Translation of "Réduction pour les clients à demande élevée " (French → English) :

In the more severe cases, these countries have economic adjustment programmes in place which should lead, over time, to a gradual reduction of the elevated demand for central bank liquidity displayed by the banks of these countries.

17. Notes that multilateral interchange fees in the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) vary significantly between Member States and are often higher than necessary; Believes that these fees should be progressively harmonised in the SEPA by a fixed deadline, in such a way as to respect the European competition rules and encourage market openness and transparency so as to ensure that consumers are not overcharged; calls on the Commission to conduct an impact assessment, by the end of 2012, on the option of setting a cap for MIFs and progressively reducing it; believes at the same time that it is necessary to devise mechanisms and safeguar ...[+++]ds to ensure that costs are not, in one way or another, passed on to consumers; calls, in parallel, for unfair treatment of consumers in the form of surcharges, rebates, hidden costs or the use of steering practices limiting or restricting consumer choice to be progressively outlawed, paving the way for a more transparent, accessible and, in the eyes of consumers, trustworthy European single market in payments; believes that existing ‘No Discrimination’ and ‘Honour All Cards’ rules should be maintained and not changed;

(3) Emergency level (Emergency): when an exceptionally high demand occurs or when there is a disruption of the supply through or from the largest infrastructure or source and there is a credible risk that the supply standard to the protected customers can no longer be met with market based instruments alone.

This would be necessary to generate a sufficiently high demand for emissions reductions, so that developed countries actually reduce their emissions instead of simply offsetting them with carbon credits.

18. Calls on the Commission to ensure adequate efforts for all manufacturers and incentives for reducing greenhouse gas emissions across the vehicle fleet; considers, however, that any future scheme should not reward, either directly or indirectly, manufacturers of historically more polluting vehicles, that vehicles with higher CO2 emissions must also be required to make a greater contribution to reducing CO2, and that the scheme should reward the most advanced technologies and alternative fuels according to their greenhouse gas performance (hybrids, hydrogen, electric vehicles or other alternative fuels);

2. Without prejudice to any reductions or exclusions to be applied following the actual determination of area in accordance with Articles 51 and 53, with regard to an application for aid under the single payment scheme, if there is a discrepancy between the payment entitlements declared and the area declared, the calculation of the payment shall be based on the lower size.