Traduction de «Délégation de paiement différé » (Français → Anglais) :

Most goods and services are supplied within the internal market by economic operators to other economic operators and to public authorities on a deferred payment basis whereby the supplier gives its client time to pay the invoice, as agreed between parties, as set out in the supplier’s invoice or as laid down by law.

This overall legal inconsistency will increase once the Payment Services Directive provisions have been implemented (by November 2009), since some of the requirements for the prudential regime of payment institutions differ widely from those applicable today to electronic money institutions (e.g. electronic money institutions are currently subject to the principle of exclusivity of activities whereas payment institutions will not be).

Deferred payment of capital, reserves and provisions of the ECB

(3b)‘open payment system’ means a payment system where the payer and the payee generally have different payment service providers, both operating within the same payment system, or, in the case of debit and credit card and similar transactions, a payment system where the payer and payee generally have different payment service providers operating within the payment system which are directly contractually linked with other providers in the system and not just with a central licensing party, and which may, in turn, be linked to other providers under the payment system’s rules through an agreement with a provider operating in the payment system;

(3d) “open payment system” means a payment system in which the payer and the payee generally have different payment service providers, both operating within the same payment system, provided that any proprietary payment system which has licensed its intellectual property for use by third parties or agents shall not constitute an open payment system by virtue of such licensing activity;

I also wish to highlight the drift towards federalism, which was defeated in the no vote on the draft EU Treaty, but to which the resolution gives succour, in its reference to the ‘prospect of acquiring a joint European seat on the Security Council’ and the ‘merging’ of cabinets and delegations from different countries into a ‘common EU external delegation’.