start-up and shut-down operations | start-up and shut-down periods

start-up period

initial stage

Smoking cessation program start date

idle stop-start system | stop-start system | idle stop and go system | ISG system

air starting system [ compressed air starting system ]

Perinatal nonspecific brain dysfunction

At the first annual meeting, in December 2001, the Luxembourg authorities reported that, after a fairly difficult start-up period, 80% of the financial resources for 2000-03 had been committed following the first public calls for projects.

Risk aversion often makes investors and banks shy away from financing firms in their start-up and early expansion stages.

Where the costs for part of the period for cost recovery are affected by the use of new production facilities requiring substantial additional investment and by low-capacity utilisation rates, which are the result of start-up operations which take place within or during part of the investigation period, the average costs for the start-up phase shall be those applicable, under the abovementioned allocation rules, at the end of such a phase, and shall be included at that level, for the period concerned, in the weighted average costs referred to in the second subparagraph of paragraph 4.

(2) Where any of the costs determined under subsection (1) are affected by start-up operations that limit the level of production associated with the initial phases of commercial production owing to technical difficulties during the start-up period of production that are related to the use of new production facilities or the production of a new or substantially different product, the affected costs shall be adjusted on the basis of the costs that exist at the end of the start-up period of production or, if the period extends beyond the investigation period, on the basis of the costs that exist at the end of that period.