Avoidable costs are the difference between the identified total long-run costs of an operator providing its full range of services and the identified total long-run costs of that operator providing its full range of services except for the wholesale call termination service supplied to third parties (i.e. stand-alone cost of an operator not offering termination to third parties).

· Differences in product mix: Differences in consumer protection rules, private law and consumer habits across EU countries make selling of the same financial product mix across Member States difficult and require that financial institutions adjust their product mix to Member state's rules, laws and habits.

Eeff effective irradiance (UV range): calculated irradiance within the UV wavelength range 180 to 400 nm spectrally weighted by S (λ), expressed in watts per square metre [W m-2];

The political dialogue and cooperation agreement between the European Union and the Central American countries, the subject of this document, marks a qualitative step forward in relations between the two parties. At present these are built on a dual foundation in the form of the Framework Cooperation Agreement signed in 1993, which entered into force in 1999, and the GSP ‘Drugs Regime’, which offers tariff advantages over and above those in place under the general scheme with a view to encouraging a switch from coca growing and expanding the range of agricultural produce for export.

2 The range for cetane number is not in accordance with the requirements of a minimum range of 4R. However, in the case of a dispute between fuel supplier and fuel user, the terms of ISO 4259 may be used to resolve such disputes provided replicate measurements, of sufficient number to archive the necessary precision, are made in preference to single determinations.

1. Wishes to compliment the European Commission on its communication, which demonstrates a broad and complete analysis and includes sensible proposals, but considers that there is a need for a clearer and unambigous formulation of the political aims and principles underlying the further development of the European telecommunications market and a further consideration of a number of themes, such as the concept of competition, the question of dealing with an imperfect market, the proposed system of Significant Market Power and Dominant Positions, general authorisation and auctions, and the institutional framework with respect to the democr ...[+++]atic basis and certainty for market players; considers that the Commission should promote the creation of a level playing field in relation to the three objectives of the 1999 Review and stresses that, in some Member States, no auctions of UMTS frequencies are held, as a result of which some ICT companies obtain UMTS frequencies at far lower prices than their competitors; points out that this does not create a level playing field; observes that the influence of governments on national ICT companies is regulated in very different ways (e.g. by means of minority holdings or golden shares) and that this has constituted an obstacle to mergers between European ICT companies; calls on the Commission to create a level playing field in this respect too;