Application of the Legislation Concerning the Place of Commission of the Offense and Nationality of Legal Entity
Conclusion: Legislations in Bosnia and Herzegovina have regulated the issues of application of the national legislation to the legal persons in accordance with the international standards and solutions that are usually applied in comparative legislation.
If a national or foreign legal person committed an offence on the Bosnia and Herzegovina territory, the perpetrator shall be subject to the national legislation (territorial principle). Legislations in Bosnia and Herzegovina are applied to the foreign legal person which pursues its registered activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina or has a registered organizational unit in BiH. In other cases, national law is applied to the legal person solely to the extent necessary for the purpose of preventing it from avoidance of responsibility for the offence committed on the territory of another state.
In resolving the issue whether the requirements for application of the national law to the national or foreign legal person are satisfied, it is necessary to follow the order of checking the fulfillment of the legally prescribed requirements. At the beginning, it is necessary to establish the place of commission of the offence (where one or more acts were committed and other constitutive elements of the particular offence exist), which value was affected by the offence and who is the victim, as well as, establish the nationality of the legal person who is the offender.
Keywords: validity, personality, foreign legal person.
Primjena zakonodavstva u vezi sa mjestom izvršenja krivičnog djela i državljanstvom pravnog lica
Rezime: Najsloženija pitanja važenja krivičnog zakonodavstva u pravilu se otvaraju prilikom utvrđivanja mogućnosti primjene domaćeg zakonodavstva na pravna lica, naročito na stranâ pravna lica.
U odnosu na domaće pravno lice, strano pravno lice ima specifičan položaj, na koji utiču okolnosti da je registrovano u jednoj državi prema zakonima države registracije, a svoju poslovnu djelatnost obavlja i u drugoj državi (državama), te okolnost da svaka država ima pravo da sama određuje vezu državljanstva učinioca i krivičnog djela. Zato se prije donošenja odluke o primjeni domicilnog zakonodavstva mora utvrditi državljanstvo svakog pravnog lica, a tek nakon toga riješiti pitanje koje zakonodavstvo će biti primjenjeno na pravno lice u konkretnom slučaju.
Autor u radu daje sažet pregled pravila iz međunarnodnih dokumenata i više uporednih zakonodavstava u domenu primjene domicilnog zakonodavstva na pravna lica, te daje odgovor na pitanje da li su zakonodavstva u Bosni i Hercegovini pitanje primjene domicilnog zakonodavstva na pravna lica propisala u skladu sa međunarodnim standardima i dobrim primjerima iz uporednog zakanodavstva.
Ključne riječi: važenje, personalitet, strano pravno lice.