CRIMINAL OFFENSES AGAINST SECURITY OF COMPUTER DATA IN THE REPUBLIKA SRPSKA ACCORDING TO THE CRIMINAL LAW OF 2017
Miodrag N.́ ̌Simovic, Vladimir Šimović, Dragan Jovašević · 2019
In 2003, new criminal legislation came into force in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is established on the basis of international standards, legal traditions, domestic and foreign legal theory and court practice, but also according to the needs of criminal policy. Of the four criminal laws (Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Federation of BiH, the Brcko District of BiH and the Republika Srpska) with numerous novelties, in 2017, the Republika Srpska passed a completely new Criminal Code. This Code, starting from international obligations, in the first place the Convention on Cyber (computer) Crime from Budapest (2003), establishes a system of criminal offenses against the security of computer data, with a system of criminal responsibility and sanctions for natural and legal parties as perpetrators of these criminal offenses. The concept, elements, characteristics and forms of computer crimes in the new legislation of the Republika Srpska are discussed in this paper.