Criminal Code
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CONSOLIDATED TEXT 1Criminal Code (“Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia” nos.
37/1996, 80/1999, 4/2002, 43/2003, 19/2004, 81/2005, 60/2006, 73/2006, 7/2008, 139/2008,
114/2009, 51/2011, 135/2011, 185/2011, 142/2012, 166/2012, 55/2013, 82/2013, 14/2014,
27/2014, 28/2014, 41/2014, 115/2014, 132/2014, 160/2014, 199/2014, 196/2015, 226/2015,
97/2017 and 248/2018). Decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Macedonia:
U. no. 220/2000 dated 30 May 2001, published in the “Official Gazette of the Republic of
Macedonia” no. 48/2001; U. no. 210/2001 dated 06 February 2002, published in the “Official
Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia” no. 16/2002; U. no. 206/2003 dated 09 June 2004,
published in the “Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia” no. 40/2004; U. no.
228/2005 dated 05 April 2004, published in the “Official Gazette of the Republic of
Macedonia” no. 50/2006; and U. no. 169/2016 dated 16 November 2017, published in the
"Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia" no. 170/2017.
GENERAL PART
Chapter one
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Lawfulness in the determination of crimes and prescribing criminal
sanctions
Article 1
Nobody can be imposed a sentence or some other criminal sanction for an act, which prior
to its commission is not determined by law or an international agreement ratified in
accordance with the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia as a crime and for which no
sentence is prescribed by law.
Basis and limits of criminal-legal coercion
Article 2
The protection of human freedoms and rights and of other basic values, and the application
of criminal-legal coercion, when within an extent being necessary to prevent socially harmful
activities, represent the basis and limit for determination of the crimes and the prescribing
criminal sanctions.
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