Editing International Criminal Court (section)

=== Temporal jurisdiction requirements ===
{{Anchor|Temporal jurisdiction}}
Temporal jurisdiction is the time period over which the Court can exercise its powers. No statute of limitations applies to any of the crimes defined in the Statute.<ref name="RomeStatute" />{{rp|article 29}} This is not completely retroactive. Individuals can only be prosecuted for crimes that took place on or after 1 July 2002, which is the date that the Rome Statute entered into force.<ref name="RomeStatute" />{{rp|article 11(1)}} If a state became party to the Statute, and therefore a member of the Court, after 1 July 2002, then the Court cannot exercise jurisdiction prior to the membership date for certain cases.<ref name="RomeStatute" />{{rp|article 11(2)}} For example, if the Statute entered into force for a state on 1 January 2003, the Court could only exercise temporal jurisdiction over crimes that took place in that state or were committed by a national of that state on or after 1 January 2003.