Translation of "Usage-based pricing " (English → French) :

Also, imposing usage-based billing on its wholesale customers' own customers is price maintenance.

To date, Internet service providers have been permitted to determine how to price their services, whether to implement usage-based billing, and if so, determine the appropriate thresholds and the rates that will apply over the threshold.

I would like to reiterate the commission's view that usage-based billing is a legitimate principle for pricing Internet services.

40. Stresses that the transport sector accounts for 56 % of total oil consumption in the EU and is most affected by oil price increases; calls for a framework directive for energy efficiency in transport; stresses that a modal shift is an important means of diminishing oil usage; encourages the harmonisation of passenger car legislation, including an EU-wide harmonised CO2 based vehicle taxation with certification and labelling procedures and fiscal incentives to diversify energy sources; calls for a comprehensive strategy to phase out the use of fossil fuels in the transport sector, and to promote the market penetration of low CO2 e ...[+++]missions, the use of the latest technology biofuels or bio-hydrogen-fuelled vehicles; stresses that the introduction of biofuels must not result in the release of the automotive industry from its obligation to manufacture more economical vehicles which produce fewer pollutants;

40. Stresses that the transport sector accounts for 56 % of total oil consumption in the EU and is most affected by oil price increases; calls for a framework directive for energy efficiency in transport; stresses that a modal shift is an important means of diminishing oil usage; encourages the harmonisation of passenger car legislation, including an EU-wide harmonised CO2 based vehicle taxation with certification and labelling procedures and fiscal incentives to diversify energy sources; calls for a comprehensive strategy to phase out the use of fossil fuels in the transport sector, and to promote the market penetration of low CO2 e ...[+++]missions, the use of the latest technology biofuels or bio-hydrogen-fuelled vehicles; stresses that the introduction of biofuels must not result in the release of the automotive industry from its obligation to manufacture more economical vehicles which produce fewer pollutants;

considering medium-term policy options such as mandatory CO emissions for newly registered HDVs, modern infrastructure supporting alternative fuels, smarter pricing of infrastructure usage (pricing infrastructure use on ‘polluter-pays’ (those who pollute while using the infrastructure pay) and ‘user-pays’ (those who use the infrastructure pay) principles), effective and coherent use of vehicle taxation by EU countries and other market-based mechanisms.