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(2) Where the proposal referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article is made, the parties andthe defence counsel may negotiate on the conditions of admitting guilt for a criminaloffence or criminal offences which the accused is charged.(3) Agreements on the admission of guilt must always be made in writing and may besubmitted no later than the conclusion of the first trial hearing.(4) Where an indictment has not yet been filed, agreements on the admission of guiltshall be submitted to the president of the chamber referred to in Article 24 paragraph 6of this Code, and following the filing of the indictment, agreements on the admission ofguilt shall be submitted to the president of the chamber.(5) The accused and his defence counsel may also cite an agreement on the admissionof guilt in their objection against the indictment.Article 282b(1) In the agreement on the admission of guilt the accused person fully admits thecommission of the criminal offence with which he is charged, of confesses to one ormore of the concurrent criminal offences which are included in the indictment, and theaccused person and the public prosecutor shall agree on the following:1) the type and length of the penalty, or other criminal sanction to be imposedon the accused;2) the abandonement by the public prosecutor of criminal prosecution for thecriminal offences not included in the agreement on the admission of guilt;3) the costs of the criminal proceedings and the indemnification claim;4) on the parties’ and defence counsel’s waiver of the right to appeal against adecision of the court issued on the basis of an agreement on the admission ofguilt, where the court has accepted the agreement in full.(2) In the agreement on the admission of guilt the public prosecutor and the accusedperson may agree on the imposition on the accused of a penalty which may as a rule notbe below the statutory minimum for the criminal offence with which the accused ischarged.(3) By exception, where it is obviously justified by the significance of the confession ofthe accused person for clearing up the criminal offence with which he is charged andwhere proving the offence without such confession would be impossible or very difficult,or for the prevention, detection or successful prosecution of other criminal offences, ordue to the existence of the especially extenuating circumstances referred to in Article 54paragraph 2 of the Criminal Code, the public prosecutor and the accused person mayagree that the accused be imposed a more lenient penalty, within the bounds prescribedby Article 57 of the Criminal Code.