Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/2001 (1), and in particular the first indent of Article 15(8), Article 16(5), and Article 18(5), empowered the Commission to adopt detailed rules on the basic production levy and the B levy to be collected from quota holders operating in the framework of the common organisation of markets in the sugar sector, the coefficient for the calculation of an additional levy, and the repayment or recovery of part of the levies from beet sellers.

When imposing cost-oriented access prices, NRAs may continue to apply beyond 31 December 2016 the costing methodology that they use at the time of entry into force of this Recommendation, if it meets the objectives of the recommended costing methodology as set out in recitals 25 to 28 and satisfies the following criteria: (i) if not modelling an NGA network, it should reflect a gradual shift from a copper network to an NGA network; (ii) it should apply an asset valuation method that takes into account that certain civil infrastructure assets would not be replicated in the competitive process; (iii) it should be accompanied by documente ...[+++]d projections of copper network prices showing that they will not fluctuate significantly and therefore will remain stable over a long time period and that the alternative methodology meets the objective of regulatory transparency and predictability as well as the need to ensure price stability; and (iv) it should require only minimal modifications with respect to the costing methodology already in place in that Member State in order to meet the first three criteria.

When implementing the recommended costing methodology or alternative costing methodologies that comply with points 40 and 44, and the NRA maintains the methodology in line with point 46, NRAs should only update the data input into the costing methodology when conducting a new market review, in principle after three years.

Save in cases covered by point 40, in those Member States, where, at the time of entry into force of this Recommendation, monthly rental prices for the full unbundled copper local loop fall outside the price band, NRAs should calculate costs and resulting access prices on the basis of the recommended costing methodology as soon as possible and notify the corresponding draft measure in accordance with the consultation procedure in Article 7 of Directive 2002/21/EC in due time, to ensure full implementation of the recommended costing me ...[+++]thodology by 31 December 2016, bearing in mind the potential need for gradual price adjustments, in particular in those Member States where access prices are currently not cost oriented.

In order not to discourage credit institutions from moving to the Internal Ratings Based Approach (the IRB Approach) or Advanced Measurement Approaches for calculating the capital requirements during the transitional period due to unreasonable and disproportionate implementation costs, it should be possible to allow credit institutions which have moved to the IRB Approach or Advanced Measurement Approaches since 1 January 2010 and which have previously calculated their capital requirements in accordance with other less sophisticated approaches, subject to supervisory approval, to use the less sophisticated approaches as the basi ...[+++]s for the calculation of the transitional floor.

Based on the government's own calculations, 9,000 jobs were lost as a direct result of the UI premium rate increase that came into effect on January 1.