Kazneni zakon Article 215a, Endangering Life and Property by an Artificial Intelligence System
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In force 10 months, effective 13 November 2025.
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not develop, test, verify, oversee, manage, or otherwise use an artificial intelligence system in a way that creates a danger to a person's life or body, or to property on a large scale, in Croatia; this is a criminal offence carrying six months to five years' imprisonment for intentional conduct and up to three years for negligent conduct.
- The penalty rises where the endangerment causes serious bodily injury or extensive property damage (one to ten years intentional, six months to five years negligent), and rises further where it causes one or more deaths (three to fifteen years intentional, one to eight years negligent).
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Kazneni zakon Art. 215a (inserted by Narodne novine 136/2025) punishes intentionally causing danger to life, body or large-scale property through the development, testing, verification, oversight, management or use of an AI system with six months to five years' imprisonment, and the negligent version with up to three years. Where the intentional offence causes serious bodily injury or extensive property damage the range rises to one to ten years, and to three to fifteen years where it causes one or more deaths; the negligent offence's aggravated ranges are six months to five years and one to eight years respectively.
What it reaches
Obligation class
Prohibition
What this law does
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Article 215a of the Kazneni zakon (Criminal Code), inserted by the Act of 24 October 2025 amending the Criminal Code, criminalises developing, testing, verifying, overseeing, managing or otherwise using an artificial intelligence system in a way that creates a danger to a person's life or body, or to property on a large scale, where the conduct does not amount to a more serious offence.
The amending Act defines an artificial intelligence system in the same terms as the EU AI Act: a machine-based system of varying levels of autonomy that, from the input it receives, infers how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments.
Intentional commission carries six months to five years' imprisonment and negligent commission up to three years; where the offence causes serious bodily injury or property damage of a large scale the ranges rise to one to ten years and six months to five years respectively, and where it causes one or more deaths they rise to three to fifteen years and one to eight years respectively.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
Narodne novine (Official Gazette) 136/2025, text of the Act amending the Criminal Code