Traduction de «Prononcé d'une amende » (Français → Anglais) :

The European Parliament is called to state its position via the consultation procedure on the Council decision concerning the approval on behalf of the European Community, of the first and second amendments to the UN/ECE Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context.

If the committee in November endorses these proposals concerning the procedure to be followed, it should adopt only the amendments and not the report as a whole. Otherwise the procedure at committee level would then be concluded and no changes emerging from the negotiations with the Council could subsequently be made to the amendments.

However, the limitation period shall expire at the latest on the day on which a period equal to twice the limitation period has elapsed without the Commission having imposed a fine or a periodic penalty payment.

Although consolidated data on the number of decisions adopted and penalties imposed by national enforcement authorities are not available, the following representative examples can be provided: between the entry into force of the Directive and mid 2011, the Italian Competition Authority issued more than 700 decisions and applied administrative fines totalling € 91 million; the French General Directorate for Competition, Consumer Issues and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) issued 1251 Reports[124] and corresponding fines amounting to approximately € 1.7 million were imposed; [125] the Latvian Consumer Rights Protection Centre took 154 binding decisions and imposed fines of € 159 400; the Finnish Consumer Ombudsman initiated 8 court cases; the Irish ...[+++] National Consumer Agency issued 14 undertakings, 116 compliance notices, 2 prohibition orders, and started 2 prosecutions; the Slovak Trade Inspection issued 46 administrative decisions and imposed a total amount of € 151 800 in fines; and, finally, 18 court rulings and 52 injunction orders were issued in Sweden.

I accept that the rapporteur has just made the suggestion on behalf of the Committee Economic and Monetary Affairs, but since there is no amendment to reject, and there are amendments that need to be put to the vote, I have been informed that according to the Rules of Procedure, I should invite the House to vote on the amendments.

(63) Pursuant to Article 65 (5), the Commission may impose fines or periodic penalty payments on undertakings which have entered into an agreement which is automatically void or have enforced or attempted to enforce an agreement or decision which is automatically void, or have engaged in practices prohibited by paragraph 1 of that Article.