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Starting with 2016, the Constitutional Court of Romania issued a series of decisions whereby it repeatedly established that the interference of intelligence services in a criminal prosecution is not allowed, so that the evidence obtained with the help of these structures cannot be used in criminal proceedings, being affected by absolute nullity. This article summarizes the most relevant decisions of the constitutional court in this matter, as well as the recent practice of the High Court of Cassation and Justice, which we hope will signal other courts to ensure unitary jurisprudence at the national level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on concepts coming from the field of Security Studies and Risk Management, this paper offers an analytical toolkit and an institutional perspective. We have tried to translate the risk theories into the particularities of the security systems and especially into the particularities of the intelligence services. Where we had to, we referred to the Romania's situation (the normative and doctrinal framework). Starting both from conceptual (theoretical) and actionable (practical) patterns from other intelligence agencies (similar to SRI), we have defined the conceptual framework around the notion of "risk", as it is approached by the Romanian intelligence community. On the actional side, we have presented the specific case of the National Intelligence Community and of the SRI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]