Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction is one the legal terms that must be used with extreme caution. Most generally jurisdiction is understood as the power of the State to regulate affairs pursuant to its laws.1 Controversial issues may arise when offence assumes international aspect which can cause conflict between jurisdictions of the countries. In each of the preceding bases of jurisdiction there must be a material link between the state asserting jurisdiction and the crime. According to the legal doctrine, the exercise of universality principle requires such conditions: the relevant criterion for the application of the universality principle is the nature of the crime, not the place where the crime was committed, the nationality of the accused or the victim, or other elements. States invoke other bases of jurisdiction under international law such as: the territorial principle (jurisdiction over crimes committed in the territory of the prosecuting state); the active nationality principle (jurisdiction over