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The Minister of Justice, Catalin Predoiu, met on Thursday with Andrew Noble, the ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Romania, with whom he discussed judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters.
According to a release from the Ministry of Justice sent to AGERPRES, the two officials stressed the need to continue joint actions to combat human trafficking, as well as to intensify the exchange of experience and cooperation with British specialists.
The topics on the agenda of the Ministry of Justice were also addressed, namely the abolition of the Justice Crimes Investigation Section, the amendment to the laws of justice, the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure.
"In the spirit of the constructive dialogue developed in recent years, the Romanian minister drew attention to the topic of requests for assistance targeting Romanian minors in the United Kingdom, whose number has increased significantly in recent years, and stressed the need to intensify the exchange of information in a timely manner, in specific cases," the release reads.
At the same time, according to the quoted source, in criminal matters, the discussion focused on the increasing number of European arrest warrants and transfer requests for convicted persons (Romanian citizens convicted in Great Britain), with the cooperation in the matter of the European arrest warrant experiencing a notable intensification since 2014.
The Romanian side mentioned the steps taken to facilitate this process and considered it essential to shorten the response times from the British side.
The meeting was attended also by the Ministry of Justice's Deputy Director of the International Law and Judicial Cooperation Department, Simona Franguloiu.
