SPECIAL PART

TITLE THIRTY-ONE
CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST JUDICIARY

Giving a False testimony

Article 389
(1) A witness, expert witness, translator or interpreter who gives a false testimony before the court in a disciplinary, misdemeanor or administrative procedure or any other procedure laid down by law shall be punished by a prison term up to three years.

(2) The punishment under para. 1 above shall also apply to a party who in the course of presentation of evidence by hearing parties in a court or administrative procedure gives a false testimony, when such a testimony serves as grounds for the decision passed in that procedure.

(3) Where a false testimony was given in criminal proceedings, the perpetrator giving such a testimony shall be punished by a prison term from three months to five years.

(4) Where the offence under para. 3 above resulted in particularly grave consequences for the accused, the perpetrator shall be punished by a prison term from one year to eight years.

(5) If the perpetrator revokes the false testimony of his own free will before the final decision is passed, he shall be punished by a fine or a prison term up to three months, and punishment may also be remitted.

SPECIAL PART

TITLE THIRTY-ONE
CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST JUDICIARY

Interference in Production of Evidence

Article 390
(1) Anyone who gives, offers or promises a gift or other undue advantage to a witness or expert witness or other participant before a court or other state authority or who uses force or threat against him in order for that person to affect the outcome of the proceedings by giving false testimony or by refraining from giving a testimony shall be punished by a prison term from six months to five years.

(2) Anyone who with the intention to prevent or impede production of evidence conceals, destroys, damages, or makes unusable in whole or in part someone else's document or other objects which serve as evidence shall be punished by a fine or a prison term up to one year.

(3) The punishment under para. 2 above shall also apply to anyone who with the intention referred to in para. 2 hereof removes, destroys, damages, moves or relocates a borderline stone, land registry mark or any other mark indicating ownership of real estate or right to the use of water, or a person who fraudulently places such a mark with the same intention.

SPECIAL PART

TITLE THIRTY-FOUR
CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST OFFICIAL DUTY

Passive Bribery

Article 423
(1) A public official who directly or indirectly solicits or receives a gift or any other undue advantage, or who accepts a promise of a gift or any undue advantage for himself or for another person for agreeing to perform an official or other act which he must not perform, or not to perform an official or other act which he must perform shall be punished by a prison term from two to twelve years.

(2) A public official who directly or indirectly solicits or receives a gift or any other undue advantage, or who accepts a promise of gift or any undue advantage for himself or another person for agreeing to perform an official or other act which he must perform, or not to perform an official or other act which he must not perform shall be punished by a prison term from two to eight years.

(3) A public official who commits the offences under paras 1 or 2 above in relation to detection of a criminal offence, initiating or conducting of criminal proceedings, pronouncing or enforcing of a criminal sanction shall be punished by a prison term from three to fifteen years.

(4) A public official who after performing an official or other act or after refraining from performing an official or other act as envisaged by paras 1, 2 and 3 above, or in conjunction with such acts, solicits or receives a gift or other undue advantage shall be punished by a prison term from three months to three years.

(5) A foreign public official who commits any of the offences under paras 1, 2, 3 and 4 above shall be punished by the punishment prescribed for that offence.

(6) Where a responsible officer or another person in an institution or other noncommercial entity commits any of the offences under paras 1, 2 and 4 above shall be punished by the punishment prescribed for that offence.

(7) The gift received or any other undue advantage gained shall be confiscated.

SPECIAL PART

TITLE THIRTY-FOUR
CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST OFFICIAL DUTY

Active Bribery
Article 424

(1) Anyone who gives, offers or promises a gift or other undue advantage for himself or for another person to a public official or another person for agreeing to perform and official or other act he must not perform or not to perform an official or other act he must perform or anyone who intercedes in bribing a public official in the manner described above shall be punished by a prison term from six months to five years.

(2) Anyone who gives, offers or promises a gift or other undue advantage to a public official or other person for agreeing to perform an official or other act he must perform or not to perform an official or other act he must not perform, or anyone who intercedes in bribing a public official in the manner described above shall be punished by a prison term up to three years.

(3) The provisions of paras 1 and 2 above shall also apply where a gift or other undue advantage was given, offered or promised to a foreign public official.

(4) The punishment may be remitted where a perpetrator of the offences under paras 1, 2 and 3 above had reported the criminal offence before he learned that the crime had been detected.

(5) The provisions of paras 1, 2 and 4 above shall also apply when a gift or other undue advantage was given, offered or promised to a a responsible officer or other person in an institution or another non-commercial entity.

Part Two
COURSE OF THE PROCEEDINGS

V THE MAIN HEARING AND JUDGMENT

Chapter XXII
THE MAIN HEARING

2. DIRECTION OF THE MAIN HEARING

Maintenance of order and imposition of punishment due to disruption of order and procedural discipline

Article 321
(1) If the defendant, defense attorney, the injured party, proxy, legal representative, witness, expert witness, interpreter or other person attending the main hearing disrupts order, insults the Court, parties and other participants to the proceedings or fails to comply with the directions of the Chair of the Panel concerning the maintenance of order, the Chair of the Panel shall warn him/her. If such a warning fails to be successful, the Panel may order the defendant to be removed from the Courtroom, while other persons may not only be removed but also punished by a fine in the amount not exceeding € 1.000.

(2) By a decision of the Panel, the defendant may be removed from the Courtroom for a certain period of time, and if s/he has already been examined at the main hearing, than for the whole presentation of evidence. Before the presentation of evidence is completed, the Chair of the Panel shall call in the defendant and inform him/her about the course of the main hearing. If the accused continues to disrupt order and offend the dignity of the Court, the Panel may remove him/her again from the Courtroom. In such a case, the main hearing shall be concluded in the absence of the defendant, and the judgment shall be communicated to him/her by the Chair of the Panel or by a judge, who is the member of the Panel, in the presence of the Court clerk.

(3) The Panel may deny further defense or representation at the main hearing to a defense attorney or proxy who after being punished continues to disrupt order, and in such a case the party shall be called on to retain another defense attorney or proxy. If it is impossible for the defendant who has not been examined at the main hearing to do so, or if in the case of mandatory defense it is impossible for the Court to assign a new defense attorney without prejudicing the defense, the main hearing shall be recessed or a continuance of the main hearing shall be ordered, and the defense attorney shall be ordered to pay expenses incurred due to the interruption or postponement of the main hearing. If the private Prosecutor or subsidiary Prosecutor do not retain another proxy, the Panel may decide to continue the main hearing in the absence of a proxy, if it establishes that this would not prejudice the interests of the person whom s/he represents. A ruling thereon shall be entered into the records along with the statement of reasons. An interlocutory appeal may not be filed against this ruling.

(4) If the Court removes the subsidiary Prosecutor or the private Prosecutor or their legal representative from the Courtroom, the main hearing shall continue in their absence, but the Court shall instruct them that they may retain a proxy.

(5) If the State Prosecutor or a person acting on his/her behalf disrupts order, the Chair of the Panel shall notify the competent State Prosecutor thereof, and s/he may recess the main hearing and request the competent State Prosecutor to appoint other person to represent the prosecution.

(6) After punishing an attorney who disrupts order, the Court shall notify about that the Bar Chamber of which s/he is a member.