- Criminal liability is time-barred and prosecution ceases for the following criminal offences committed up to 31.12.2011: a) petty offences and b) misdemeanors for which the law provides a sentence of imprisonment of up to one year or a monetary penalty or both. In the case of misdemeanors, if the offender commits, within one year from the publication of the law, a new intentional criminal offence, felony or misdemeanor, and is irrevocably convicted at any time to a custodial sentence exceeding six months, the criminal prosecution that had ceased against them shall continue, and the time elapsed from the cessation of the prosecution until the irrevocable conviction for the new offence shall not be counted towards the limitation period of the first offence.
- Case files concerning the criminal offences of the previous paragraph shall be archived by act of the competent prosecutor or public prosecutor. As regards the fate of the exhibits, a reasoned order shall be issued, in the case of misdemeanors by the competent prosecutor and in the case of petty offences by the competent magistrate.
- Any civil claims arising from the criminal offences of paragraph 1 shall not be affected in any way.
- The limitation of criminal liability and the cessation of criminal prosecution under paragraph 1 shall not apply to violations of: a) Article 358 of the Penal Code, b) Law 690/1945, c) Article 28 of Law 3996/2011 and d) Laws 703/1977 and 3959/2011.
