'Joint sentence following multiple convictions - national proceedings' 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 60

(2) The court shall pronounce an aggregate sentence according to the following rules:

a) if, for a concurrently adjudicated criminal offense, the court assesses a life sentence, it shall be the only sentence pronounced,

b)if, for concurrently adjudicated criminal offenses, the court assesses imprisonment, the aggregate sentence of imprisonment must be longer than any individual sentence assessed, but shall neither reach the sum total of individual nor exceed twenty years of imprisonment,

c) if, for two or more concurrently adjudicated criminal offenses, the court assesses imprisonment of more than ten years, it shall pronounce an aggregate sentence of imprisonment of twenty years or a life sentence.

d) if, for each concurrently adjudicated criminal offense imprisonment of maximum three years is prescribed, the aggregate sentence shall not exceed eight years of imprisonment,

e) if, for concurrently adjudicated criminal offenses, the court assesses fines, the aggregate fine must be higher than any individual fine but shall neither reach the sum total of all individual fines nor exceed three hundred daily incomes or five hundred daily incomes when at least one criminal offense is committed for personal gain,

(f) if, for some concurrently adjudicated criminal offenses, the court assesses imprisonment and fines for others, it shall impose an aggregate sentence of imprisonment and an aggregate fine pursuant to the rules provided in this Article,

g) if, for concurrently adjudicated criminal offenses, the court assesses imprisonment and imprisonment for juveniles, it shall impose an aggregate sentence of imprisonment, pursuant to the rules laid down in this Article.

CROATIA CRIMINAL CODE

GENERAL PART

CHAPTER FIVE (v) - PUNISHMENT AND SENTENCING

Article 62

(1)When a convict is tried for a criminal offense committed before beginning to serve a sentence as a result of a previous conviction, or for a criminal offense committed while serving imprisonment, long-term imprisonment or juvenile imprisonment, the court shall pronounce an aggregate sentence for all criminal offenses, applying the provisions of Article 60 of this Code, taking the previously assessed sentence as already fixed. The sentence, or the part of the sentence which the convict has already served, shall be included in the pronounced aggregate sentence unless the aggregate sentence is life imprisonment (Article 60, paragraph 2), point a).