Eight of them paid fines exceeding 50,000.

I've paid parking fines a number of times myself.

Some case descriptions made no mention of fines or sanctions.

Sanctions can take several forms, including administrative fines against businesses and natural persons criminal sanctions, including fines and imprisonment and recovery of compensatory damages by victims of a cartel.

Fines totalling CZK 313,000,000 (EUR 10,000,000) were imposed.

Administrative fines against businesses are the most common.

Fines against cartels are growing in severity across countries.

The provisions foresee sanctions such as fines and dissolution, the fines measured in days, ranging from a minimum of 100 to a maximum of 1000, with an amount between 5 and 5000 Euros per day.

In 2004, some of the largest fines were paid by the companies listed below

The taxi operators voluntarily abandoned the agreement, and no fines were assessed.

Non compensation of salary during childbirth leave is a serious offence and is subject to fines.

Irresponsible road users in Singapore face fines, the suspension of driving privileges and even jail terms.

The Office for Standardisation, Metrology and Testing is also authorised to impose fines.

The Division conducted 477 investigations involving unlawful advertisement and levied 228 administrative fines.

The competition law may not provide for sufficiently large fines or other sanctions.

Executive fines shall not be imposed, nor cruel, degrading or inhuman punishment inflicted.

The fines assessed just for violating the embargo against Cuba amounted to 1,262,000.

In a few cases, very large fines as high as EUR 96,000,000 were reported.

Civil and criminal penalties, including significant fines and imprisonment, can be imposed for breaches of the WMD Act.

In 2004, OFAC imposed fines on 316 United States citizens and residents for violation of several of the embargo's provisions.

Fines totalling SKK 2,053,300 (EUR 51,332) were imposed on the 48 breeders who supported the agreement.

In particular, in cartel cases they may be reluctant to uphold large fines assessed by the competition agency.

It is reported that civilians refusing to acquiesce to the demands of the Government forces are subjected to fines and physical punishment.

As in the case of undeclared cross border cash transactions, penalties ranged from fines and or seizure and confiscation of the instruments to imprisonment.

If sanctions, which are usually in the form of fines, are not significant, they become merely a cost of doing business for the cartel.

Violations of regulations relating to the import regime are subject to penalties in the form of fines, cancellation of licenses or, in serious cases, also imprisonment.

The Bill also innovates prohibiting the imposition of penalties restrictive of right to monetary contributions, such as the obligation of giving out basic food baskets, and fines.

Therefore, Kemira, which reported itself to the authority, will be exempt from paying any fines, which would have been above 1billionHUF.

If they face personal sanctions, whether imprisonment (in a minority of countries) or large fines, they have additional reasons not to participate in cartel activity.

Assessment of risk

It has been prepared by the Co chairs of the Assessment Panels on the basis of their reports Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion 2002 , Environmental Effects of Ozone Depletion 2002 Assessment and 2002 Assessment Report of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel , pursuant to Article 6 of the Montreal Protocol.

It has been prepared by the Co chairs of the Assessment Panels on the basis of their reports Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion 2002 , Environmental Effects of Ozone Depletion 2002 Assessment and 2002 Assessment Report of the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel , pursuant to Article 6 of the Montreal Protocol.

Secondly, with regard to enforcement, we are instituting strict penalties for violators of traffic laws. They include fines, the suspension or revocation of driver's licenses and imprisonment.

The respondents were fined a total of US 107 million, more than three times the highest fines assessed by the Argentine authority in any previous case.

In the first four months of 2005, 307 fines had already been imposed, or nearly half the number as in the previous year as a whole.

The European Community is also studying the possibility of using the proceeds of anti trust fines levied by the Commission as an additional contribution to the development budget.

The retail businesses were each fined 10 per cent of one year's pretax revenue individual managers were fined 10 per cent of the fines imposed on their businesses.

Penalties for failure to declare transborder cash transactions ranged from fines and or seizure or confiscation of all or part of the value of the undisclosed sum to imprisonment.

Overall assessment of implementation

General assessment of investigation

A similar case involving bid rigging in tenders for the construction of waste management systems was resolved in the same way, with voluntary confessions and reduced fines.

Because of this, citizen assessment and governmental transparency are increasingly considered primary components of effective assessment activities.

The first phase of the Global Marine Assessment the so called assessment of assessments will be important.

Third, such fines are, in any case, paid by the companies shareholders, not by their executives or board members (all of whom carry insurance). In the rare cases in which fines have been levied on individuals, either their insurance policies picked up most of the bill, or the penalties were trivial relative to the cash compensation that they received while committing their crimes or both.

In addition, the UNEP Division of Early Warning and Assessment is involved in other global environmental assessment activities, such as the Global International Waters Assessment and the Global Marine Assessment, for which UNEP provides leadership and coordination, and the Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, in which UNEP is a key partner.