Traduction de «principe de la peine aggravée » (Français → Anglais) :

– (NL) Mr President, a number of weeks ago, legal proceedings instituted by the junta in Burma in a bid to put scores, at least one hundred, of members of the opposition, including the comedian Zarganar and the monk Ashin Gambira, behind bars following shady trials, were being wound up.

Framework Decisions 2005/214/JHA on the application of the principle of mutual recognition to financial penalties (2), 2006/783/JHA on the application of the principle of mutual recognition to confiscation orders (3), 2008/909/JHA on the application of the principle of mutual recognition to judgments in criminal matters imposing custodial sentences or measures involving deprivation of liberty for the purpose of their enforcement in ...[+++] the European Union (4) and 2008/947/JHA on the application of the principle of mutual recognition to judgments and probation decisions with a view to the supervision of probation measures and alternative sanctions (5) allow the executing authority to refuse the execution of such judgments.

This Framework Decision respects fundamental rights and adheres to the principles recognised in Article 6 of the Treaty on European Union, which are also expressed in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, especially in Chapter VI thereof. No provision of this Framework Decision should be interpreted as prohibiting refusal to recognise a judgment and/or supervise a probation measure or alternative sanction if there are objective reasons to believe that the probation measure or alternative sanction was imposed to punish a person because of his or her sex, race, religion, ethnic origin, nationality, language, political op ...[+++]inions or sexual orientation or that this person might be disadvantaged for one of these reasons.

This Framework Decision respects fundamental rights and adheres to the principles recognised in Article 6 of the Treaty on European Union, which are also expressed in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, especially in Chapter VI thereof. No provision of this Framework Decision should be interpreted as prohibiting refusal to recognise a judgment and/or supervise a suspensory measure or alternative sanction if there are objective indications that the suspensory measure or alternative sanction was imposed to punish a person because of his or her sex, race, religion, ethnic origin, nationality, language, political convict ...[+++]ions or sexual orientation, or that this person might be disadvantaged for one of these reasons.

Even if the same penalty is defined for the same offence, there are major divergences in the general rules of criminal law on the Member States, so that the penalty imposed and the penalty served may not be the same (for example in the active detection of offences, the principle of mandatory or discretionary prosecution, the level of the sentence imposed and the sentence actually served).

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 mini ...[+++]mum penalty of imprisonment of 10 years; Spain provides for a penalty of imprisonment between 8 years (minimum) and 12 years (maximum)).