Erzsébet Czopyk Jul 10, 2016:

I had some rules on my former workplace. For a breach of "clean desk policy" (leaving documents unattended on the desk, forgetting to turn off the Pc in the lunchtime etc. the employee might be charged up to -10% of the salary. We considered this not a "charge" but a real "punishment". :( I know I am expressing myself badly, sorry

Tony M Jul 10, 2016:

@ Erzsébet I think it can only be your first suggestion; the syntax really doesn't lend itself to the second one, since 'charging' someone as a way of punishment is not a very plausible scenario in the given context; you might 'charge' someone if they steal the towels from their hotel room, but even that isn't really 'punishment', just compensation.

It isn't clear from the limited context what the involvement of 'privacy' is here — I had not instinctively read it as 'sanctioning s/o for breaching privacy', but rather 'charging them for the privilege of having a privacy option' — but now you point it out, either is feasible.

Erzsébet Czopyk Jul 10, 2016:

confusing - the bone of the sentence The Director ****responsible for **** determining the reasonability of charging the individual.

(IF: assessing related costs based on compliance with relevant Privacy legislation)

then my question is:

charging in the meaning that a person shall pay for something
OR
charging in the meaning of punishing him/her with a particular fee?

If 1: more context please otherwise we are going to deep forest
If 2: do they punish him beacuse of breach of particular privacy rules?

Tony M Jul 10, 2016:

@ Asker My understanding of the s/t would be that this means 'whether or not it is reasonable to expect the individual to have to pay for these related costs' — hence why they have used this rather unusual word! Obviously, it is not talking about how 'reasonable' the actual costs to be charged are.

In this sense, I see it as meaning 'fair', 'just', 'justifiable', etc. — and I suspect it might be better to rephrase in FR.

In a legal context, we might talk about 'reasonable grounds for divorce', which to my mind comes closest to the sense required here: 'des motifs valables de divorcer'

So perhaps what we need here is something more like: 'la validité / légitimité de la facturation...'?