In order for such a step to be relevant in a case such as this one, the Commission should ascertain (i) whether a court would censure the Member State for having suspended the social plan in question without consulting the undertaking’s management (ii) the amount which the Member State could have been ordered to pay in that eventuality and (iii) the degree of probability of that eventuality (176).

whereas sport is intended for all citizens, regardless of gender, race, age, disability, religion, nationality, sexual orientation and social or economic background; whereas sport can be a force for social inclusion and integration, and whereas the Parliament and Commission have repeatedly condemned all displays of violence, racism and xenophobia,

1. This Framework Decision seeks to facilitate the social re-integration of sentenced persons, to improve the protection of victims and society and to facilitate the application of appropriate suspended sentences, alternative sanctions and conditional sentences in the case of offenders who are not resident in the sentencing State.

According to the Convention, the sentencing State may request another Contracting State to enforce a sentence only if one or more of the conditions set out in Article 5 are fulfilled, namely: (a) if the sentenced person is ordinarily resident in the other State; (b) if the enforcement of the sentence in the other State is likely to improve the prospects for the social rehabilitation of the sentenced person; (c) if, in the case of a sentence involving deprivation of liberty, the sentence could be enforced following the enforcement of another sentence involving deprivation of liberty which the sentenced person is undergoing or is to unde ...[+++]rgo in the other State; (d) if the other State is the State of origin of the sentenced person and has declared itself willing to accept responsibility for the enforcement of that sentence; or (e) if it considers that it cannot itself enforce the sentence, even by having recourse to extradition, and that the other State can. In addition, the judgment handed down in the requesting State must be final and enforceable and the offence in respect of which the sentence has been passed must also constitute an offence under the law of the requested State ("double criminality" requirement [76]).

[50] 1) Suspension of driving licence; 2) ban on driving certain types of vehicle; 3) cancellation of driving licence; 4) confiscation of one or more vehicles belonging to the offender; 5) immobilisation of one or more vehicles belonging to the offender; 6) ban on possessing or carrying a weapon for which a licence is required for a period of up to five years; 7) confiscation of one or more weapons belonging to the offender or freely available to him; 8) withdrawal of a hunting licence; 9) ban on drawing cheques; 10) confiscation of any object that was used in or intended for use in committing the offence or was the product of the offence; 11) ban on exercising any professional or social ...[+++] activity where the facilities afforded by such an activity were knowingly used to prepare or commit the offence.

Owing to differences in culture, language, customs, religion and social conditions, foreign prisoners are in a much more difficult position than national ones.