General Part

Section 4.

Exemption from criminal liability and punishment.

Chapter 13.

Amnesty, pardon, criminal record.

Article 82. Amnesty.

The person who committed a crime can be exempted from criminal liability by an act of amnesty adopted by the legislature, and the convict can be completely or partially exempted from the basic, as well as, from the supplementary punishment, and the convict’s unserved part of the punishment can be replaced with a softer punishment, or the criminal record can be expunged.

Article 17
Issues of admissibility
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;