social cost

social cost

Costing Mechanism to Facilitate Sustainable Community Planning: Background Research and Costing Framework

MED-MIGRATION | Med-Migration programme | Programme for cooperation among local communities in the European Union,local communities in Mediterranean non-member countries and organizations involving migrants and supported by these communities,constituted in networks on the theme of migration

Med-Migration programme | Programme for cooperation among local communities in the European Union, local communities in Mediterranean non-member countries and organisations involving migrants and supported by these communities, constituted in networks on the theme of migration

cost-benefit analysis [ CBA | benefit-cost analysis ]

cost driver

ordering cost | acquisition cost | cost of placing order | order preparation cost

‘Fourth, where the undertaking which is to discharge public service obligations, in a specific case, is not chosen pursuant to a public procurement procedure which would allow for the selection of the tenderer capable of providing those services at the least cost to the community, the level of compensation needed must be determined on the basis of an analysis of the costs which a typical undertaking, well run and adequately provided with means of transport so as to be able to meet the necessary public service requirements, would have incurred in discharging those obligations, taking into account the relevant receipts and a reasonable pro ...[+++]fit for discharging the obligations’.

According to the ruling of the Court of Justice in the Altmark case[13], there is no State aid where (1) the public service obligations are clearly defined; (2) the parameters used to calculate the compensation are established in an objective and transparent manner; (3) compensation for the public service merely covers costs and a reasonable profit; and (4) where the undertaking is chosen by a public procurement procedure allowing for the selection of the tenderer capable of providing those services at the least cost to the communi ...[+++]ty, or the compensation is determined on the basis of an analysis of the costs of an average “well-run” undertaking in the sector concerned.

76. Recommends that the Member States expand the supply of quality social housing and emergency housing in order to guarantee access for all, and in particular for the most disadvantaged, to decent, affordable housing; considers that it costs society and the community more to rehouse people who have been evicted from their accommodation than it does to keep them there; recommends, therefore, the implementation of policies to prevent evictions, in particular by the public authorities taking responsibility for payment of rents and rent arrears of persons threatened with eviction;

76. Recommends that the Member States expand the supply of quality social housing and emergency housing in order to guarantee access for all, and in particular for the most disadvantaged, to decent, affordable housing; considers that it costs society and the community more to rehouse people who have been evicted from their accommodation than it does to keep them there; recommends, therefore, the implementation of policies to prevent evictions, in particular by the public authorities taking responsibility for payment of rents and rent arrears of persons threatened with eviction;