Legislation European Union    The atricle claims The European Union has ratified a law banning incitement to or denial of genocide both the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide The source reads The European Union has just ratified a law banning incitement to or denial of genocide arguably including both the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide Some enthusiasts removed the word arguably when citing the source   Lets have a look at the law itself   Framework decision on combating racism and xenophobia  Official Press Release  Certain forms of conduct as outlined below which are committed for a racist or xenophobic purpose are punishable as criminal offences  public condoning denying or grossly trivialising crimes of genocide  as defined in the Statute of the International Criminal Court Articles   and  and crimes defined in Article  of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal when the conduct is carried out in a manner likely to incite violence or hatred against such a group or a member of such a group   Example Somebody publicly claims that an act of genocide the commission of which has been established as a fact by an international court never happened and was invented by the ethnic group concerned solely for the purpose of being able to claim compensation payments This allegation would not only deny the genocide committed against the ethnic group concerned but would also incite hatred against this group In the future all Member States would be compelled to criminalise such a case   Whether a specific historical crime falls within these definitions must be decided in each concrete case by the court which has jurisdiction In the case of the Holocaust for example this was done by the Nuremberg Tribunal  As we see the law is restricted to cases when  the commission of genocide is established by an international court and  the denial is carried out in a manner likely to incite violence or hatred Is the commission of Armenian genocide established by an international court