Article 10. Observance of Human Rights, Freedoms, and Dignity

(6) When a juvenile is a victim or a witness, actions shall be undertaken to respect his/her interests at any stage of the criminal proceedings.

Article 58. Victim

(2) A victim has the right to have his/her complaint immediately registered in the duly prescribed manner to be settled by a criminal investigative body and to be thereafter notified about the results of such a settlement.

Article 58. Victim

(0) A victim shall be examined under the conditions set hereunder for examining witnesses. Any juvenile victim under the age of 14 shall be examined in line with art.
110^1 in criminal cases related to crimes of a sexual character, trafficking children or domestic violence, as well as in other cases where the interests of justice or juvenile require so.

Article 215^1. Protection Measures Applied to Victims of Domestic Violence
(1) Should it be stated during the criminal proceedings that a victim of domestic violence is in danger to be subjected to violence or other illegal actions, including by destroying his/her goods, the criminal investigative body or the prosecutor shall interfere without delay in order to ensure that the protection measures are obtained.

(2) The motion to obtain protection measures may be filed by the criminal investigative body or by the prosecutor and based on the request of the injured party.

(3) The court shall issue within 24 hours from the receipt of the request a protection order by which it may provide protection to the victim and his/her children by applying to the suspect/accused/defendant one or several of the following measures:
a) obligation to temporarily leave the shared house or to stay away from the victim’s house, irrespective of the goods property right;
b) obligation to stay away from the victim’s location, at a distance that would ensure victim’s security, by excluding any visual contact with him/her and his/her children, with other persons depending on him/her;
c) prohibition of any contact, including telephonic one, by correspondence or in any other manner, with the victim or his/her children, with other persons dependent on him/her
d) prohibition to come close to certain place: workplace of the victim, place of study of the children, other placed attended by the person under protection;
e) limitation of unilateral disposal of the community property;
f) obligation to have a medical examination of the mental condition and dependence on drugs/alcohol and, if the medical conclusion confirming the dependence on drugs/alcohol is issued, to undergo a forced medical treatment of alcoholism/drug addiction;
g) obligation to complete a special treatment or counselling program, if such an action is determined by the court as being necessary to reduce or eliminate violence;
h) prohibition to keep and bear firearms.

(4) The protection measures shall be applied for up to 3 months. The duration of protection measures may be extended by the court upon a repeated request following the commission of domestic violence acts or as a result of failure to observe the conditions set in the protection order.

(5) The protection order shall be immediately sent to the internal affairs authority and to the social assistance authority from the location of the suspect/accused/defendant and the victim.

(6) The ruling of the judge to apply or extend the protection order shall be subject to execution immediately and subject to appeal in a hierarchically higher court.