5 Article 12. Application of Criminal Code in Respect of Persons Who Committed Crimes outside Uzbekistan National of the Republic of Uzbekistan, as well as stateless persons permanently residing in Uzbekistan, shall be liable for crimes committed in the territory of another State, if a court of the state, on whose territory the crime was committed, has not sentenced them. An Uzbek national may not be extradited for a crime committed on the territory of a foreign State, unless otherwise is not envisaged by international treaties or agreements. Foreign nationals, as well as stateless persons, not permanently residing in Uzbekistan, for crimes committed outside its territory, shall be liable under this code if otherwise is envisaged by international treaties or agreements. Article 13. Application of Law in Time Criminality and punishability of an act shall be established by a law being valid at the moment of commission of the act. As time of commission of a crime shall be recognized the time of commission of a socially dangerous act, if an Article of this Code determines a moment of completion of an crime as a moment of completion of action or inaction. As time of commission of a crime shall be recognized the time of emergence of criminal consequences of an crime, if an article of this Code determines a moment of completion of an crime as a moment of emergence thereof. A law decriminalizing an act, mitigating a penalty or otherwise improving the position of a person, shall be retroactive, that is, shall be applied to persons, who had committed the appropriate act before this law came into effect, as well as to persons, who are serving their penalty or have served it with non-cancelled conviction. A law criminalizing an act, severing a penalty or otherwise worsening position of a person, shall not be retroactive. SECTION TWO. GROUNDS FOR LIABILITY CHAPTER 3. CRIME Article 14. Notion of Crime A culpable socially dangerous act (action or inaction) prohibited by this Code on pain of imposing of a penalty shall be recognized as a crime. An act causing or inviting a real danger to the objects protecting by this Code shall be recognized as a socially dangerous act. Article 15. Crime Classification Crimes, on the grounds of their character and degree of social danger, shall be divided into: with insignificant social danger; less serious; serious; especially serious. Intentional crimes punishable under law by imprisonment up to three years, as well as crimes committed unintentionally and punishable under law by imprisonment up to five years shall be classified as crimes with insignificant social danger.