'Common purpose' in document 'Uzbekistan - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

GENERAL PART

SECTION TWO. GROUNDS FOR LIABILITY

CHAPTER 7. CRIMINAL COMPLICITY

Article 29. Forms of Complicity

Forms of complicity shall be, as follows: simple complicity, compound complicity, an organized group, and a criminal community. Simple complicity shall be participation of two or three persons in commission of a crime without a previous concert.

Compound complicity shall be participation of two or three persons in commission of a crime by previous concert. Organized crime group shall be a previous association of at least two people into a group for a joint criminal activity. Criminal community shall be a previous association of at least two groups for criminal activity.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 25
Individual criminal responsibility
3. In accordance with this Statute, a person shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment for a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court if that person:
(d) In any other way contributes to the commission or attempted commission of such a crime by a group of persons acting with a common purpose. Such contribution shall be intentional and shall either:
(i) Be made with the aim of furthering the criminal activity or criminal purpose of the group, where such activity or purpose involves the commission of a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court; or
(ii) Be made in the knowledge of the intention of the group to commit the crime