Traduction de «Peine maximale applicable » (Français → Anglais) :

E. whereas on 11 December 2009, President Hugo Chávez, in a speech broadcast on TV, called her a bandit, asking the Attorney General to apply the maximum penalty and even urging the National Assembly to pass a new law to aggravate sentences for this type of behaviour, to be enforced retroactively,

E. whereas on 11 December, President Hugo Chávez, in a speech broadcast on TV, called her a bandit, asking the Attorney General to apply the maximum penalty and even urging the National Assembly to pass a new law to aggravate sentences for this type of behaviour, to be enforced retroactively,

4. Condemns the public statements made by the President of the Republic of Venezuela, insulting and denigrating the judge, demanding a maximum sentence and requesting a modification of the law to enable a more severe penalty to be imposed; considers that these statements are aggravating the circumstances of her detention and constitute an attack on the independence of the judiciary by the President of a nation, who should be its first guarantor;

Regarding the level of penalties, following consideration of the issues under the Belgian and Spanish Presidencies, the Council (JHA) on 25 and 26 April 2002 adopted conclusions on the approach to apply regarding approximation of penalties, with the establishment of ranges to determine the minimum level of the maximum penalty to be applied, as follows:

It must also be borne in mind that as regards the approximation of penalties the exercise has so far been confined to defining the penalties applicable either as effective, proportionate and dissuasive or in terms of the minimum level of the maximum penalty.

Most Member States provide for maximum penalties of imprisonment (in respect of the conduct of counterfeiting in general, referred to in Article 3 (1) (a): Sweden has a maximum of 8 years imprisonment for 'gross' counterfeiting; the Netherlands, 9 years; Austria, Finland (for aggravated counterfeiting) the United Kingdom and Ireland have a maximum penalty of 10 years; Denmark, Italy and Portugal: 12 years; Germany and Luxembourg (banknotes): 15 years; Belgium (banknotes): 20 years; France 30 years; Greece has a system of a minimum penalty of imprisonment of 10 years; Spain provides for a penalty of imprisonment between 8 years (m ...[+++]inimum) and 12 years (maximum)).