Article 131
(1) Pardons shall be used to release a specifically named person from criminal prosecution, release him from punishment in whole or part, replace the penalty imposed by a lighter penalty or suspended sentence, grant rehabilitation, reduce the term of a specific legal consequence of conviction, or to abolish individual or all of the legal consequences of conviction.
(2) Pardons may be used to abolish or reduce the term of security measures of disqualification from performing a profession, activity or duty, prohibition against operating a motor vehicle, and expulsion of a foreign national from the country.
Article 132
Granting of amnesty or pardon shall not encroach on the rights of third persons based on a conviction.
1. Having regard to paragraph 10 of the Preamble and article 1, the Court shall determine that a case is inadmissible where:
(b) The case has been investigated by a State which has jurisdiction over it and the State has decided not to prosecute the person concerned, unless the decision resulted from the unwillingness or inability of the State genuinely to prosecute;