User:Florin Razvan Radu

Mr. Florin Răzvan RADU is born on the 27th of November 1975, in Bucharest, Romania. He graduated the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest (1998) and became a member of the Bucharest Bar in 1999. In 2001, Mr. RADU obtained a diploma of the Institut de Droit des Affaires et de la Cooperation Internationale « Nicolae Titulescu – Henri Capitant », a partnership between the University of Bucharest and the University Paris 1 Sorbonne, and starting with October 2006 he is a Ph. D. Candidate of the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Law, with the thesis “International Cooperation in criminal matters”.

Since the 24th of July 2000, he is working with the Romanian Ministry of Justice, as legal adviser assimilated with the magistrates. He was the head of the Units for treaties and, respectively, international legal assistance in criminal matters of the Directorate for International Affairs (April 2002-July 2003) and, from 25th July 2003 to 16th of January 2009,  director of the Directorate for International Law and Treaties (this directorate is composed of the Division for international judicial cooperation in criminal matters, the Division for international judicial cooperation in civil and commercial maters, the Unit for international affairs and treaties and the Unit of the Liaison magistrates sent abroad). Starting with January 16, 2009, he is Seconded National Expert at the Secretariat to the European Judicial Network, in The Hague.

From 2001, he is a member of the Council of Europe committee of experts on the operation of the European Convention in criminal matters (PC-OC). In June 2007 he was elected by the members of the European Committee for Crime Problems (CDPC), for 2007-2011, as member of the Bureau of CDPC. He was the Romanian coordinator contact point for the European Judicial Network since 2002.

He was the head of the Romanian delegation for the negotiation of several bilateral treaties in the field of judicial cooperation (e.g.: 2005-2007 – Extradition Treaty between Romania and the United States of America and Protocol amending the MLA in criminal matters Treaty between Romania and the USA; 2005 – Co-operation Agreement between Romania and Eurojust; 2004 - Convention on extradition, Convention on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters between Romania and Algeria, 2004 – Convention on MLA in civil and commercial matters with Turkey; 2002-2003 – Agreement on the  transfer of sentenced persons between Romania and Italy). He is the drafter or co-drafter of several pieces of Romanian legislation on judicial cooperation, including: the Emergency Ordinance no. 123/2007, approved by Law no. 85/2008, on the strengthening the judicial cooperation with the Member States of the European Union; Law no. 302/2004 on international judicial cooperation in criminal matters and of the Law no. 224/2006 and Law no. and Law no. 222/2008 amending and supplementing the Law no. 302/2004 on international judicial cooperation in criminal matters;  Law no. 58/2006 on the ratification of the Agreement on cooperation between Romania and Eurojust, signed in Brussels on  the 2nd of December 2005 and regulating certain measures for the representation of Romania to Eurojust towards and after accession to the European Union. He was the Project leader of the PHARE Twinning Project RO/2005/IB/JH/03 Strengthening the institutional and legislative framework in the field of international judicial cooperation (October 2006 – May 2008). He attended as lecturer several international conferences, meetings and seminars and published the book “Cooperare judiciara internationala si europeana in materie penala. Indrumar pentru practicieni” (“International and European Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters. A guide for practitioners”), Wolters Kluver Editions, Bucharest, 2009, as well as several articles in the Romanian Law Magazine “Dreptul”.