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The Relevant Provisions of the Rome Statute

RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

CROATIA CRIMINAL CODE

GENERAL PART

CHAPTER FOUR (iv) CULPABILITY

Article 46

(1) The perpetrator who, for justified reasons, does not know and could not have known that the offense is prohibited shall not be culpable.

(2) If the mistake is avoidable, the punishment may be mitigated.

(3) A mistake shall be deemed avoidable if anyone, and thus also the perpetrator, could have easily
grasped the unlawfulness of the conduct, or if the perpetrator was supposed to know the relevant regulation because of his profession, occupation or service.