CROATIA CRIMINAL CODE

GENERAL PART

CHAPTER FIVE (v) - PUNISHMENT AND SENTENCING

Article 55

(1) A convict may be released form the institution after having served at least one-half of the term or, exceptionally, after having served one-third of the term to which he has been sentenced, under the conditions determined in the Statute on the Execution of Criminal Sanctions.

(2) A convict serving life sentence may be conditionally released if he has served twenty years of imprisonment. Any deprivation of liberty resulting from the perpetration of a criminal offense is considered to be a served sentence.

(3) A conditional release shall last until the day the pronounced sentence has expired and in the case of a convict serving life imprisonment, fifteen years from the day the conditional release has begun.

(4) If the convict, while on conditional release, commits one or more criminal offenses for which he is sentenced to imprisonment of six months or to a more severe sentence, the court which has pronounced the sentence shall revoke the conditional release and, by applying the provisions of Article 60 of this Code, pronounce an aggregate sentence which will include the part of the sentence the
convict has already served.

(5) The court may also proceed in the way described in the previous paragraph when pronouncing a sentence of imprisonment shorter than six months. If the court does not revoke the conditional release, it shall be extended for the time the convict has spent serving the sentence of imprisonment.

(6) The conditional release may not be revoked if two years have passed from the expiry of the periods specified in paragraph 3 of this Article.