Traduction de «conception à coût donné » (Français → Anglais) :

The Chair: If I may be permitted a comment here, when it comes to economics and the environment, the introduction of the concept of costs in reports and review would, first, be an added burden to the administration, and not a minor one, and second, would create, politically, the impression that there are only costs—and no benefits—to be derived.

While a cost-benefit analysis provides an indication of the total economic welfare effects by comparing all costs and benefits, a cost-effectiveness assessment focuses on achieving a given objective in the most cost-effective way, requiring a comparison of only the costs.

In doing so, the NRA should take into account in the proportionality assessment, inter alia, the following considerations: (i) incremental costs of compliance with EoI are likely to be low when new systems are being designed; (ii) the potentially linked non-imposition of regulated wholesale access prices on NGA networks as recommended in points 48 and 49; (iii) the potentially positive effect the application of EoI might have on innovation and competition; (iv) any voluntary commitment by the SMP operator to provide wholesale inputs to access seekers on an EoI basis, as long as such a voluntary offer meets the conditions set out in th ...[+++]is Recommendation; and (v) the number and size of the SMP operator(s).

The Institut belge des services postaux et des telecommunications (IBPT), the national regulatory authority for these sectors in Belgium, fixed the set-up cost per mobile number successfully transferred from one operator to another on the basis of ‘the theoretical costs of an efficient mobile operator .

There is a concept in economics called sunk cost.

There is a concept that I also learned in economics called sunk cost.