Official judicial documents or those issued by authorities under the Ministry of Justice (for example, the National Trade Register Office) can be used before foreign authorities in states that are not parties to the Hague Convention abolishing the requirement of legalization for foreign public documents, adopted at The Hague on 5 October 1961, or with which Romania has not concluded a judicial assistance treaty containing provisions on the abolition of legalization and any equivalent formalities.

Legalization is done by the Ministry and, subsequently, by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, followed by legalization carried out either by the foreign diplomatic mission or foreign consular office in Romania.