. Section 9 (179/2010) In applying community State of the – Consideration of a sentence imposed in a foreign state sections 6 and 7, also an unconditional sentence of imprisonment or service or a comparable punishment imposed in another Member European Union or in Iceland or Norway. Chapter 8 - Statute of limitations Section 1 – Time-barring of the right to bring charges (297/2003) (1) The right to bring charges for an offence for which the most severe sentence is life imprisonment does not become time-barred. (212/2008) (2) The right to bring charges is time-barred if charges have not been brought (1) within twenty years, if the most severe penalty provided for the offence is fixed-term imprisonment for over eight years, (2) within ten years, if the most severe penalty is imprisonment for more than two years and at most eight years, (3) within five years, if the most severe penalty is imprisonment for over a year and at most two years, and (4) within two years, if the most severe penalty is imprisonment for at most a year, or a fine or a summary penal fee. (755/2010) [paragraph 4 has been amended by the Act of 755/2010, which shall enter into force on a date to be set by an Act. The earlier wording is as follows:] (4) within two years, if the most severe penalty is imprisonment for at most a year, or a fine. (3) The most severe penalty refers to the maximum penalty provided for the offence in the applicable provision. (4) The minimum period during which the right to bring charges for offences in office becomes time-barred, however, is five years. The minimum period during which the right to bring charges for impairment of the environment, an environmental offence and a building protection offence becomes time-barred is ten years. The right to bring charges for impairment of the environment, aggravated impairment of the environment, an environmental infraction and negligent impairment of the environment by a foreign vessel in the Finnish economic zone referred to in Chapter 13, section 3 of the Maritime Environmental Protection Act, becomes time-barred in three years. The minimum period during which the right to bring charges for a fishing offence committed from a foreign vessel in the Finnish economic zone becomes time-barred is three years. (1680/2009) (5) The right to bring charges for sexual abuse of a child and aggravated sexual abuse of a child becomes time-barred at the earliest when the complainant reaches the age of twenty-eight years. The same applies to rape, aggravated rape, coercion into sexual intercourse, coercion into a sexual act, sexual abuse, pan-