3. A person shall not be criminally liable for exceeding the limits of extreme necessity where that person could not, as a result of high excitement raised by the danger, evaluate if the harm caused was proportionate to such danger. Article 40. Physical or mental coercion 1. A person's action or omission that caused harm to legally protected interests, is not to be held a criminal offense, where that person acted under direct physical coercion which rendered him or her unable to be in control of his/her actions. 2. The decision on a person's criminal liability for causing harm to legally protected interests, shall be made pursuant to provisions of Article 39 of this Code, where that person was subject to physical coercion, under which he/she was able to control his/her actions, and also subject to mental coercion. Article 41. Obeying an order or command 1. A person's action or omission that caused harm to legally protected interests, shall be lawful, where that person acted to obey a legal order or instructions. 2. An order or command is held to be lawful where it is duly issued by an appropriate person acting within his/her commission and, in its substance, is not contrary to applicable laws and does not breach the constitutional rights and freedoms of the human being and citizen. 3. A person shall not be criminally liable for disobeying a patently criminal order or command. 4. A person, who obeyed a patently criminal order or command, shall be criminally liable on general grounds for the acts committed in pursuance of such order or command. 5. Where a person was not and could not be aware of the criminal nature of an order or command, the criminal liability for the act committed in pursuance of such order or command shall arise only with respect to the person who gave the criminal order or command. Article 42. An act involving risk 1. No act (action or omission) in prejudice of legally protected interests shall be held to be a criminal offense where it was committed in circumstances of justified risk to achieve a significant purpose valuable to the community. 2. A risk shall be justified if the goal pursued could not, under the circumstances, be achieved otherwise than by an action (omission) involving risk and the person that allowed the risk reasonably believed that he/she exercised enough caution to avert harm to the legally protected interests. 3. A risk shall not be justified if it knowingly endangered lives of other people, or created a threat of environmental disaster or any other emergency. Article 43. Undertaking a special mission to prevent or uncover criminal activities of an organized group or criminal organization 1. A compelled causing of harm to legally protected interests by a person shall not be a criminal offense, where such person was undertaking a special mission, pursuant to law, by