Believes in a strong need for better clarification concerning the methodology and rules for the management of MIFs for card payments and for the mechanism to calculate interbanking fees for automated teller machines and non-card payments; recalls that direct debit and credit transfer schemes, such as those under the SEPA, support services that are jointly offered by two payment service providers and jointly requested by two consumers, creating economic benefits thanks to so-called network effects; suggests that the Commission establ ...[+++]ish and communicate to all stakeholders the criteria for the definition by market operators of a the methodology to be used to calculate all MIFs, to which the Commission should have regard in order to ensure a real level playing field and the enforcement of all competition rules;

The report shall supply the information necessary to show how the aggregate was reached, and in particular describe any significant changes in the procedures and basic statistics used and explain the revisions made to earlier GNI estimates.

Moreover, there is a debate in some countries on how to calculate penetration; whether the criterion should be one digital receiver per household or the conversion of all receivers in the household to digital, the secondary reception issue.

As a result of the screening, individual sectors have been grouped into four broad categories: the food and life sciences industries; the machinery and systems industries; the fashion and design industries; and the basic and intermediate product industries[12].

The Commission shall, at the latest by 31 December 2006 and in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 4(2) of this Decision, determine the respective emission levels allocated to the European Community and to each Member State in terms of tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent following the establishment of definitive base-year emission figures and on the basis of the quantified emission limitation or reduction commitments set out in Annex II, taking into account the methodologies for estimating anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks referred to in Article 5(2) of the Protocol and the modalitie ...[+++]s for the calculation of assigned amount pursuant to Article 3(7) and (8) of the Protocol.

WHEREAS THE METHOD OF CALCULATING THE NET QUANTITIES EXPORTED , TO BE TAKEN AS A BASIS IN ESTABLISHING FIGURES FOR REFUNDS ON EXPORTS TO THIRD COUNTRIES , SHOULD BE LAID DOWN , AND WHEREAS THE METHOD DESCRIBED AS THE " BASIS PRODUCTS " METHOD IS THE MOST SUITABLE ; WHEREAS , FURTHERMORE , CERTAIN KINDS OF TRADE CARRIED ON UNDER SPECIAL SYSTEMS MUST NOT BE INCLUDED IN THIS CALCULATION ;