This Criminal Code of the Republic of Serbia represent a basis for legal judgment as “No one may be sentenced to a penalty or other criminal sanction for an act that was not defined by law as a criminal offense before it was committed“. Criminal sanctions in terms of this Law 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. Criminal sanctions cannot be imposed on a person who was under fourteen years of age at the time the act was committed. Educational measures and other criminal sanctions can be imposed on a minor under the conditions prescribed by a special law. The criminal legislation of the Republic of Serbia applies to anyone who commits a criminal offense on its territory. Criminal legislation of Serbia also applies to anyone who commits a criminal offense on a domestic ship, regardless of where the ship is at the time of the commission of the offense; and to domestic civil aircraft while in flight or in a domestic military aircraft, regardless of where the aircraft was at the time the criminal offense was committed. The criminal legislation of Serbia applies to a citizen of Serbia even when he commits any other criminal offense abroad, except for the criminal offenses specified in Article 7 of this Code, if he is found on the territory of Serbia or is extradited to Serbia. The criminal legislation of Serbia also applies to a foreigner who commits a criminal offense against him or her citizen outside the territory of Serbia, even if it is not the criminal offense listed in Article 7 of this Code, if he finds himself on the territory of Serbia or is extradited to Serbia. The text is divided into thirty-six main thematic Chapters (with related numbered or titled sub-sections) and a total of 190 articles. Titles of these Chapters are as follows: 1. Basic provisions; II. Validity of the criminal legislation of the Republic of Serbia; III. Criminal offense; IV. Penalties; V. Warning measures; VI. Safety measures; 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 procedures; XI. Amnesty and pardon; XII. Meaning of expressions; XIII. Criminal offences against life and body; XIV. Criminal offenses against human and citizen freedoms and rights; XV. Criminal offenses against electoral rights; XVI. Criminal offenses against labor-based rights; XVII. Criminal offenses against honor and reputation; XVIII. Criminal offences against sexual freedom; XIX. Criminal offenses against marriage and the family; XX. Criminal offenses against intellectual property; XXI. Criminal offenses against property; XXII. Criminal offenses against economy; XXIII. Criminal offenses against human health; XXIV. Criminal offenses against the environment; XXV. Criminal offenses against the general safety of people and property; XXVI. Criminal offenses against public transport safety; XXVII. Criminal offenses against computer data security; XXVIII. Criminal offenses against the constitutional order and security of the Republic of Serbia; XXIX. Criminal offenses against state authorities; XXX. Criminal offenses against justice; XXXI. Criminal offenses against public order and peace; XXXII. Criminal offenses against legal trade; XXXIII. Criminal offenses against official duties; XXXIV. Crimes against humanity and other goods protected by international law; XXXV. Criminal offenses against the Army of Serbia; XXXVI. Transitional and final provisions; This Code also identifies related offences for contamination of food and water for feeding, i.e. feeding animals (article 273), destruction of forests (article 274), transmission of infectious diseases in animals and plants (article 270), killing and abusing animals (article 269), illegal hunting (article 276), illegal fishing (article 277).
Сербия · 2005-09-29