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

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

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

Eight of them paid fines exceeding 50,000.

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

Administrative fines against businesses are the most common.

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

Fines against cartels are growing in severity across countries.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Greek authorities have tightened control over free camping and are already imposing serious fines on anyone who is caught resting in a place not intended for the purpose.

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.

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

There can, of course, be other incentives to support good behavior, such as fines and deposits (for bicycles borrowed for too long or not returned, for example). But punitive measures can easily lead to disputes and inefficiency.

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

2.5.c Furthermore, article 23, paragraph (a), of the Act lists the penalties for infringements of the Act's provisions which may take the form of fines or imprisonment. The paragraph reads as follows

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

The fine is indeed much higher than those levied before. Hefty fines for currency trading violations are not new (HSBC, for example, was hit with a 1.9 billion fine in 2012) but a fine close to 10 billion is.

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.

(j) To refrain from the use of imprisonment or the imposition of fines for offences relating to the media, which are disproportionate to the gravity of the offence and which violate international human rights law

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Furthermore, legal persons can, depending on the circumstances, be held liable in accordance with the rules on corporate fines in Chapter 36, Section 7 of the Penal Code.

Furthermore, legal persons can, depending on the circumstances, be held liable in accordance with the rules on corporate fines in Chapter 36, Section 7 of the Penal Code.

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.

While this does not necessarily mean that none were imposed, it is probably safe to say that in most of these cases the fines were small or nonexistent.