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FINDING COMPETENT COURTS

The search tool below will help you to identify court(s)/authority(ies) competent for a specific European legal instrument. Please note that although every effort has been made to ascertain the accuracy of the results, there may be some exceptional cases concerning the determination of competence that are not necessarily covered.

Article 2 – Requested courts

The Romanian court competent to receive requests is the district court under whose jurisdiction the evidence requested by EU Member States is to be taken.

Click on the below link to view all competent authorities related to this Article.
List of competent authorities

Article 3 – Central body

Central body

The central Romanian authority is the Ministry of Justice.

Ministry of Justice

Directorate for International Law and Judicial Cooperation (Direcţia Drept Internaţional şi Cooperare Judiciară)

Service for international judicial cooperation in civil matters (Serviciul Cooperare judiciară internaţională în materie civilă)

Str. Apollodor 17, Sector 5, Bucharest 050741

Tel.: +40372041077 Secretariat

Tel.: +40372041083, +40372041218 (Service for international judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters) (Serviciul Cooperare judiciară internaţională în materie civilă şi comercială)

Fax: +40372041079; +40372041084

E-mail: dreptinternational@just.ro; ddit@just.ro

Article 5 – Languages accepted for completion of the forms

Transmission of requests and other communications: Romanian

Article 6 – Means accepted for transmission of requests and other communications

Documents can be received by post or by fax.

Article 17 – Central body or competent authority(ies) responsible for decisions on requests for direct taking of evidence

Ministry of Justice

Directorate for International Law and Judicial Cooperation

Service for international judicial cooperation in civil matters

Str. Apollodor 17, Sector 5, Bucharest 050741

Tel.: +40372041077 Secretariat

Tel.: +40372041083, +40372041218 (Service for international judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters)

Fax: +40372041079

E-mail: dreptinternational@just.ro; ddit@just.ro

Article 21 – Agreements or arrangements to which Member States are parties and which comply with the conditions in Article 21(2)

Not applicable

Last update: 17/06/2020

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