With effect from 15 December 2015, roaming providers shall not levy any surcharge in comparison to the charges for mobile communications services at domestic level on roaming customers in any Member States for any regulated roaming call made or received, for any regulated roaming SMS/MMS message sent and for any regulated data roaming services used, nor any general charge to enable the terminal equipment or service to be used abroad.

First, to limit instances where the rules result in tax credits being provided for overhead costs that exceed the actual costs incurred, today's legislation proposes to gradually reduce the " prescribed proxy amount" — used to compute overhead expenditures under the so-called " proxy method" — from 65 per cent to 55 per cent of direct labour costs.

5. Observes that current rules for payment of the General Expenditure allowance, which state that money is to be paid to a personal account of the Member but which do not require any proof of expenditure, have led to the creation of a division between those Members who account for the expenditure in full and publish details thereof and those who do not adopt such transparent procedures and who, thereby, risk the accusation that a proportion of the allowance is being used to supplement their personal income; calls on the Secretary-General to propose arrangements to ensure that expenditure of the allowance is transparent in all cases and ...[+++]used for the purposes intended;

118. As regards the certificates on the methodology (CoM and CoMAv), is concerned at as yet unapproved certificates and urges the Commission to establish the necessary comprehensible criteria for approving certificates on the methodology for both personnel and indirect costs; believes that beneficiaries should be allowed to use average personnel costs and to apply an established methodology for calculating the indirect cost; calls for a timely start to the process of approving (or rejecting) the certificates to make sure that the funds earmarked for research can be used; asks the Commission to accept such average hourly rates per cost centre without a certification as regard ...[+++]s the methodology at least if they are audited and certified by a national authority;

120. Is concerned about as yet unapproved certificates on the methodology (CoM and CoMAv) and urges the Commission to establish the necessary comprehensible criteria for approving certificates on the methodology for both personnel and indirect costs; believes that beneficiaries should be allowed to use average personnel costs and to apply an established methodology for calculating the indirect cost; calls for a timely start to the process of approving (or rejecting) the certificates to make sure that the funds earmarked for research can be used;

However, if you have a general charge, in the form of an annual fee or something, for using the system that is independent of any specific service that they want to use at a particular time, then in that way the user makes a contribution to pay for the system, but does not have the incentive to avoid using a particular safety-related service.