Traduction de «service de l'orientation carte de référence » (Français → Anglais) :

Scheme rules applied by payment card schemes and practices applied by payment service providers tend to keep merchants and consumers ignorant about fee differences and reduce market transparency, for instance by ‘blending’ fees or prohibiting merchants from choosing a cheaper card brand on co-badged cards or steering consumers to the use of such cheaper cards.

In view of the benefits of pricing flexibility in these circumstances, under the recommended approach, wholesale access prices for passive NGA wholesale inputs or non-physical or virtual NGA wholesale inputs offering equivalent functionalities are deemed to be sufficiently constrained (i.e. price-related competition problems are considered to be effectively addressed) when: (i) there is a demonstrable retail price constraint resulting from the infrastructure competition or a price anchor stemming from cost oriented wholesale copper access prices; and (ii) the ex-ante economic replicability test is in place in those cases where wholesale ...[+++] price regulation should not be imposed; and (iii) there is an obligation of providing wholesale access services on the basis of EoI.

Such a costing methodology should be based on a modern efficient network, reflect the need for stable and predictable wholesale copper access prices over time, which avoid significant fluctuations and shocks, in order to provide a clear framework for investment and be capable of generating cost-oriented wholesale copper access prices serving as an anchor for NGA services, and deal appropriately and consistently with the impact of declining volumes caused by the transition from copper to NGA networks, i.e. avoiding an artificial increa ...[+++]se in wholesale copper access prices which would otherwise be observed as a result of customers migrating to the NGA network of the SMP operator.

Such a costing methodology should be based on a modern efficient network, reflect the need for stable and predictable wholesale copper access prices over time, which avoid significant fluctuations and shocks, in order to provide a clear framework for investment and be capable of generating cost-oriented wholesale copper access prices serving as an anchor for NGA services, and deal appropriately and consistently with the impact of declining volumes caused by the transition from copper to NGA networks, i.e. avoiding an artificial increa ...[+++]se in wholesale copper access prices which would otherwise be observed as a result of customers migrating to the NGA network of the SMP operator.

Collectively, the Balance of Payments Manual of the International Monetary Fund, the Guideline of the European Central Bank (ECB) of 2 May 2003 on the statistical reporting requirements of the European Central Bank in the field of balance of payments and international investment position statistics, and the international reserves template , the Manual on statistics of international trade in services of the United Nations, and the OECD Benchmark Definition of Foreign Direct Investment, define the general rules for compiling statistics on balance of payments, international trade in services, and foreign direct investment.

To help implement policy, the EC will prepare a toolkit for Delegations and services which will include guidelines for policy dialogue, programming guidelines offering advice concerning indicators and monitoring of country efforts, and reference documents.