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In earlier proposals, a new 5<sup>th<\/sup> sanction level was proposed for the most severe crimes. However, this 5<sup>th<\/sup> level has now disappeared.<\/li>\n<li>The fines for sanction level 3 are doubled and the maximum fines for level 4 are increased. The sanction scheme will look as follows (including the legal multiplication):\n<ul>\n<li>Level 1: admin. fine: 80-800 euro<\/li>\n<li>Level 2: admin. fine: 200-2000 euro; penal fine: 400-4000 euro<\/li>\n<li>Level 3: admin. fine: 800-8000 euro; penal fine: 1600 \u2013 16000 euro<\/li>\n<li>Level 4: admin. fine: 2400 \u2013 28000 euro; penal fine: 4800 \u2013 56000 euro; prison sentence of 6 months to 6 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>A new sanction is introduced: the prohibition to participate in public tenders or to receive public concessions.<\/li>\n<li>The term for repeat crimes will be increased from 1 year to 3 years. A conviction for a similar crime within 3 years will cause the fines to double (but not the prison sentence).<\/li>\n<li>The reform introduces two aggravating circumstances which the court needs to take into account when determining the sanction (a.k.a. which should lead to a more severe sanction):\n<ul>\n<li>When a crime punished with a sanction of level 4 is committed on purpose;<\/li>\n<li>In case of obstruction of supervision of the social inspection services by means of threats or violence towards the person of the social inspector.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Source: Legislative proposal to supplement and amend the Social Penal Code and several provisions of Social Penal Code, no. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dekamer.be\/kvvcr\/showpage.cfm?section=\/none&amp;leftmenu=no&amp;language=nl&amp;cfm=\/site\/wwwcfm\/flwb\/flwbn.cfm?lang=N&amp;legislat=55&amp;dossierID=3914\">55K3914.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Penal Code of 2010 has been modified many times during the last decade, but after a major evaluation in 2017 by the Advisory Council of Social Penal Law and a first draft legislative project of the beginning of 2023, a legal proposal to reform the code has been introduced in Parliament and is set to be approved before the deadline of 8 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-partnerblog"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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