PART ONE
GENERAL PART

CHAPTER ONE
SCOPE OF THE ACT AND FOUNDATIONS OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY

Title Two
Foundations of Criminal Liability

DIVISION ONE
CONCEPT OF CRIMINAL OFFENCE AND TYPES OF CRIMINAL OFFENCES

Section 13
Preparation for Committing a Crime

(1) Preparation for committing a crime means wilful organisation of a criminal act, procurement or adaptation of means or instruments for its commission, associating, grouping, instigating, contracting, abetting or aiding in such crime, or other deliberate actions designed to create conditions for its commission, where a crime has been neither attempted nor completed.

(2) Preparation for committing a felony shall carry the same punishment as the crime, for which it has been intended.

(3) The punishability of the preparation for committing a crime shall become extinguished if the offender willfully

a) stopped performing the action leading to the commission of a crime, and removed the threat to an interest protected under this Act presented by the preparation, or
b) gave information about the preparation for committing a crime at such time when it was still possible to remove the threat to an interest protected under this Act presented by the preparation. Such information shall be submitted to the authorities with competence for criminal proceedings or to the Police Force. Members of the armed forces may give such information to their superior officers. Persons serving their imprisonment sentences or remanded in custody may give such information also to the officers of the Corps of Prison and Court Guard of the Slovak Republic.

(4) The application of paragraph 3 does not, however, prejudice the criminal liability of the offender for a different criminal offence he had already committed through such an action.

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:
(f) Attempts to commit such a crime by taking action that commences its execution by means of a substantial step, but the crime does not occur because of circumstances independent of the person's intentions. However, a person who abandons the effort to commit the crime or otherwise prevents the completion of the crime shall not be liable for punishment under this Statute for the attempt to commit that crime if that person completely and voluntarily gave up the criminal purpose.