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PROCEDURE FOR INDEMNIFICATION,REHABILITATION AND REALISATION OF OTHERRIGHTS OF PERSONS WRONGFULLY CONVICTEDOR UNLAWFULLY PERPRIVED OF LIBERTYArticle 556(1) The right to indemnification in connection with a wrongful conviction may be claimedby persons against whom criminal sanctions were pronounced by a final decision, orpersons pronounced guilty but whose sentences were remitted, and subsequently inconnection with an extraordinary legal remedy the proceedings had been discontinuedby a final decision or the person was acquitted of the charges by a final decision, or thecharges were denied, except in the following cases:1) if the discontinuance of the proceedings or judgement denying the chargesoccurred because in a new proceedings the subsidiary prosecutor, or privateprosecutor, abandoned prosecution, or because the aggrieved hadabandoned his motion, and the abandonment had occurred based on anagreement reached with the defendant;2) if in a new proceedings the charges were dismissed because a lack of thecourt’s jurisdiction, and the authorised prosecutor initiated prosecution beforea competent court.(2) The convicted person shall not be entitled to indemnification if he had by a falseconfession or in other manner wilfully caused his conviction, except if he had beencoerced into doing so.(3) In case of concurrent criminal offences, the right to indemnification may relate toindividual criminal offences in respect of which the necessary conditions for grantingdamages are fulfilled.Article 557(1) The statutory limit for exercising the right to indemnification shall lapse three yearsafter the first-instance judgement acquitting the defendant or denying the chargesbecame final, or when the first-instance ruling discontinuing proceedings became final, ,and where a higher court ruled on an appeal, from the date of receiving the decision ofthe higher court.(2) Before submitting an indemnification claim to the court, the aggrieved is required tosubmit his request to the ministry responsible for the judiciary for the purpose ofreaching agreement on the existence of damages and the type and amount ofcompensation.