In the present paper the authors examine the quality of the Slovak Criminal Code in the context of both its recasting and state criminal policy. They reach the first conclusion that this law meets all qualitative aspects also on international scale and it protects fundamental rights and freedoms at a very high level. Further, they address a question of what then are the reasons for its frequent amendments. They draw the second conclusion by stating that the reasons for such amendments are predominantly objective, given by the impact of the law of the European Union and the needs of application practice nationwide in the dynamically changing social relationships underway over the past decades. They also admit some subjective mistakes in the Slovak legislative process which must be necessarily prevented.