Translation of "Montant des débits de redressement " (French → English) :

There are already examples of services that depend on such connections: smart electrical grids that require low latency and can cut consumer expenditure and lower generating costs; real-time cloud computing services that require symmetrical upload and download speeds and can be used by small businesses to lower their costs; and intensive e-health services offered to remote hospitals and patients.

annul the decision contained in the European Commission’s letter of 22 December 2014 (Ares(2014)4324235) declining to amend European Commission Decision 2006/776/EC on the amounts to be charged for the quantities of surplus sugar not eliminated (1);

Article 15(1) of Guideline ECB/2006/9 of 14 July 2006 on certain preparations for the euro cash changeover and on frontloading and sub-frontloading of euro banknotes and coins outside the euro area (4) provides that euro banknotes frontloaded to eligible counterparties are debited in those counterparties’ accounts with their NCB at their face value, in accordance with the following ‘linear debiting model’: the total amount of frontloaded euro banknotes are debited in three equal instalments, on the settlement date of the first, fourth and fifth Eurosystem main refinancing operations following the cash changeover date.

In terms of speed, download speeds are on average 2 Mbps (Megabytes per second) or more, while uploads are 256 Kbps or more.

World demand for bandwidth has been growing at roughly 50-60 % per year [4], driven by the extension of internet use, from simple email and text files (in the era of 56 Kbps dial-up internet) to internet surfing (with the advent of always-on broadband) and then increased integration of graphical and audiovisual content on websites (supported by the current generation of ADSL, which offers download speeds of 2 Mbps or more and uploads of 256 Kbps).

1. Euro banknotes and coins frontloaded to eligible counterparties shall be debited in those counterparties’ accounts with their future Eurosystem NCB at their face value, in accordance with the following ‘linear debiting model’: the total amount of frontloaded euro banknotes and coins shall be debited in three equal instalments, on the settlement date of the first, fourth and fifth Eurosystem main refinancing operations following the cash changeover date.