Translation of "Opération en aval " (French → English) :

1. Companies operating downstream of the supply chain and taking due diligence measures, based on the OECD Due Diligence Guidance or an equivalent due diligence scheme recognised under this Regulation, may be granted a "European certification of responsibility";

two or more undertakings merge, or one or more undertakings acquire sole or joint control of another undertaking, provided that none of the parties to the concentration are engaged in business activities in the same product and geographic market , or in a product market which is upstream or downstream from a product market in which any other party to the concentration is engaged

comparison with the records of financial flows leading to or consequent upon the transactions carried out within the financing system by the EAGF; and

However it faces two limitations: adequate support is lacking for the ground-based activities which complement the space experiments, from preparatory research to downstream applications; and the implementation of the programme on the ISS is severely limited by a small share of ISS resources (5%) and limitations on ISS operations under the current NASA plans.

Such average customer lifetime would be the period of time over which the customer contributes to the recovery of the: (a) downstream costs that are annualised according to a depreciation method that is appropriate to the asset in question and the economic lifetime of the corresponding assets required for the retail operations (including network costs that are not included in the wholesale NGA access service); and (b) other downstream costs that are normally not annualised (typically the subscriber acquisition costs) and which the operator incurs to gain customers and should seek to recover over the latters’ average lifetime.

‘Downstream costs’ are the costs of retail operations, including marketing, customer acquisition, billing, and other network costs, incurred in addition to those network costs already included in the wholesale access service.