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The Relevant Provisions of the Rome Statute

RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

BOOK I
General provisions on felonies and misdemeanours, the persons responsible, the penalties, security measures and other consequences of criminal offences

TITLE I
On felonies and misdemeanours

CHAPTER I
On felonies and misdemeanours

Article 14

3. An essential error concerning the unlawfulness of the fact constituting the criminal offences precludes criminal accountability. Should it have been possible to overcome the error, the punishment lower by one or two degrees shall be applied.