Translation of "Strafrechtliche bestimmungen" in English

Stringent, harmonised criminal legislation on traffickers in human beings is necessary.

However, the amendment does not emphasise the importance of criminal law provisions in dealing with such behaviour.

A number of the criminal law provisions of Member States are still at an initial stage of harmonisation.

Criminal law provisions and their implementation seem to differ among Member States.

So far, only the TRIPS Agreement makes provision for minimum criminal penalties.

Title V and VI define penal provisions and sanctions and transitional and miscellaneous provisions.

Adequate criminal law measures form an important tool for combating racism and xenophobia.

The president is particularly protected by special criminal law provisions.

Accordingly, criminal-law provisions may be introduced by way of regulations, as an annex to Community-law arrangements.

Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offence in the United States of America ("United States ").

This applies in particular to contents that infringe youth media protection law and/or criminal law provisions.

Users shall comply with existing copyrights and property rights of third parties as well as any criminal provisions and regulations governing youth protection.

Even if 10 EU Member States have criminal law provisions specific for FGM, prosecutions are very rare.

Under the Treaty of Lisbon the EU can introduce criminal law provisions, and the Treaty makes particular reference to human trafficking and to the sexual exploitation of children and women.

Thirdly, it is therefore crucial that this directive should not be about specific provisions concerning criminal law, but that criminal law is used to make environmental policy effective.

The States of the European Union have criminal law procedures that are thoroughly appropriate for dealing with the challenges of racist and intolerant patterns of behaviour.

The Council’s desire to prevent the European Commission’s initiative from containing, for example, criminal law provisions, has created such confusion between civil sanctions, administrative procedures and administrative sanctions, that I cannot imagine what the Member States are going to do when it comes to applying it.

This is the very reason why we have insisted on legislation with regard to criminal law if we want to enforce environmental policy effectively.

On the coasts of southern Italy, the flow of illegal immigrants ferried to the country by sea continues, despite the adoption of new, more stringent criminal legislation against traffickers, precisely because there has been no fall in the support or complicity traffickers enjoy in countries such as Albania or Turkey.

Another important step will be the Commission's adoption of a proposal for a directive on environmental protection by means of criminal legislation.

The EESC notes the objective of the proposed Directive on the protection of the environment through criminal law.

As this Directive provides for minimum rules concerning the definition of criminal offences and sanctions in the area of money laundering, Member States are free to adopt or maintain more stringent criminal law rules in that area.

Under current Community legislation, there is no harmonisation of the penalties for these phenomena under the third pillar; nor do all Member States have systems of penal sanctions in place.

The provisions on transfers of funds in relation to which information on the payer or the payee is missing or incomplete apply without prejudice to any obligations on payment service providers and intermediary payment service providers to suspend and/or reject transfers of funds which breach a provision of civil, administrative or criminal law.

All Member States apart from IE and UK have also notified criminal-law rules which specifically extend their jurisdiction to conduct committed by one of (their) nationals.