(1) Whoever manufactures or participates in manufacturing or attempts to
manufacture or crossbreed human beings or other species, which is harmful for the
humankind and banned according to the regulations and international law, shall be
sentenced to imprisonment between five and fifteen years.
(2) If the act referred to in the preceding paragraph concerns creation of a
human being, who is genetically identical with another living or dead human being,
creation of human embryos for research, industrial or commercial purposes, or
exchange of important human body parts or organs, which is banned according to the
regulations and international law, the perpetrator shall be sentenced to imprisonment
between ten and fifteen years.
(3) Whoever performs genetic research, which could forecast hereditary
diseases or enable determination of carrying the gene responsible for the disease, or
identify genetic predisposition or susceptibility to a disease, but the research is not
performed exclusively for medical purposes or as medical research for medical
purposes, or whoever in conducting research abandons appropriate genetic consultancy
or, by violating regulations, conducts research in the field of biology and medicine, which
are banned according to the regulations and international law, shall be punished with a
fine or sentence of imprisonment of not more than three years.
(4) Whoever endangers the integrity or life of a human embryo during research
on human embryos shall be punished in the same manner as in the preceding
paragraph.
(5) Whoever enables act under paragraphs 1 or 2 of this Article by providing
financing, buildings, devices or material to create living beings or to crossbreed them, by
recruiting co-workers, or different organisation of the creation shall be sentenced to
imprisonment between three and ten years.
Chapter Fifteen
CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST LIFE AND LIMB
Manslaughter
Article 115
(1) Whoever takes the life of another human being shall be sentenced to
imprisonment between five and fifteen years.
(2) If two or more persons, who joined in order to commit manslaughter, commit
the offence under the preceding paragraph, the perpetrator shall be sentenced to
imprisonment between ten and fifteen years.
Murder