Translation of "Tarif échelonné selon la consommation " (French → English) :

114. Stresses that in the next decade there will be significant investment needs in the power sector on account of the expected replacement of existing power plants and grid modernisation; insists that energy savings and efficiency measures will play a key role in bringing down costs and securing the lowest possible electricity prices for consumers; points out that the building sector accounts for 40 % of the EU’s gross energy consumption and that, according to the IEA, 80 % of the energy efficiency potential in the building sector, ...[+++] and more than 50 % in the industrial sector, remains unexploited; sees significant potential in this area for reducing energy bills;

112. Stresses that in the next decade there will be significant investment needs in the power sector on account of the expected replacement of existing power plants and grid modernisation; insists that energy savings and efficiency measures will play a key role in bringing down costs and securing the lowest possible electricity prices for consumers; points out that the building sector accounts for 40 % of the EU’s gross energy consumption and that, according to the IEA, 80 % of the energy efficiency potential in the building sector, ...[+++] and more than 50 % in the industrial sector, remains unexploited; sees significant potential in this area for reducing energy bills;

(c) the roaming provider and any contractual partners within the meaning of point (b) each undertakes to make available and actively offer, at the latest as from 1 July 2014, or as from the date of notification, whichever is the later, at least one retail package with a tariff option according to which the applicable domestic service rate applies to both domestic services and regulated roaming services throughout the Union, as if those regulated roaming services were consumed on the home network;

Before the conclusion of the negotiations on this subject which are being conducted with the Community's partners in accordance with WTO procedures, the Commission should submit a progress report to the European Parliament and the Council which focuses in particular on trends in consumption and producers' income within the Community and on the Union's commitments vis-à-vis the ACP countries, and which enables an assessment to be made of a possible single customs duty to be negotiated at a level which can be borne by the most vulnerable producers, and of the putting forward of appropriate compensatory measures.

18. Notes that new wireless technology and new value-added services will increase the revenue potential of every connection, and calls upon the Commission to monitor universal service provision closely to ensure that market mechanisms deliver enhanced access for all EU citizens, wherever they reside; also supports the Commission's view that low user tariffs will remain key mechanisms for ensuring universal access;

Until the stepped rates went into place, industry continued to consume.