Examples include: unauthorised use of credit cards, which may also be associated with "identity theft" and 'match-fixing' (event-fixing) where an individual, a group of persons (typically associated with organised crime) seek to influence the outcome of an event (e.g. a sports event or a card game)[77].

A relatively high frequency reduces the risk of market abuse because it decreases the value at stake for bidders in individual auctions and increases their flexibility to make use of later auctions to adjust their trading positions.

Italy argues that, contrary to the Court's judgment in the Netherlands v Commission case (23) cited in point 30 of the decision to initiate the procedure, the beneficiaries did not even have any economic incentive to subsidise consumers because (a) they are the market incumbents and do not have any interest in completing the switchover to digital because they will then face greater competition as consumers with the digital technology will have access to many more competitors; (b) the size of the pay-per-view market was too small to compensate for a possible loss of this type and cannot be the only reason for subsidising consumers' purchase of decoders given ...[+++] the share of revenue from pay-per-view in 2004 and 2005; (c) the deadline set for switch-off was not sufficiently feasible, given that without a certain mass of consumers, no switch-off could take place.

But in certain circumstances provided for by the law (good conduct, studies, vocational training while in detention, etc.) a life term can be reduced substantially in a Member State where it is actually provided for, while a long term served in a Member State where there is no life imprisonment can amount in practice to a life term.

Let us not be deluded by today's relatively modest figures: if it is true that, in the Commission's words, 'pre-paid cards .have the potential to replace a substantial part of cash payments` and that software money 'is emerging as the payment instrument for the growing electronic commerce on the Internet` (), the sums involved could become gigantic.

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