Traduction de «Tendance du niveau des prix » (Français → Anglais) :

Mr. Barry Zalmanowitz: The reason we think the tendency of this legislation would be to increase prices to the consumer is that the problem arises when there is price competition and the price starts going down.

Regulatory obligations should therefore be imposed with regard to regulated roaming SMS services at wholesale level, in order to establish a more reasonable relationship between wholesale charges and the underlying costs of provision, and at retail level for a transitional period to protect the interests of roaming customers until the structural measures become effective.

Regulatory obligations should therefore be imposed with regard to regulated data roaming services at wholesale level, in order to establish a more reasonable relationship between wholesale charges and the underlying costs of provision, and at retail level to protect the interests of roaming customers.

Until the structural measures have brought sufficient competition in the internal market for roaming services which would lead to reductions in wholesale costs which in turn would be passed on to consumers, the most effective and proportionate approach to regulating the level of prices for making and receiving intra-Union roaming calls is the setting at Union level of a maximum average per-minute charge at wholesale level and the limiting of charges at retail level through the Eurotariff introduced by Regulation (EC) No 717/2007, which was extended by the euro-SMS tariff provided for in Regulation (EC) No 544/2009 of the European Parliam ...[+++]ent and of the Council and should be extended by the euro-data tariff provided for in this Regulation.

Furthermore there is a tendency for Member States to impose increasingly onerous transfer pricing documentation requirements.

For now, we will have to get used to living with higher petroleum prices, which will, over the medium term, draw out more petroleum production that will tend to draw down the real price.