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The plaintiff further relies on case-law of the European Court of Human Rights on the interpretation of Article 6 of the ECHR to the effect that litigants are to be summoned to court hearings in such a way not only so as to have knowledge of the date and place of hearing, but also to have enough time to prepare a case and attend a court hearing, and that a formal dispatch of a notification letter without any confidence that it will reach the applicant in good time cannot be considered to be proper notification Further, the plaintiff refers to Kapetanios and Others v. Greece to the effect that the European Court of Human Rights has found that ordering the imposition of administrative fines on individuals accused of smuggling who had been acquitted of a crim ...[+++]inal offence is a violation of Article 6(2) of the ECHR on the presumption of innocence and of Article 4 of Protocol No 7 on the right not to be tried or punished twice. Finally, the plaintiff queries whether, in the light of the ruling in Kapetanios and Others v. Greece, a fine of the dimensions in issue is suitable for categorisation as civil in nature, and is rather criminal.

In its resolution on the Commission annual reports it takes the view that sex-disaggregated statistics and gender indicators are "an essential tool for assessing progress towards equality goals and for promoting gender mainstreaming by showing the differential impact on women and men of all policies, particularly in fields previously thought to be gender neutral". Parliament also considers it essential to identify comparable indicators, analysis procedures and information to facilitate a correct assessment covering all aspects related to gender equality.

(1) provide greater support to partners engaged in building deep democracy – the kind that lasts because the right to vote is accompanied by rights to exercise free speech, form competing political parties, receive impartial justice from independent judges, security from accountable police and army forces, access to a competent and non-corrupt civil service — and other civil and human rights that many Europeans take for granted, such as the freedom of thought, conscience and religion.

The Commission's key legal concern identified in this law relates to the discrimination on the basis of gender due to the introduction of a different retirement age for female judges (60 years) and male judges (65 years).