If the shipping cost via the Pacific seaboard is $2 and $3 via the eastern route, and we say, for calculation purposes, we will have costs of $1, that represents 50 per cent of the westward shipping costs, but only a third, or 33 per cent, of the costs to move it eastward.

2. Notes from the Court of Auditors' report that the Agency made a payment to an international environmental organisation amounting to EUR 6 061 which was related to the participation of Agency staff in expeditions organised by that organisation in February and May 2011; notes that no procurement procedure had taken place and no contract had been drawn up for those expeditions ; notes that the Agency bore the travel costs, amounting to EUR 11 625; notes the Court of Auditors' findings that the Agency's Executive Director was a member of the international environmental organisation's board of trustees until April 2011 and that t ...[+++]his could constitute a conflict of interest;

2. Notes from the Court of Auditors' report that the Agency made a payment to an international environmental organisation amounting to EUR 6 061 which was related to the participation of Agency staff in expeditions organised by that organisation in February and May 2011; notes that no procurement procedure had taken place and no contract had been drawn up for those expeditions ; notes that the Agency bore the travel costs, amounting to EUR 11 625; notes the Court of Auditors' findings that the Agency's Executive Director was a member of the international environmental organisation’s board of trustees until April 2011 and that t ...[+++]his could constitute a conflict of interest;

Covert research by the EU into e-commerce practices showed that 60% of customer attempts to buy items across EU borders fail, with the transaction or shipping declined by the vendor, even though the buyer could have saved at least 10% by e-shopping abroad (even including shipping costs) in half of the 11,000 cases investigated.

In that case he must pay the charges in respect of carriage of the item from the place of consignment to the place where delivery is effected and refund the compensation received less, where appropriate, any costs included therein. Nevertheless he shall retain his rights to claim compensation for delay in delivery provided for in Article 43.

1. Costs arising from the return of waste from a shipment that cannot be completed, including costs of its transport, recovery or disposal pursuant to Article 22(2) or (3) and, from the date on which the competent authority of dispatch becomes aware that a shipment of waste or its recovery or disposal cannot be completed, storage costs pursuant to Article 22(9) shall be charged: