Tarptautinės baudžiamosios teisės normas įtvirtinančių sutarčių tiesioginio taikymo problema
Issues in Self-Execution of International Criminal Law Treaties

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to an analysis of self-execution of international treaties encompassing norms of international criminal law in the sphere of the penal law of the Republic of Lithuania. The analysis presented in the article provides arguments for a thesis that the content of legal norms embedded in international treaties change in the process of their transposition into national criminal law. The arguments provided in the article lead to a conclusion that while international criminal law treaties are considered to be regulating relations between the signatory states only, they should be acknowledged to be covering relations between the state and individuals present in their jurisdiction at the moment when the question of their self-execution is being decided. The latter conclusion provides a possibility to ascertain that international criminal law treaties should be considered to be self-executing in the sphere of the penal law of the Republic of Lithuania.

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