1 Amendments of Anneli JÄÄTTEENMÄKI related to 2009/2212(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18 a (new)
Recital 18 a (new)
18a. This regulation respects the doctrine of the separation of powers, according to which, in order to prevent power from being abused, the legislature (parliament), the executive (government) and the judiciary (the law courts) should be separate from one another. The European Parliament is not a court and therefore does not have the power to impose penalties on individual citizens.