Ion

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Abstract: The paper aims at examining procedures for persons’ surrender that have c ommitted crimes in one

of the territory of the three states in terms of internal and European legislation in this area, its importance

resulting in the need for strengthening specific activities of judicial cooperation in criminal matters. The

previous research conducted in this area has resulted in studies and articles p ublished in professional journals

or proceedings of international conferences. The work is useful to judicial bodies with powers of judicial

cooperation in criminal matters and to those interested in researching this form of judicial cooperation in

criminal matters between Romania and the two mentioned European countries, which are not EU members.

The results of the essential contribution of the work, its originality, ar e focused on the general examination, in

critical observations and proposals for supplementing and amending the European legislative ac t governing

the act of surrender.

Keywords: crime; judicial cooperation; surrender procedure

1. Introduction

Preventing and combating crime of all kinds, especially the cross-border one, was a constant concern

of all countries of the world since ancient times. As intensifying the cooperation in all fields between

the countries of the world, especially at economic level, appeared various possibilities of movement of

individuals on all continents.

Thus, the global crime has seen new forms of expression, some of extraordinary violence, the

perpetrators of these types of actions succeed in many cases to avoid criminal liability, disappearing

from the country where they committed the acts and hiding in the other states. (Rusu, 2010, p. 54)

Under these conditions, over time, the crime manifested in various violence f orms, with threats to

individual security of citizens or to the internal security of states. The creation of some real

opportunities for citizens traveling in Europe (starting from the second half of last century) has caused

new mutations in the structure of cross-border crime, mutations that are generally determined by the

possibility of moving criminal elements, of ensuring efficient organization and logistics. (Rusu, 2009,

pp. 18-19)

We may say that amid all these changes, especially in the recent decades, in Europe, as in the whole

world, crime has known an unprecedented evolution manifested in various forms, some of extreme

gravity, thereby threatening the safety of individual and collective safety, or even the existence of

some states. (Rusu, 2009, p. 186)

This imminent danger, stemming from the growing organized crime, as the possibility of avoiding the

prosecution or trial of perpetrators, hiding in other countries, has led governments to intensify the

activity of international judicial cooperation in criminal matters, being the only way to prevent and

combat the phenomenon as a whole.

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Senior Lecturer, PhD, Faculty of Law, “Danubius” University of Galati, 3 Galati Boulevard, 800654 Galati, Romania, Tel.:

+40.372.361.102, fax: +40.372.361.290, Corresponding author: ionrusu@univ-danubius.ro.