'Aggregation of criminal offences' in document 'Croatia - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

CROATIA CRIMINAL CODE

GENERAL PART

CHAPTER FIVE (v) - PUNISHMENT AND SENTENCING

Article 61

(1) The provisions of this Code regarding concurrently adjudicated criminal offenses shall not apply to a criminal offense arising out of the same transaction.

(2) A criminal offense arises out of the same transaction when the perpetrator intentionally commits a number of identical unlawful acts or unlawful acts of the same type against the same injured person in which the manner of perpetration, the temporal connection and other material circumstances connecting them constitute a whole.

(3) When a criminal offense arising out of the same transaction comprises offenses of the same statutory description, the court shall choose the type and the range of the sentence prescribed for such a criminal offense. If criminal offenses of the same type are at issue, the court shall choose the type and the range of sentence prescribed for the most serious of these offenses.