Official document: material/immaterial object or product of offenses of forged public acts. PART I.

Abstract

In this scientific approaches is defined the “document”, in general, and the „official document”, in particular, as an entity that appears in the position of material/immaterial object or product of the offenses of forged public acts. It is shown that the notion „document” has the following features (characteristics and to official document): a) implies the presence of a support; b) consists of information; c) possesses attributes based on which it is identified. Correspondingly, the official document (species of the document) consists of: a) information (with the particularity that it is of an official nature) and b) informational support (materialized or electronic). The criminal law of the Republic of Moldova does not include a definition of the notion „official document”. Nor in other national normative acts the notion in question is not explained. The meaning of the notion „official document” transpire from the text of some legal provisions with a non-legal-criminal character. Also, the content of this term is reproduced in the text of some international legal instruments, among which: the Convention of the Council of Europe on access to official documents, signed in Tromsø on 18.06.2009, in force for the Republic of Moldova from December 2020.