Practice question
A party proves that an act was criminal under a national code but concedes it does not fall within any applicable Rome Statute crime definition. It claims Article22(3) automatically converts every independently criminal act into an ICC offense. What is correct?
- Article22(3) preserves independent characterization; it does not expand ICC crime definitions to every outside offense
- Every national offense automatically becomes an ICC crime
- The national code unilaterally amends the Rome Statute
- No other court may ever prosecute it
- The accused’s occupation determines subject-matter jurisdiction
Legal references
- Rome Statute: https://legal.un.org/icc/statute/99_corr/cstatute.htm Articles11,22–24 and29.
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