Traduction de «Facturation réelle à ce jour » (Français → Anglais) :

shall ensure that final customers are offered the option of electronic billing information and bills and that they receive, on request, a clear and understandable explanation of how their bill was derived, especially where bills are not based on actual consumption.

In order to enable final customers to regulate their own energy consumption, billing should take place on the basis of actual consumption at least once a year, and billing information should be made available at least quarterly, on request or where the consumers have opted to receive electronic billing or else twice yearly.

2. In addition to the obligations resulting from Directive 2009/72/EC and Directive 2009/73/EC with regard to billing, Member States shall ensure, not later than 1 January 2015, that billing is accurate and based on actual consumption, for all the sectors covered by the present Directive, including energy distributors, distribution system operators and retail energy sales companies, in accordance with the minimum frequency set out in Annex VI(2.1).

8. Points out that in some Member States consumers have hitherto been unable to choose electricity suppliers freely and pay a competitive and fair price for electricity; points out that comprehensive advice and training should be provided to consumers to ensure their active participation, and that consumer information campaigns will be needed with a view to benefiting from the dissemination of smart energy systems; calls on the Commission and the Member States to stimulate and enable the participation of consumers in the realisation of smart energy systems, in particular by devising accessible, efficient and transparent funding schemes, and to promote smart meters which provide consumers with a clear view of their energy consumption; emp ...[+++]hasises that gas and electricity prices in Europe need to be reasonable, transparent and easily comparable; stresses the need to promote transparent and accurate billing based on actual consumption, a standard format for invoices and the dissemination of clear, effective and comprehensive price comparison tools, as well as easy and fast supplier switching;

The amounts which appear on the invoice may be expressed in any currency, provided that the amount of VAT payable or to be credited is expressed in the national currency of the Member State in which the supply of goods or services takes place, using the exchange rate published by the European Central Bank for the day on which the tax becomes chargeable, or, if there is no publication on that day, the previous day of publication.

The amounts which appear on the invoice may be expressed in any currency, provided that the amount of VAT payable or to be credited is expressed in the national currency of the Member State in which the supply of goods or services takes place, using the exchange rate published by the European Central Bank for the day on which the tax becomes chargeable, or, if there is no publication on that day, the previous day of publication .