PLEA BARGAINING – A NEW CRIMINAL PROCEDURE INSTITUTION

This work deals with the plea bargaining (plea agreement) as an institution which isintended to be entered by means of the new Romanian Code of Criminal Procedure, adoptedby Law no. 135/2010, in the light of the conditions, of the conclusion procedure, of itscontents and consequences. Similar negotiated justice proceedings are found both in theadversarial and in the inquisitive systems (USA, England, as well as in Germany, France,Belgium, Greece, Republic of Moldova, Czech Republic, Croatia