AI Summary of Article 12 Penalties
Member States shall establish penalties for infringements under this Title, including at least administrative fines, which must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. For repeated reporting of systematic manifest errors by entities subject to Article 9, competent authorities shall impose administrative penalties or periodic payments, or request courts to do so. Member States must ensure public disclosure of penalties for infringements of Articles 4, 5 and 7-11 unless disclosure would seriously jeopardise markets or cause disproportionate damage; disclosures must exclude personal data under Directive 95/46/EC. Rules must be notified to the Commission by 17 February 2013 and amendments without delay. Infringement does not affect validity, enforceability or compensation rights under OTC derivative contracts. If administrative penalties are unavailable domestically, penalties may be initiated by authorities and imposed by courts with equivalent remedies; such provisions must be notified by 24 December 2024.
A periodic penalty payment shall not exceed 1% of average daily turnover for the preceding business year, be payable daily during an ongoing infringement until compliance and may be imposed for a maximum of six months from the decision date. ESMA, with EBA, EIOPA and the ESRB, shall draft regulatory technical standards to specify 'systematic manifest errors' and submit them to the Commission by 25 December 2025; the Commission is delegated power to adopt those standards under Regulation (EU) No 1095/2010.
Article 12 Penalties
1. Member States shall lay down the rules on penalties applicable to infringements of the rules under this Title and shall take all measures necessary to ensure that they are implemented. Those penalties shall include at least administrative fines. The penalties provided for shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive.
1a. Without prejudice to paragraph 1 of this Article and to the right of Member States to provide for and impose criminal penalties, the competent authority shall, by decision, impose administrative penalties or periodic penalty payments, or request competent judicial authorities to impose penalties or periodic penalty payments, on the entities subject to the reporting obligation pursuant to Article 9 where the details reported repeatedly contain systematic manifest errors.
The periodic penalty payment referred to in the first subparagraph shall not exceed a maximum of 1 % of the average daily turnover for the preceding business year which, in the case of an ongoing infringement, the entity shall be obliged to pay for every day that the infringement continues, until compliance with the obligation is established or restored. The periodic penalty payment may be imposed for a maximum period of six months from the date set out in the decision of the competent authority requiring the termination of an infringement and imposing the periodic penalty payment.