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Kanunları ve Tercümeleri
ARTICLE 16
Domestic competence
The competence of Romanian authorities for uttering a request in the fields regulated by this
Law or for executing such a request is established by the provisions of the following Titles of this
law, as well as by other relevant normative acts.
ARTICLE 17
Languages used
(1) Requests under Titles II and IV to VII addressed to Romania and the documents attached
to them shall be accompanied by a translation into Romanian, English or French. Where the do-
cuments above are translated into a language other than Romanian, the central authority that is
competent under Article 13 or the competent judicial authority, in the event of direct transmissi-
on, shall have it urgently translated.
(2) The requests in para. (1) uttered by Romanian authorities and the documents attached to
them shall be accompanied by translations into one of the languages mentioned in the judicial
instrument applicable in relation with the Requested State. Requests uttered on grounds of inter-
national courtesy and documents attached thereto shall be translated into the official language
of the Requested State. The translation of requests and documents attached shall be provided by
the authority that is competent to utter the request. (3) Replies to requests addressed to Romania
shall be drawn up in Romanian, and the translation of replies into the official language of the
Requesting State or into English or French is optional, unless the international judicial instrument
applicable ordains otherwise.
(3) Where the reply to a request uttered by Romanian authorities is not in Romanian or is not
accompanied by a translation into Romanian, the central authority competent under Article 13 or
the competent judicial authority, in the event of direct transmission, shall take measures to have
it translated
ARTICLE 18
Deduction of the arrest
(1) The length of arrest served abroad for the accomplishment of a request uttered by Roma-
nian authorities based on this Law shall be taken into account within the Romanian criminal pro-
cedure and shall be deducted from the length of the penalty imposed by the Romanian courts.
(2) The requested Romanian authorities are obliged to provide to the competent authorities
of the Requesting State the information needed for deducting the arrest served in Romania, ba-
sed on a request sent to Romanian judicial authorities.
ARTICLE 19
Repealed.