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.

CROATIA CRIMINAL CODE

SPECIAL PART

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

Article 172

Whoever, by force, threat, the perpetration of a criminal offense or by any other way without authorization, procures, possesses, uses, transports, stores, gives to another or enables another to procure nuclear materials shall be punished by imprisonment for three months to three years.

Whoever, by the act referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, endangers human lives and property to a greater extent shall be punished by imprisonment for six months to five years.

The same punishment referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article shall be inflicted on whoever, by serious threat to use nuclear material, endangers the safety of people.

Whoever, in order to compel some state or international organization or a natural or legal person to do or refrain from doing an act, threatens to endanger the lives of people and property to a greater extent through the use of nuclear material shall be punished by imprisonment for one to ten years.

Whoever commits the criminal offense referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article by negligence shall be punished by imprisonment for three months to three years.

If, by the criminal offense referred to in paragraphs 1, 2 and 4 of this Article, the death of one or more persons or extensive damage to property is caused, the perpetrator shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than three years.

If, by the criminal offense referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, the death of one or more persons or extensive damage to property is caused, the perpetrator shall be punished by imprisonment for one to ten years.

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:
(xx) Employing weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare which are of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering or which are inherently indiscriminate in violation of the international law of armed conflict, provided that such weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare are the subject of a comprehensive prohibition and are included in an annex to this Statute, by an amendment in accordance with the relevant provisions set forth in articles 121 and 123