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.

Article 5
Crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court
1. The jurisdiction of the Court shall be limited to the most serious crimes of concern to the
international community as a whole. The Court has jurisdiction in accordance with this Statute
with respect to the following crimes:
(a) The crime of genocide

Article 6
Genocide
For the purpose of this Statute, "genocide" means any of the following acts committed with
intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its
physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.