'Improper use of the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - IAC' in document 'Slovenia - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

GENERAL PART

Chapter Fourteen
CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST HUMANITY

War Crimes

Article 102

Whoever orders or commits war crimes, especially if they are committed as part of an integral plan or policy, or as part of an extensive implementation of such crimes, namely the following :

2) 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 :

- making improper use of a flag of truce, of the flag or of the military insignia and uniform of the enemy or of the United Nations, or insignia or the flag of the Red Cross, or insignia that conform to them, as well as of the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions or markings of cultural property according to the Hague Convention (The Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict with the Rules for its implementation (Official Gazette of FPRY - International agreements, No 4/56) and the Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No 22/2003)), resulting in death or serious personal injury ;

GENERAL PART

Chapter Fourteen

CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST HUMANITY

War Crimes
Article 102

- making improper use of a flag of truce, of the flag or of the military insignia and uniform of the enemy or of the United Nations, or insignia or the flag of the Red Cross, or insignia that conform to them, as well as of the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions or markings of cultural property according to the Hague Convention (The Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict with the Rules for its implementation (Official Gazette of FPRY - International agreements, No 4/56) and the Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No 22/2003)), resulting in death or serious personal injury;

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

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:
(vii) Making improper use of a flag of truce, of the flag or of the military insignia and uniform of the enemy or of the United Nations, as well as of the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions, resulting in death or serious personal injury