Translation of "échéance à terme " (French → English) :

I turned out at the end of the period of time with a profit, which was a surprise to me and to everybody else, given my earlier reluctance in that area.

The UK maintained that the Commission’s reference interest rates were not a valid comparator for the rates on the 2001 loan, in particular because the Commission’s rates are based on five year maturity dates and the loan in question consisted of long-term debt with a range of maturity dates between 20 and 25 years, because the loan advanced to Royal Mail reflected commercial rates available to similarly positioned long-term borrowers, and because the UK yield curve in 1999-2000 (the relevant period for calculating interest) was moving downwards making corporate borrowing cheaper.

27. Requests the Commission to use economic, social, health and environmental impact assessments more coherently, to cooperate with the European Parliament in monitoring and improving existing legislation, and thereby implement effectively the interinstitutional agreement on Better Law-Making as a matter of priority, including appropriate mechanisms for effective consultation of all stakeholders; insists, however, that impact assessment must always take account of the costs of not taking action and of longer-terms costs and benefits in monetary and qualitative terms; calls also for better ex-post evaluation of adopted and implemented m ...[+++]easures;

31. Requests the Commission to use economic, social, health and environmental impact assessments more coherently, to cooperate with the European Parliament in monitoring and improving existing legislation, and thereby implement effectively the Interinstitutional Agreement on better law-making as a matter of priority, including appropriate mechanisms for effective consultation of all stakeholders; insists, however, that impact assessment must always take account of the costs of not taking action and of longer-terms costs and benefits in monetary and qualitative terms; calls also for better ex-post evaluation of adopted and implemented m ...[+++]easures;

1. The consumer shall be entitled to discharge fully or partially his obligations under a credit agreement at any time before expiry of the period fixed in the agreement.

Thus a long interest‐rate futures position shall be treated as a combination of a borrowing maturing on the delivery date of the futures contract and a holding of an asset with maturity date equal to that of the instrument or notional position underlying the futures contract in question.