The legal protection of witnesses or how anonymous witnesses are utilized before the judicial organs in the criminal justice in Romania is not a new institution in this field. It has been regulated since 2002, when Law no. 682/2002 on witness protection was passed, law that came into force in January of 2003. In spite of its vast range of application at first glance, many of the areas of the judiciary fields of activity of the criminal justice remained unexplored. For this reason, in this paper I propose to analyze the legal priorities with regard to the prevention of threats to witnesses in criminal proceedings, as well as the manner of approach of this legal institution, seen from the point of view of reconfiguration of the Romanian judiciary in criminal matters. All this, of course, in light of the current legal context, preceding the new criminal legislation, which is to enter into force in February of 2014. From the procedural point of view, protective measures entail compliance with a procedure under the rigorous supervision of judicial bodies. Also, issues related to witness protection programs, arranged in a new, European context, are taken into consideration in this work.
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