Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on improving securities settlement in the European Union and on central securities depositories and amending Directives 98/26/EC and 2014/65/EU and Regulation (EU) No 236/2012 (Text with EEA relevance)
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Article 64Effective application of sanctions
Member States shall ensure that, when determining the type and level of administrative sanctions or other measures, the competent authorities take into account all relevant circumstances, including, where appropriate:
(a)
the gravity and the duration of the infringement;
(b)
the degree of responsibility of the person responsible for the infringement;
(c)
the financial strength of the person responsible for the infringement, for example as indicated by the total turnover of the responsible legal person or the annual income of the responsible natural person;
(d)
the importance of the profits gained, losses avoided by the person responsible for the infringement or the losses for third parties derived from the infringement, insofar as they can be determined;
(e)
the level of cooperation of the person responsible for the infringement with the competent authority, without prejudice to the need to ensure disgorgement of profits gained or losses avoided by that person;
(f)
previous infringements by the person responsible for the infringement.
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