CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

PART ONE - BASIC PROVISIONS

CHAPTER IX - SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE ACTIONS

Article 117 - Criminal Offenses as to Which Special Investigative Measures May Be Ordered

Measures referred to in Article 116(2) of this Code may be ordered for following criminal offenses:

criminal offenses against the integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina;

criminal offenses against humanity and values protected under international law;

criminal offenses of terrorism;

criminal offenses for which, pursuant to the law, a prison sentence of three (3) years or more may be pronounced.

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.