EXTENDED CONFISCATION – SAFETY MEASURE REGULATED IN THE NEW CRIMINAL CODE

Abstract

Extended confiscation is a safety measure introduced in Romanian criminal law in 2012. Romania's Constitutional Court has ruled several decisions in which a question has been raised of whether the legal provisions on extended confiscation are constitutional or not. In the present paper we analyze the extended confiscation in relation to the decisions of the Constitutional Court.

Keywords

• safety measure
• criminal sanction
• constitutionality
• retroactivity
• no retroactivity.