EVOLUTION OF THE EVIDENCE SYSTEM IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS ‒ FROM NATIONAL TO EUROPEAN LEVEL

Using scientific research methods, the study aims to determine the substance and scope of the autonomous notion of „evidence system”, as well as the form of adaptation of the criminal procedure according to this system. With novelty value in the specialized legal literature, the study captures the „hard core” of the criminal process represented by the evidence system. In carrying out the demonstration, the author presents an extensive analysis of the main evidentiary systems, from a historical and epistemological perspective, systems that have generated and oriented judicial procedures and even particularized legal systems, differentiating the Anglo-American procedural system from the European/continental procedural system. By analyzing the elements of the systemic construction, the author identifies the connecting points and common levers of the mixed national evidentiary systems, intuiting the ways in which they work together in a European legal framework that is in continuous construction and adaptation.