By letter of 2 July 2014, Denmark sought authorisation to apply a reduced rate of electricity tax to electricity directly provided to vessels at berth in a port (‘shore-side electricity’), in accordance with Article 19(1) of Directive 2003/96/EC.

Since the development of the natural gas network would, to a significant extent, reduce the additional heating costs and would lead to a greater diversity of fuel supply, where appropriate, the reduced rates of taxation should only be applied until the completion of the natural gas network in the communes concerned.

When public communications network providers deploy high-speed electronic communications networks in a specific area, there are significant economies of scale if they can terminate their network to the building access point, irrespective of whether a subscriber has expressed explicit interest for the service at that moment in time, but provided that the impact on private property is minimised, by using existing physical infrastructure and restoring the affected area.

In view of the social benefits stemming from digital inclusion and taking into account the economics of deployment of high-speed electronic communications networks, where there is neither existing passive or active high-speed-ready infrastructure serving end-users' premises nor alternatives to providing high-speed electronic communications networks to a subscriber, any public communications network provider should have the right to terminate its network to a private premise at its own costs, provided that the impact on private property is minimised, for example, if possible, by reusing the existing physical infrastructure available in th ...[+++]e building or ensuring full restoration of the affected areas.

(9) "small-area wireless access point" means a low power wireless network access equipment of small size operating within a small range, which may or may not be part of a public terrestrial mobile communications network, and be equipped with one or more low visual impact antennas, which allows wireless access by the public to electronic communications networks regardless of the underlying network topology;

Train, stations and relevant parts of the infrastructure that comply with the measures described within the TSI will permit interoperability and offer a similar level of access to persons with reduced mobility across the trans-European network.