Customs Sanctions: The Difficult Relationship between International Harmonisation and Nation Peculiarities through the Lens of the Proportionality Principle Cover Image

Customs Sanctions: The Difficult Relationship between International Harmonisation and Nation Peculiarities through the Lens of the Proportionality Principle
Customs Sanctions: The Difficult Relationship between International Harmonisation and Nation Peculiarities through the Lens of the Proportionality Principle

Author(s): Sara Armella
Subject(s): International Law, International relations/trade, Law on Economics, Fiscal Politics / Budgeting, Penal Policy
Published by: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
Keywords: international trade; customs law; criminal sanctions; administrative sanctions; Court of Justice of the EU; principle of proportionality;

Summary/Abstract: In contrast to many other areas of customs law, customs infringements are subject to few international and EU coordinating rules. Nevertheless, the EU Court of Justice has been able to establish general principles capable of guiding the legislators and jurisprudence of each Member State, as witnessed by the Italian case, in which the application of the European principle of proportionality has led to a restrictive interpretation of the domestic customs sanctions regulations.

  • Issue Year: 13/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 1-11
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English