This Friday, IL asked the Employment Conditions Authority, ASAE and the police to provide the number, total amount of fines and fines imposed in 2022, and their distribution by type of violation.
Speaking to the Lusa agency, IL MP Carlos Guimarães Pinto explained the party’s goal with three requests he submitted this Friday to the Assembly of the Republic, which are addressed to ministries under the tutelage of various bodies.
“What we are asking is a list, per offense, with the total number of fines and the value of those fines and fines that apply to people so that we can understand exactly where those 500 million euros of fines and fines that are in budget. states,” he said.
Thus, liberals want to know “which offenses are the most punished and which are most often repeated,” continued Carlos Guimarães Pinto, believing that if a violation is repeated very often, “even if it brings a lot of revenue to the state”, it is necessary to “find other mechanisms” to avoid this.
“We want to know which violations generate the most fines and fines in the country,” he summed up, pointing to requests dating back to 2022.
For an IL deputy, since fines should not be the goal, it is necessary to understand whether they are exaggerated in some cases, in order to “identify them in order to eliminate them or reduce the amount of a fine or a fine, if this is the case.”
“It is very common for small businesses to complain about being caught with a few minor infractions, which then result in large fines. We are trying to pinpoint which violations generate the most revenue in the form of fines and fines to understand if they are unreasonable, that they exist, if the amount of the fine is also justified,” he explained.
Three requests are addressed to the Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Protection for data on sanctions applied by the Working Conditions Authority (ACT), the Ministry of the Interior in relation to GNR and PSP and the Ministry of Economy. March to determine fines imposed by the Food and Economic Security Administration (ASAE).
These texts mention that “one of the sources of public funding that greatly affects the Portuguese are fines”, given that “public information is a right of citizens and that transparency and accountability are fundamental values of democracy”.
Thus, for each of the cases, the IL asks four specific questions: the total number of fines and additional sanctions applied, the total amount of fines and additional sanctions applied, the distribution of the number of fines and additional sanctions by type of offense. (and the corresponding severity), as well as the distribution of fines and additional sanctions by type of offense (and the corresponding severity).
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Source: CM Jornal
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