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(1) Records of crime scene inspections outside the trial, searches of abodes andpersons and seizures of objects, as well as documents, books, files and otherdocumentation serving as evidence, shall be read at the trial for the purpose ofestablishing their contents, and if the chamber so decides, their contents may also bepresented orally in brief. Documents which have the significance of evidence, wherepossible, shall be presented in the original.(2) Objects which may serve to clarify matters during the trial shall be shown to thedefendant, an if needed also to witnesses and expert witnesses. Where suchpresentation has the significance of identification, it shall be acted in accordance withArticle 104 of this Code.Article 337(1) Except for cases especially prescribed in this Code, records of the statements madeby witnesses, co-defendants or participants in the criminal offence who have alreadybeen convicted, as well as records or other documents in connection with the findingsand opinions of expert witnesses, may if so decided by the chamber be read out only inthe following cases:1) if persons who were interrogated or questioned have died, are sufferingfrom a mental illness or cannot be found, or where advanced age, poor healthor other reasons make their appearance before the court impossible or verydifficult;2) if witnesses or expert witnesses decline to give testimony at the trial withoutstatutory reasons.(2) The chamber may, with the consent of the parties, decide that the record of earlierquestioning of witnesses or expert witnesses, or their written findings and opinions, beread out although the witness, or expert witness, is not present, whether of not he wassummoned to the trial. Exceptionally, even without the consent of the parties, or aftertaking their statements, the chamber may decide that a record be read out of theexamination of witnesses or expert witnesses at an earlier trial hearing held before thesame president of the chamber, although the time limit referred to in Article 309paragraph 3 of this Code has run out, or that written findings and opinions be read out ofa professional institution or public authority, when the expert of that institution orauthority which conducted the expert analysis did not come the trial, if, in view of theother evidence adduced, it finds it necessary to acquaint itself with the content of therecord or written finding and opinion. After the record or written finding and opinion areread out and parties’ objections heard (Article 339), taking into consideration the otherevidence adduced, the chamber shall decide whether to question the witness or expertwitness directly.(3) Records of earlier questioning of persons exempted from the duty of giving evidence(Article 98) may not be read out if those persons have not been summoned to the trial orhave before the first questioning at the trial declared that they would not give testimony.After concluding the evidentiary procedure, the chamber shall decide that these recordsbe separated from the files and kept separately (Article 178). The chamber shall actsimilarly in respect of other records and information referred to in Article 178 of this