CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING EXEMPTIONS FROM THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 9 OF THE CRIMINAL CODE, IN THE LIGHT OF THE LEGISLATION AT THE EUROPEAN LEVEL.

Romanian legislation must be harmonized with that at the European level. A continuous concern of the legislator is needed in this sense. The fulfilment of this objective also includes the recent changes in the field of criminal legislation, taking into account either the Criminal Code or "the criminal provisions contained in organic laws, emergency ordinances or other normative acts that had the force of law at the time of their adoption ", as stated in the Art. 173 of the Criminal Code. These changes also brought with them some exceptions to the principle of personality regarding the application of the Romanian criminal law in space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]