CROATIA CRIMINAL CODE

GENERAL PART

CHAPTER TWO (ii) – APPLICABILITY OF THE CRIMINAL LEGISLATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

Article 14

(4) The criminal legislation of the Republic of Croatia shall be applied to an alien who, outside the territory of the Republic of Croatia, commits against a foreign state or another alien a criminal offense for which, under the law in force in the place of crime, a punishment of five years of imprisonment or a more severe penalty may be applied or who commits a criminal offense from Chapter (xiii) of this Code.

CROATIA CRIMINAL CODE

GENERAL PART

CHAPTER TWO (ii) – APPLICABILITY OF THE CRIMINAL LEGISLATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

(3) In the case referred to in Article 14, paragraph 4 of this Code, when the committed act is not punishable under the law in force in the country in which it was committed but is deemed to be a criminal offense according to the general principles of law of the international community, the State Attorney of the Republic of Croatia may authorize the institution of criminal proceedings in the Republic of Croatia and the application of the criminal legislation of the Republic of Croatia.

CROATIA CRIMINAL CODE

SPECIAL PART

CHAPTER THIRTEEN (xiii) - CRIMINAL OFFENSES AGAINST VALUES PROTECTED BY INTERNATIONAL LAW

Article 156

Whoever, with intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, orders the killing of members of such a group, or orders serious bodily injury to be inflicted on them, or orders the physical or mental health of the members of such a group to be impaired, or orders the forcible displacement of the population, or conditions of life to be inflicted on the group which are calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part, or orders measures to be imposed which are intended to prevent births within the group, or orders the forcible transfer of children of the group to another group, or whoever with the same intent commits any of the foregoing acts, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than ten years or by long-term imprisonment.

I. GENERAL PROVISIONS

AREA OF APPLICATION
Article 1

This Law shall regulate the implementation of the Statute of the International Criminal Court which the Republic of Croatia has ratified by adopting the Law on the Ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Court (Official Gazette - International Treaties, No. 5/2001), the cooperation of the Republic of Croatia with the International Criminal Court, and the specific prosecutions of criminal offences prescribed by the Article 5 of the Statute, criminal offences against the values protected by the international law referred to in Articles 156 - 168, 187, 187a and 187b of the Penal Code (Official Gazette, No. 110/97, 27/98, 129/00, 51/01 and 111/03), and other crimes under the jurisdiction of the international criminal courts, as well as the prosecution of criminal offences against the international justice.

LAW on the Implementation of the Statute of the International Criminal Court and the Prosecution of Crimes against International Law of War and Humanitarian Law

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1

(1) This Law shall regulate the implementation of the Statute of the International Criminal Court (hereinafter: the Statute), which the Republic of Croatia has ratified by adopting the Law on the Ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Court (Official Gazette — International Treaties, No. 5/2001), the co-operation of the Republic of Croatia with the International Criminal Court, and the specific prosecution of crimes against international law of war and humanitarian law and other crimes within the jurisdiction of international criminal courts (hereinafter: Crimes), as well as the prosecution of crimes against international justice (Article ... of the Criminal Law).

(2) This Law shall also be referred to as the Law on Crimes Against International Law.