Translation of "augmentation de la peine " (French → English) :

We have now seen the price farmers receive for wheat go up by only 10 %, while the shelf price in supermarkets of wheat-based products has gone up by 40 %.

Urges the Council to update the guidelines on the death penalty, in order to support all activities aimed at full implementation of the General Assembly resolution, which inter alia calls upon all States that still maintain the death penalty to respect international standards that provide safeguards guaranteeing the protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty, in particular the minimum standards set out in the annex to Economic and Social Council Resolution 1984/50 of 25 May 1984; points out that the resolution provide ...[+++]s the Secretary-General with information relating to the use of capital punishment and observance of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty and seeks to progressively restrict the use of the death penalty and reduce the number of offences for which it may be imposed; further points out that the resolution ends by calling on all United Nations Member States to establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty;

Welcomes the abolition of the death penalty in Albania on 25 March 2007 (for all crimes); in Kyrgyzstan on 27 June 2007; in Rwanda on 26 July 2007; in the State of New Jersey (in the United States) on 13 December 2007; and in Uzbekistan on 1 January 2008; expresses its disquiet at the possibility that the death penalty might again start to be enforced in Guatemala; urges the Guatemalan Government, on the contrary, to genuinely commit itself to the universal moratorium on the death penalty; welcomes the decision by China to have all death penalty cases reviewed by the Supreme Court, but remains concerned that China still carries out the greatest number of executions worldwide; condemns the practising of the death penalty in Belarus, ...[+++]which runs counter to European values; condemns the Iranian regime's increasing use of capital punishment; is very concerned that the Iranian regime still sentences to death defendants under the age of 18;

It has increased over the last seven years by a mere 8%, while national budgets have increased by 23%.

First, as was seen in the section on approximation of alternative sanctions, there are considerable differences regarding their function and their legal nature: in some Member States, certain alternative sanctions are principal or substitute penalties, whereas in others, the same penalties are measures accompanying suspended prison sentences.

The second difficulty concerns the type of judgment, the type of authority giving it (court, but in certain cases a prosecutor whose decision terminates proceedings, or administrative authorities in some cases), the type of penalty or order (imprisonment, suspended or not, alternative penalty, discharge, out-of-court settlement, mediation, etc.), and the quantum of the penalty.