Übersetzung für "Mildernden umstand" in Englisch

He's arguing self-defense as a mitigating factor.

The judge accepted drunkenness as a mitigating factor.

As a mitigating circumstance led the defenders of the presence of arrested children.

As a mitigating circumstance, the Commission recognises that Alken-Maes ended the information exchange with Interbrew.

All of us in this Parliament must know that Wathelet himself cannot plead the mitigating circumstance of "Wir haben es nicht gewusst' (We didn't know anything about it).

As it is, the extenuating circumstances are that there has been a global recession, although Commissioner de Silguy very often claims that we have withstood this global recession almost 100 %.

Take it as a mitigating circumstance that there is apparently not a great deal of excitement and interest in this important subject, so I am not wasting many people's time.

In line with a principle of fairness, it is proposed to apply a specific attenuating circumstance ‘co-operation outside the Leniency notice’ for Atofina.

With reference to Ueno’s case the Commission will consider as an attenuating circumstance the non-implementation in practice of the agreed volume quota allocations.

But it is true that we must seek some mechanism according to which the fact that companies comply with the legislation in force is considered a mitigating factor.

In imposing a fine of EUR 100 000, the Commission regarded as a mitigating circumstance the fact that reasonable doubt may have existed on the part of the Association as to whether its fee scale did indeed constitute an infringement before the Commission adopted its CNSD decision in 199390.

As attenuating circumstances, the Commission noted that the sector was in a long-term crisis and that its position had deteriorated since 1991; coupled with the increasing flow of imports, these factors have resulted in capacity reductions and plant closures.

In its 1998 decision, the Commission imposed a fine of €3 564 000 on ThyssenStainless AG for the behaviour of Thyssen Stahl GmbH, taking into account the gravity of the infringement, the duration, an attenuating circumstance and a 10% reduction for the co-operation of the company under the 1996 Leniency Notice.

The Commission none the less assessed the cooperation provided by Deltafina in the investigation as an attenuating circumstance and granted it a reduction in its fine of 50%.

As an attenuating circumstance, the Commission recognised that there was legal uncertainty about the enforceability of beer ties in Luxembourg at the time the cartel agreement was signed and that this may have led the parties to doubt whether certain provisions of the cartel constituted an infringement.

As attenuating circumstances, the Commission noted that the sector was in a long-term crisis and that its position had deteriorated since 1991; coupled with the increasing flow of imports, these factors have resulted in capacity reductions and plant closures.

In the calculation of the fine the Commission took into account the gravity and duration of the infringement, the need to ensure a deterrent effect of the fine and, as a mitigating circumstance, the fact that Microsoft has cooperated with the Commission and provided information which helped the Commission to investigate the matter efficiently.

Inasmuch as negligence constitutes an attenuating circumstance for the calculation of fines imposed in the case of breach of the competition rules, the General Court should have examined whether the latter was not also relevant for calculating the amount of the fine imposed for breaking a seal.

As regards attenuating circumstances, the Commission takes into account that Topps terminated the infringement after the first Commission intervention.

In the Decision the Commission gave the applicant the benefit of a single mitigating circumstance, namely the fact that it terminated the infringement as soon as the first public authority to do so intervened. That justified a reduciion in the basic amount of 10%.

The fine was the first one imposed pursuant to that Decision. The Court rejected all the applicant's submissions, but reduced the fine by half on the ground that in the case of an infringement by a dealer, the reduced influence which he can exercise on the market situation is a circumstance mitigating the gravity of the infringement.