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20:24 Nov 18, 2015 

The criminal/civil law point you raise is interesting. I actually have no beef with (and use) “(constituent) elements”. What we are lacking here is context – it might be (but, as it turns out, evidently isn’t) one of those “odd Czecho-Slovak” sentences where the author refuses to call a spade a spade, so it sounds overly formal if translated literally.
On a base level, if it’s a report for, say, the Commission, I’d probably call their bluff and go for “amounts to/is a crime”. In a piece of legislation or a more complex judicial text, I’d likely plump for the elements.

19:18 Nov 18, 2015 

perhaps “statutory features”?

19:13 Nov 18, 2015 

Having said that, using “elements” sucks, ’cause those are traditionally, in common law, actus reus and mens rea (subjektivní a objektivní stránka), but I couldn’t find a better word.

19:08 Nov 18, 2015 

As much as I appreciate a daring solution, I find this of great theoretical interest, not merely a matter of register.

The odd Czechoslovak wording has to do with the “formal conception” of criminal law, which is quite the antithesis of common law approach.

(..that’s why search yields few results from common law jurisdictions.)

Also see „čin jinak trestný“, which is sorta-like “would amount to crime”, but that is the next logical step.