violate the law

to violate basic personal rights

criminal conviction based on a conflicting national legislative measure

unlawful straight baselines

Royal Commission on Illegal Warfare Claims and for Return of Sequestered Property in Necessitous Cases

opposing right

in the absence of evidence to the contrary [ in the absence of proof to the contrary ]

Definition: Disorder characterized by repeated failure to resist impulses to steal objects that are not acquired for personal use or monetary gain. The objects may instead be discarded, given away, or hoarded. This behaviour is usually accompanied by an increasing sense of tension before, and a sense of gratification during and immediately after, the act.

countering evidence

[21] For example, a connecting factor exists when national legislation transposes a Union Directive in a way contrary to fundamental rights, when a public authority applies Union law in a manner contrary to fundamental rights or when a final decision of a national court applies or interprets the Union law in a way contrary to the fundamental rights.

Minimum guarantees that it will not re-offend can be obtained from a Member State where it has not been possible to put an end to an infringement as it had already been committed when the Member State decided to come into line with the Commission's argument (e.g. a public contract has already been awarded, the work has been performed, an import licence not required by Community law has been demanded and received from an importer), such as (a) recognition by the Member State concerned that an infringement has been committed; (b) commitment from the Member State to pursuing a proactive prevention and information policy (for example, by gi ...[+++]ving the necessary "instructions" to the authorities concerned, especially decentralised authorities, so that the latter correctly interpret and apply a provision of the Treaty or of secondary legislation).

Finally, the Commission believes that the systematic and indefinite confinement of asylum seekers, including minors over 14, in closed facilities in the transit zone without respecting required procedural safeguards, such as the right to appeal, leads to systematic detentions, which are in breach of the EU law on reception conditions and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU.

Bearing in mind that the majority of the crew on many non-Community flagged vessels calling at European ports are Filipino, as well as the harsh and inhuman working conditions in which many of these seafarers live, calls on Member States not to allow these vessels to be received in European ports when the working conditions on board contravene the labour rights and principles enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; urges, likewise, non-Community flagged vessels to guarantee their crews’ working conditions in accordance with international legislation and the rules laid down by the ILO and the IMO.