This Criminal Code of Montenegro represents the basic act aimed to define the criminal offences and related penalties. This Law efforts that the protection of human beings and other basic social values is the basis and limits for defining criminal acts, prescribing criminal sanctions and their application, to the extent that it is necessary to suppress those acts. A penalty or other criminal sanction may be imposed only for an act which, before it was committed, was defined by law as a criminal offense and for which a punishment was prescribed by law. Criminal sanctions are: fines, warning measures, security measures and educational measures. The general purpose of prescribing and imposing criminal sanctions is to suppress acts that violate or endanger values protected by criminal legislation. The text is divided into thirty-seven main thematic Chapters and a total of 488 articles. Titles of these Chapters are as follows: I. General provisions; II. Criminal offense; III. Penalties; IV. Warning measures; V. Security measures; VI. Provisions on minors; VII. Confiscation of property benefits; VIII. Legal consequences of conviction; IX. Rehabilitation, termination of the legal consequences of the conviction and providing information from the criminal record; X. Obsolete proceedings; XI. Amnesty and pardon; XI/A. Special surveillance measures; XII. Validity of the criminal legislation of Montenegro; XIII. Meaning of expressions; XIV. Criminal offenses against life and body; XV. Criminal offenses against human and citizen freedoms and rights; XVI. Criminal offenses against electoral rights; XVII. Criminal offenses against honour and reputation; XVIII. Criminal offenses against sexual freedom; XIX. Criminal offenses against marriage and the family; XX. Criminal offenses against labour Law; XXI. Criminal offenses against intellectual property; XXII. Criminal offenses against property; XXIII. Criminal offenses against payment system and economic businesses; XXIV. Criminal offenses against human health; XXV. Criminal offenses against the environment and landscaping; XXVI. Criminal offenses against the general safety of people and property; XXVII. Criminal offenses against public transport safety; XXVIII. Criminal offenses against computer data security; XXIX. Criminal offenses against the constitutional order and security of Montenegro; XXX. Criminal offenses against state authorities; XXXI. Criminal offenses against justice; XXXII. Criminal offenses against public order and peace; XXXIII. Criminal offenses against legal procedures; XXXIV. Criminal offenses against official duties; XXXV. Criminal offenses against humanity and other goods protected by international law; XXXVI. Criminal offenses against the Army of Montenegro; and XXXVII. Transitional and final provisions. Chapter Twenty-five sets related criminal offences against the environment and spatial development in terms of environmental pollution (violation of regulations governing protection, preservation and improvement of the environment, discharges, introduces or disposes of a specific quantity of a substance or ionising radiation into air, water, or soil, thus endangering human life, body or health, or causing risk of a substantial damage to air, water or soil quality, or to animals or plants shall be punished by prison sentence for a term not exceeding three years).
Montenegro · 2003-01-01