Traduction de «être condamné à des dommages-intérêts » (Français → Anglais) :

In this context, ‘contribution’ refers to the situation where the settling infringer was not a defendant in the action for damages, but is asked by co-infringers who were ordered to pay damages to contribute under the rules of joint and several liability.

The United States only allows damages and treble damages. We allow damages, and punitive damages—that would be the equivalent of the treble—but we also allow accounting of profits, which is something that does not exist in the U.S. system.

order the defendant, pursuant to the form of order applied for under paragraph 1 of Section A.4 of his written submission of 21 February 2011 in Case F-44/05 RENV, the reasoning being stated in paragraphs 78 to 85 of that written submission, to pay damages to the applicant of at least EUR 2 500 on account of the excessive duration of the proceedings, in accordance with Article 6 ECHR;

In those circumstances, the judgment of the Court of Appeal of Rouen confirmed the judgment of the Evreux labour court and thus ordered the company Aspocomp Group Oyj, which had 99 % control of the management of its subsidiary, to pay: (i) the employees affected by the company-level agreement, the entire compensation and additional payments provided for in that agreement alone, as well as damages for redundancy without actual and serious basis and (ii) the employees laid off under the voluntary liquidation of Aspocomp equivalent payments given that, by not meeting the commitments made, the parent company had acted unfairly and in a culpa ...[+++]bly thoughtless manner.

The US 1916 Anti-Dumping Act provides for damages to the complainant equivalent to three times the damage suffered, fines up to US $ 5,000 or imprisonment up to one year.

Even if non-compliance can be demonstrated and damage to human health or environment has occurred, compensations awarded by courts of EU Member States often have a limited deterrent effect.