Examples of using Polish penal code in English and their translations into Russian
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Member of the Commission for the Reform of the Polish Penal Code.
In the Polish Penal Code there is no stand-alone offence related to the financing of terrorism.
The current reading of Article 113 of Polish Penal Code is the following.
In 2004 the Polish Penal Code was amended and the definition of offence of the terrorist character was introduced.
On 14 November 2011,a law of 29 July 2011 amending the Polish penal code took effect.
Under the new Polish Penal Code, infliction of torture is a crime as specified by international law No. 378 and the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Not all the characterizing features of an act of torture enumerated in article 1 of the Convention were also to be found in the general provisions of the Polish Penal Code.
This issue is interlinked with the provisions of the Polish Penal Code relating to the phenomenon of money laundering, especially Article 299 thereof.
Although there had been no substantial change in the situation, the supplementary report showed that a theoretical third level of protection was granted under the Polish Penal Code and other legislation.
Between April and September 1998, when the new Polish Penal Code replaced the death penalty by life imprisonment as the most serious penal sanction, no executions took place.
In May 2011, the ABW conducted a dawn raid on the home of the owner of AntyKomor. pl, a satirical website criticalof Polish president Bronisław Komorowski, citing that the website was in breach of Article 135 of the Polish Penal Code for insulting the president.
Please provide updated information on the"work currently under way on the implementation into the Polish Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which entered into force on 1 July 2002.
Taking into account the Committee's previous recommendations in relation to the second and third periodic reports of Poland,please explain the reasons why the definition of torture contained in article 1 of the Convention has not yet been incorporated into the Polish Penal Code.
Ms. Osiecka(Poland), replying to the question of whether a racist motivation for an offence was an aggravating circumstance,said that under the Polish Penal Code, the court must take account of the racist character of an offence when it determined the sentence.
The Polish Penal Code criminalizes the following forms of corruption:(a) passive and active bribery of national public officials, public officials of foreign countries or international organizations;(b) influence peddling; and(c) money-laundering.
He asked the delegation to comment on the point raised by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, which had claimed that the offences proscribed in articles 246,247 and 231 of the Polish Penal Code were very general and did not embody all aspects of the definition of torture contained in the Convention.
The Polish Penal Code incorporates penal sanctions against any persons who- in violation of international law- produce, stockpile, acquire, sell, or transport weapons of mass destruction or other means of combat, or conduct research aimed at producing or using such weapons.
Partially accepted; The legal analyses have shown, that complete decriminalization of defamation andthe removal of the art. 212 from the Polish Penal Code would be unjustified, as the responsibility of the state to respect the privacy of the citizens comprises also taking active measures to protect their privacy from the actions of third party.
The Polish Penal Code envisages the penalty of between one and ten years imprisonment for the use of force, illegal threats or other form of physical or mental cruelty by a public official or person acting in his/her name in order to obtain specific testimony, explanations, information or statements.
The basis for applying Polish penal law to aliens who commit an offence abroad is specified by the regulation of article 114, paragraph 1, of the Penal Code, which stipulates that the Polish Penal Code is applied to aliens who commit an offence abroad provided that such act is recognized as an offence also by the law in force in the place where it has been committed.
In addition, the Polish Penal Code incorporates penal sanctions against any person who, in violation of international law, produces, stockpiles, acquires, sells or transports weapons of mass destruction(including nuclear weapons) or other means of combat or conducts research aimed at producing or using such weapons.
Since each action in the meaning of“torture” mentioned in the Convention causes pain or suffering(i.e. specific effect),then the regulations of the Polish Penal Code, which penalize actions performed by anyone who causes such effect(regardless of the perpetrator's position), fully meet the obligations resulting from article 4 of the Convention.
Please provide updated information on the amendment of article 113 of the Polish Penal Code relating to the application of Polish penal law to Polish citizens and aliens who have committed an offence abroad but whose prosecution is binding for Poland pursuant to international agreements. State party report, para. 137.
The above mentioned definition provides for a possibility to introduce more severe sanctions for the perpetrator of an offence of terrorist character(Article 65(1) of the Penal Code) and to apply the Polish Penal Code to Polish nationals,Polish organisational entities and aliens who committed offence of a terrorist character abroad Article 110(1) of the Penal Code. .
The notion of"mental or physical torment" appears in the provisions of criminal law in an unchanged form,starting from the first comprehensive codification of criminal material law of an independent Polish State, i.e. the Penal Code of 1932.
Mr. ZUPANCIC noted that the Polish legislature was reluctant to incorporate formal definitions into the Penal Code.
The Polish Government considered that a broad definition of torture in the Penal Code was sufficient.
The liability of Polish citizens is regulated in article 113 of the Penal Code, which stipulates that the Polish penal law applies to Polish citizens who commit an offence abroad.
The draft new Penal Code takes as its guiding principle that Polish criminal law shall apply to both Polish citizens and foreigners who have committed an offence abroad.
The condition of the said liability is recognition of such act as crime also by the law in force in the place of its commitment(Article 111), provided that regardless of the said provisions,alien is subject to the Polish jurisdiction, in accordance with Article 112 of the Penal Code in case of commission of crime.
