Fining them or jailing them was too much already.

The policy is enforced at the provincial level through fines.

Judge in the First Instance Court (Penalty) Damascus

Literally meaning customary fines which can include custom materials such as mats, kava, chicken, pigs.

Fines against cartels are growing in severity across countries.

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.

(g) The handling of confiscated property the administration of fines and the receiving and processing of security and bail payments

The difference is that administrative offenses are punished with fines, at most, not prison terms.

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.

Fines are allotted, and at the end of the year, the money collected is given to charity.

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

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

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

In addition, the State collects a penalty fee if the Herdsmen's Committee exceeds its quota of reindeer per herd on account of failure to sell.

Damages awarded by chiefs including the practice of kastom faen doubly discriminates against women who are victims in physical and sexual assaults.

When charges are not withdrawn, customary fines sometimes influence the prison sentence as the case below shows.

Section 545 of the Criminal Procedure Code allows the court to provide compensation to victim of a crime from the fine imposed on the perpetrator of the crime.

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.

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.

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.

In order to prevent sinners from getting caught in a debt trap, the fines could take the form of covered bonds collateralized with privatizable state assets.

Small explosive charges (equivalent to a few 100 grams of TNT with a timed detonator), which would create the seismic signals used to determine the internal structure of the asteroid.

In some areas, notably in North America and Europe, they have reached very high levels indeed, sometimes exceeding billions of US dollars or euros.

The law also provides for compensation. Under Section 545 of the Pakistan Criminal Procedure Code the court compensates the victim by ordering that payments from the fines taken from criminals be given to them.

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. Stricter traffic laws and regulations are also being enforced on our roads.

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.

Submitting an incomplete tax return, for example, would be tax evasion and is handled through administrative measures, including severe fines if necessary.

As the case, in 2003, was the first in which a party had confessed, the fines assessed on the companies were significantly reduced so as to encourage future cartel operators to cooperate.

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.

(a) The import of goods into the Kingdom is subject to no condition other than the requirement for an importer's identification card to be produced when the goods are cleared through customs and for duty to be paid in accordance with the relevant regulations

Automatic fines would punish any country whose debt to GDP ratio exceeds the Maastricht Treaty s 60 cap or whose budget deficit exceeds the 3 of GDP limit.

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.

Not providing insurance and paying the fine is a particularly attractive option for a firm if its employees have incomes that entitle them to the government subsidies (which are now available to anyone whose income is below four times the poverty level).

The fines could be as high as the interest premium would be in the absence of help, thereby ensuring that the benefit of enhanced stability under the euro accrues to all eurozone countries, rather than to the profligate members themselves.

Late pick ups went up every week for the next four weeks until they topped out at triple the pre fine average, and then they fluctuated at between double and triple the pre fine average for the life of the fine.

One characteristic of Swiss law is that it distinguishes between tax evasion and tax fraud. Submitting an incomplete tax return, for example, would be tax evasion and is handled through administrative measures, including severe fines if necessary.

But if production entails environmental damage for which companies do not pay, incentives are distorted companies may turn a profit, but they function inefficiently in economic terms. So the state corrects firms incentives by levying fines or issuing bans.

The Morgan Stanley analysis suggests that we can expect another 70 billion in fines and litigation costs over the next two years from already identified errors and omissions. And new episodes could emerge two years ago, no one anticipated the fallout from the manipulation of the foreign exchange markets.