Juridical System of the Honorific Consular Offices

The consular activity as an important component of the states activity develops according to the stipulations of the Vienna Convention regarding the consular relations in 1963, of the European Convention regarding the consular functions adopted in 1967 by the European Council, of the bilateral conventions contracted in the consular field and of the inside legislation of the states by means of certain specialized institutions, namely the career or honorific consular offices and the consular sections in frame of the diplomatic missions. Even if there are essential differences regarding the exertion of the consular functions and the granting of the consular immunities and privileges between the career consulates and the honorific ones, the state practice relieved that both of them have important contributions to the development of the economical, commercial and cultural-scientific relations between the states. Besides, the reason of settling the career or honorific consular offices has been determined by the necessity to organize and develop economical and especially commercial relations between the states and to provide protection to the natural persons and the juridical entities of a state that were placed and developed activity on the territory of another state. The current study wants to accomplish an analysis of the juridical system applicable to the honorific consular offices in a treatment comparative to the status of the career consular offices and by reporting both to the international, national legislation and to other states incident in the field.