Under the legal instruments of the Council of Europe, requests should be sent, during the investigation and prosecution stage, to the Prosecution Office of the High Court of Cassation and Justice, and during the trial stage, to the Ministry of Justice. Under the EU legal framework, direct communication is foreseen. In case of urgency, request may be made via EJN contact points or Eurojust.
The competent authorities to execute / recognise the measures are:
for MLA: Prosecution Offices or courts
for EIO: When Romania is the executing state, the recognition and execution of a European Investigation Order is within the competence of the Prosecutor's Office or the competent court and according tot he quality of the person, according to the Romanian law. Territorial jurisdiction is determined by the location of the investigative measure.
European investigation orders dealing with deeds which, under the law, are within the competence of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism and the National Anticorruption Directorate are recognized and executed by them.