CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

PART ONE - BASIC PROVISIONS

CHAPTER I - BASIC PRINCIPLES

Article 9 - Sending and Delivery of Documents

The Court and other bodies participating in the proceedings shall issue summonses, decisions and other documents in the official languages referred to in Article 8(1) of this Code.

Submissions shall be filed in the official languages referred to Article 8(1) with the Court and other bodies participating in the proceedings.

The person who is deprived of liberty or in custody, serving sentence or committed to mandatory psychiatric treatment or to mandatory rehabilitation for an addiction, shall also be delivered a translation of the documents referred to in Paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article in their native language or a language they understand.

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

PART TWO - COURSE OF THE PROCEEDINGS

CHAPTER XXI - THE MAIN TRIAL

Section 7 – EVIDENTIARY PROCEDURE

Article 274 - Records on Evidence

Records concerning the crime scene investigation, the search of dwellings and persons, the forfeiture of things, books, records and other evidence, shall be introduced at the main trial in order to establish their content, and at the discretion of the judge or presiding judge, their content may be entered in the record in summarized version.

To prove the content of writing, recording or photograph, the original writing, recording or photograph is required, unless otherwise stipulated by this Code.

Notwithstanding Paragraph 2 of this Article, a certified copy of the original may be used as evidence or the copy verified as unchanged with respect to the original.

Evidence referred to in Paragraph 1 of this Article shall be read unless the parties and the defense attorney do not agree otherwise.