Infracțiunea de trafic internațional de droguri și corelarea (sau, mai degrabă, necorelarea) cu infracțiunea de contrabandă calificată

This article seeks to analyze the offense of international drug trafficking, as provided by Article 3 of Law no. 143/2000, regarding its constitutive elements and the discrepancies that exist in the legal doctrine concerning some of them. In the second part of the article, the crime of international drug trafficking will be analyzed in relation to the offense of aggravated smuggling, provided by the Article 271 of the Customs Code, highlighting the lack of alignment between the two articles and some of the issues arose in the judicial practice when applying these legal norms.