'Amnesty content' in document 'Bulgaria - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

BULGARIA – CRIMINAL CODE

GENERAL PART

Chapter Nine - LAPSE OF PENAL PROSECUTION AND OF IMPOSED PUNISHMENT

Article 83

An amnesty shall cancel the criminal nature of a certain kind of perpetrated acts or shall exempt from penal responsibility and from the consequences of conviction for certain crimes .

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

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;