The Undercover Investigator in the Vision of the New Romanian Criminal Procedure Code

Abstract

A new Criminal Procedure Code has entered into force on 1st February, 2014 according to Law no. 255/2013 for the implementation of the Law no. 135/2010 on the Criminal Procedure Code.Under the provisions of Article 3 of the Implementing Act, the new law shall apply from its entry into force to all cases pending before the courts, with certain exceptions set out in its content. Thus, the provisions of Articles 224-2244 from the Criminal Procedure Code of 1968 shall be repealed and the new criminal procedural provisions will apply from this time forth.The New Criminal Procedure Code regulates issues concerning the undercover investigator in Title IV – Evidences, means of evidence and evidentiary procedures, within the Chapter IV relating to special surveillance or research methods, consecrating to this institution three articles (Articles 148-150 of the New Criminal Procedure Code).