Translation of "cross-subsidy " (English → French) :

Mr. Leonard St-Aubin: —and that organization, but I just wanted to point out that there is currently a significant amount of subsidy going into and cross-subsidy going from long-distance services, and competition has maintained that level of subsidy flowing into rural areas in particular.

Cross-subsidy shall be allowed between different air navigation services in either one of those two categories only when justified for objective reasons, subject to clear identification.

cross-subsidy shall not be allowed between en-route services and terminal services.

In particular, a national regulatory authority may require a vertically integrated company to make transparent its wholesale prices and its internal transfer prices inter alia to ensure compliance where there is a requirement for non-discrimination under Article 10 or, where necessary, to prevent unfair cross-subsidy.

Cross-subsidies can be permitted across geographic areas in order to allow the péréquation tarifaire and from the non-reserved area to the reserved area. There could also be cross-subsidies from the reserved to the non-reserved area if they were necessary to assure the universal service and if they were compatible with competition rules.

The Commission attaches the following conditions to Atlas/GlobalOne: - FT and DT must establish and maintain access to their domestic public switched data networks in France and Germany, even after their integration into Atlas, on a non-discriminatory, open and transparent basis to all service providers offering low-level data services (i.e. using protocols such as X.25, Frame Relay, Internet or SNA); to ensure continued non-discriminatory access in the future, they must also implement any generally applied standardised interconnection standard that may modify, replace or co-exist with, the current standard; - FT and DT must treat Atlas/GlobalOne and all third party competitors in a non-discriminatory way in relation to their facilities; ...[+++] this condition extends to the availability of facilities-related services, to the terms and conditions of service provision and to relevant information on such services; - FT and DT are prohibited from any cross-subsidisation; to prevent cross-subsidies, all entities formed pursuant to the Atlas and GlobalOne ventures are established as distinct entities, separate from the parent companies; FT, DT and their joint entities must implement an analytical accounting system, subject to regular external auditing, to ensure that these entities deal with FT or DT on an arm's length basis at all times; - FT and DT acting as Atlas/GlobalOne's distributors in France and Germany must conclude separate one separate contract for their own services and one for the distributed Atlas/GlobalOne services respectively; each of the two contracts must identify the price and the rebate, if any, of each individual service provided; - FT must sell INFO AG, an important competitor of T-Data on the German data network services market, before a specified deadline.