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GENERAL PART
TITLE TWO
CRIME
CHAPTER THREE
CONCEPT AND CLASSIFICATION OF CRIMES
Article 19. Multiple Crimes
19.1. Committing two or more crimes specified in several articles of the Criminal Code when the person concerned has not been sentenced for any of them shall be called multiple/ concurrent crimes. The person who committed concurrent crimes shall be subject to criminal liability for each of the crime specified in the Special Part.
19.1. One episode act or omission that contains signs of crimes specified in two or more articles of the Special Part of the Criminal Code shall be recognized concurrent crime.
GENERAL PART
TITLE THREE
CRIMINAL LIABILITY
CHAPTER TEN
IMPOSITION OF AND RELEASE FROM PUNISHMENT
Article 57. Imposing Penalty for Accumulative Crimes
57.1. If a culprit has committed two or more crimes specified in different articles or in different paragraphs of the same article of the Special Part of this Code and has not been sentenced for any of them, the court, having determined penalty separately for each crime, shall determine the actual penalty to be served in person by absorbing the less severe penalty in the more severe one or by adding up wholly or partially all the meted out penalties within the limits specified by the article of this Code which specifies the more severe penalty.
57.2. When imposing penalty for the crime committed by the culprit one or more supplemental penalties specified in the articles of the Special Part this Code may append the principal penalty.
57.3. The same rules shall apply to imposing penalty if after the judgment has been rendered the convict has been found to have committed another crime before being sentenced.