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(i) Crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court (Art. 5)

1. The jurisdiction of the Court shall be limited to the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole. The Court has jurisdiction in accordance with this Statute with respect to the following crimes:

The crime of genocide;

Crimes against humanity;

War crimes;

The crime of aggression.

2. The Court shall exercise jurisdiction over the crime of aggression once a provision is adopted in accordance with Articles 121 and 123 defining the crime and setting out the conditions under which the Court shall exercise jurisdiction with respect to this crime. Such a provision shall be consistent with the relevant provisions of the Charter of the United Nations.

Genocide (Art. 6) For the purpose of this Statute, 'genocide' means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

Killing members of the group;

Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

In the Nuremberg Charter the category of 'crimes against humanity' encompassed genocidal acts but genocide did not emerge as a special category until the adoption of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide in 1948. Article 6 of the ICC Statute is based upon Article II of the Genocide Convention.

Crimes against humanity (Art. 7) I. For the purpose of this Statute, 'crime against humanity' means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack: