The amendments move on the following main axes which are :
1) tightening the framework of penalties for specific crimes of particular criminal value,
2) the tightening of the conditional release of convicts as well as the lifting of the release of criminals who repeatedly commit serious crimes; and
3) the restoration and extension of the crime to commonly dangerous offenses such as arson, explosion, flood, etc., to the offenses related to adoption and to the reorganization of the penalties for the offenses of theft and embezzlement (in their misdemeanor form)
The amendments adopted by the Council of Ministers provide:
-Only the sentence of life imprisonment for the offenses of treason, manslaughter, gang rape and rape of a minor and deadly robbery.
- The statute of limitations for crimes against sexual freedom when committed against a minor will start from the age of one and for one year, if the act is a misdemeanor and for three years if the act is a felony.
- Insult on one's own initiative will now be prosecuted for insulting sexual dignity and insulting sexual decency for minors.
- The insult of sexual dignity, when performed in the workplace, etc. (sexual harassment, etc.) is now punishable only by imprisonment (the possibility of alternative sentencing with a fine has been abolished) and is prosecuted ex officio.
The crime of incest returns to its criminal form, as the changes made to the Penal Code in June 2019 were a misdemeanor.
-The offense of sexual acts with minors or in front of them (article 339 of the Penal Code), is now punished only as a crime
- The old provision of article 310 paragraph 1 of the Penal Code for serious bodily harm is restored.
- The provision for bodily injury due to negligence is tightened (article 314 par. 1 of the Penal Code) and a new provision is added according to which the commission of bodily injury against an employee during the execution of the work constitutes an aggravating circumstance.
-The provision for the inappropriate attempt is restored, which had been abolished with the change of the Penal Code in June 2019.
- The framework for the provision of community service in case of non-provision or improper provision of this work by the convict is reshaped and specified.
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