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.

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

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.

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

Regulatory issues

Regulatory action

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.

Other regulatory controls

Fourth, regulatory structures will need to be rebuilt, and this will require a global effort. Absent international coordination, the opportunities for destructive regulatory competition will defeat regulatory reform.

China Insurance Regulatory Commission

China Securities Regulatory Commission

Legal and regulatory environment3

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.

The Harm of Regulatory Disharmony

Franchising poses particular regulatory challenges.

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

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

In the sixth preambular paragraph, the words national and legal regulatory infrastructure should be replaced by national, legal and regulatory infrastructure .

China Securities Regulatory Commission 2008 04 16

Policy, Regulatory Frameworks and Equitable Benefit Sharing

First, there are legislative and regulatory measures.

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

(a) In the sixth preambular paragraph, the words national and legal regulatory infrastructure were replaced by the words national legal and regulatory infrastructure

It must be recognized that regulatory reform entails adjustment costs and necessitates regulatory capacity and institution building, technical assistance and capacity building in this regard.

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.

And it has no rules to its regulatory system.

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.

Article 23 The securities firm should set up responsible person for regulatory compliance to audit, supervise or check legal and regulatory compliance of management behavior of securities firm.

The problems were regulatory, legal, political, institutional, financial and educational.