Source: https://casebook.icrc.org/case-study/germany-international-criminal-code
Timestamp: 2020-06-04 19:59:57
Document Index: 646657413

Matched Legal Cases: ['Arts 49', 'Art. 85', 'Arts 1', 'Art. 7', 'Art. 1', 'Art. 5', 'Arts 1', 'Arts 4', 'Art. 1', 'Art. 8', 'Art. 1', 'Art. 1', 'Art. 1', 'Art. 1', 'Arts 1', 'Art. 1', 'Arts 5', 'Art. 29']

Germany, International Criminal Code | How does law protect in war? - Online casebook
[Source: Germany, Act to Introduce the Code of Crimes against International Law of 26 June 2002; available in German on http://bundesrecht.juris.de/bundesrecht/vstgb/index.html; also available on http://www.icrc.org/ihl; footnotes partially reproduced.]
Is this Code of Crimes against International Law (CCAIL) an application of the so-called principle of “universal jurisdiction”, or of the obligation to prosecute international crimes? Is such a law consistent with international humanitarian law (IHL)? Are States obliged to enact “universal jurisdiction” laws to prosecute war criminals under IHL? Are such laws subject to the requirement of precision in criminal law? Are the provisions of IHL not sufficiently precise? (GC I-IV, Arts 49/50/129/146 respectively; P I, Art. 85) [See also Criminal Repression]
Compare the German CCAIL and the Belgian law (BL) of universal jurisdiction (in particular, CCAIL, Arts 1.1 and 3, and BL, Art. 7; CCAIL, Art. 1.3, and BL, Art. 5; CCAIL, Arts 1.4 and 1.13-14, and BL, Arts 4 and 5.3; CCAIL, Art. 1.5, and BL, Art. 8; CCAIL, Art. 1.6, and BL, Art. 1.1; CCAIL, Art. 1.7, and BL, Art. 1.2; CCAIL, Arts 1.8-12, and BL, Art. 1.3). What are the differences between the two laws, and their respective strengths and weaknesses? [See Belgium, Law on Universal Jurisdiction]
To what extent does the CCAIL draw its inspiration from the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC)? Does it go further than the ICC Statute, or is it more cautious? In terms of excluding criminal responsibility? In the definition of crimes? (ICC Statute, Arts 5-8 and 30-33, see The International Criminal Court [A. The Statute])
What is the legal basis for the non-applicability of statutory limitations in IHL? What link is there between the non-applicability of statutory limitations and the fact that crimes under IHL are not subject to amnesty? Is this a customary rule of IHL? (See Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity, 26 November 1968 (http://www.icrc.org/ihl); ICC Statute, Art. 29)