CROATIA CRIMINAL CODE

SPECIAL PART

CHAPTER THIRTEEN (xiii) - CRIMINAL OFFENSES AGAINST VALUES PROTECTED BY INTERNATIONAL LAW

Article 163

(1) Whoever makes or improves, produces, stores, offers for sale or buys, or intermediates in a purchase or sale, possesses, transfers, or transports chemical or biological weapons, or some other means of combat prohibited by the rules of international law, shall be punished by imprisonment for three months to three years.

(2) Whoever, at a time of war or armed conflict, orders the use of chemical or biological weapons, or the means or methods of combat prohibited by the rules of international law, or whoever uses such weapons, means or methods, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one year.

(3) If, by the criminal offense referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, the death of several persons is caused, the perpetrator shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than five years or by long term imprisonment.

Article 8
War crimes
2. For the purpose of this Statute, "war crimes" means:
(b) Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international armed conflict, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts:
(xix) Employing bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body, such as bullets with a hard envelope which does not entirely cover the core or is pierced with incisions