Translation of "sanctions appliquées aux infractions " (French → English) :

penalties applicable in case of breach | penalties in case of breach

Member States shall lay down the rules on penalties applicable to infringements of national provisions adopted pursuant to this Directive and shall take all measures necessary to ensure that they are implemented. The penalties provided for must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. [Member States shall notify those provisions to the Commission [by …][without delay][…] and shall notify it [without delay] of any subsequent amendment affecting them].

Committee of Experts on the Implementation of the European Rules on Community Sanctions and Measures

12. Stresses that labour inspections are effective also if they are made without notice, are repeated and are targeted randomly; points out that for penalties to be effective they must be set so as to ensure that employers cannot gain from circumventing existing wage agreements or laws and regulations;

Article 50(1) of Regulation No 1013/2006, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 669/2008, according to which the penalties applied by the Member States for infringement of the provisions of that regulation must be proportionate, must be interpreted as meaning that the imposition of a fine penalising the illegal shipment of waste, such as that referred to in Annex IV to that regulation, in the country of transit at a border crossing point which differs from that provided in the notification document which had been consented to by the competent authorities, of which the basic amount is the same as the fine imposed for a breach of the requiremen ...[+++]t to obtain consent and to give prior notification in writing, is to be considered to be proportionate only if the circumstances of the infringement make it possible to find that they involve equally serious infringements.

9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to do their utmost to ensure that the objectives set out in Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 are fulfilled more effectively; reiterates that the penalties for infringement by manufactures of the provisions of the above Regulation, such as use of defeat devices, should be first and foremost dissuasive and effective;

Those sanctions shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive and shall reflect the sanctions for corresponding infringements in relation to the work of committees of inquiry in the national parliaments.