A penalty also involves respect for the victim.

Secondly, in some Member States, infringements are prosecuted under criminal law, whereas in others, they are dealt with solely by administrative means.

There is one further penal measure which the Community should by statute introduce now.

Nor, however, is it clear that punishment is justified in all circumstances.

A contractual penalty clause ( or any other appropriate remedy ) must be included in the supply agreements .

A contractual penalty clause (or any other appropriate remedy) must be included in the supply agreements.

To enforce the above principles, criminal law must only be used if it is indispensable.

That is what we would like to say to all our Chancellors of the Exchequer it is worthwhile sacrificing a little bit of fiscal sovereignty in order to attain much larger economic goals.

In all events, even if the purely Community method were accepted, it would be confined to making provision for one criminal sanction.

The inactivity for instance of the Irish Government to date cannot be a good omen, given that we have on our doorstep the provisional IRA, a terrorist organization with a turnover of several million pounds a year, most of it raised from illegal rackets of one kind or another.

Sanction for sanction, retaliation for retaliation.

At present some countries have no penalty whatsoever, some impose a very small fine and in some countries the fines are perhaps too penal.

Similarly, the report aims to exempt the humanitarian organisations assisting illegal immigrants from any form of penalty (Article 4, Amendment No 11).

Imprisonment or other alternative sanction by way of substitution for non recovery of the financial penalty

Payment with sanction

Partial payment of the penalty

Financial measures shall include

Whatever the age of the child, vulnerability, the degree of abuse and the nature of abuse must be the guiding factors when setting penalties irrespective of age.

Whatever the age of the child, vulnerability, the degree of abuse and the nature of abuse must be the guiding factors when setting penalties irrespective of age.

A financial penalty shall not include

The crackdown began in the night.

Penalties for infringements Compromise procedure

Penalties for infringements Compromise procedure

Penalties for infringements Compromise procedure

São Tomé and Príncipe shall notify the European Union within 24 hours of any detention of a European Union vessel holding a licence.

At the end of each inspection, the Senegalese inspector shall draw up an inspection report.

This notification shall be accompanied by documentary evidence of the infringement.

Madagascar shall send a copy of the inspection report to the EU within eight working days of inspectors' returning to land, without prejudice to the provisions referred to in point 1 of Section 7 of this Annex.

Infringements

Where the Cape Verdean legislation in force so provides with regard to the alleged infringement, the Union vessel concerned may be forced to cease its fishing activity and, where the vessel is at sea, to return to a Cape Verdean port.

Before taking any measure against the vessel, the master, the crew or the cargo, with the exception of measures aimed at protecting evidence, Liberia shall organise, at the request of the Union, within one working day of notification of the detention of the vessel, an information meeting to clarify the facts which have led to the vessel being detained and to explain what further action may be taken.

financial penalty shall mean the obligation to pay

The decision imposing a financial penalty

The International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt) is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal that sits in The Hague in the Netherlands.

I took the punishment that came to me.

Moreover, the penalty is extremely lenient.

in full, if no penalty has been imposed

in full, if no penalty has been imposed

Legal proceedings Bank security

Where permitted under the Senegalese legislation in force regarding the infringement, any Union fishing vessel having committed an infringement may be forced to cease its fishing activity and, where the vessel is at sea, to return to the port of Dakar.

If an infringement is established, and if current Malagasy legislation so permits, any EU fishing vessel which has committed an infringement may be forced to cease its fishing activity and, where the vessel is at sea, to return to a port of Madagascar.

The notification will refer to the reasons of the arrest and or detention and be accompanied by evidence of the infringement concerned.

The compromise procedure shall finish at the latest three days after notification of the vessel's detention.

for the amount of the remaining balance, if the penalty is a fine which is lower than the amount of the bank security.

The bank security may not be recovered until the legal proceedings have been concluded.