Translation of "Entgeltsystem" in English

This includes common standards for a distance-based charging system in the EU.

Aircraft noise is already an element in some Community airport charging systems.

That leads to two segments in the simultaneity function and therefore also leads to four network tariffs: one consumption and capacity tariff for users below 2500 hours of full use and one consumption and capacity tariff for users above 2500 hours of full use.

32 In its Conclusions, the Energy Council of 30 May 2000 invited the Commission, Member States and national regulatory authorities/administrations to ensure a rapid introduction of a robust tarification system and methodology to allocate available interconnection capacity for the longer term.

In fact, the Commission in its proposal for a definitive tarification system outlined below (2.4.5.) suggests the principle of repartition of costs for all Member States and, consequently, it would be inconsistent to encourage those Member States willing to adopt this approach already under the provisional system to abandon it and introduce an export charge.

For this, it might be envisaged to reinforce provisions aiming at eliminating those elements of pay systems which result in gender discrimination.

This definition of network covered by the Community framework does not prevent the Member States, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, from considering applying an infrastructure charging system on roads that are not part of the main itineraries.

However, even if the provisional system can finally enter into force, a number of important issues remain to be resolved before a definitive tarification system fully in line with the basic principles mentioned above can be put into place.

At the same time the new charging system would lead to a more efficient use of the infrastructure and thereby, to some extent, reduce the need for new investment.

One important issue, however, was left to subsidiarity: the way in which national TSOs reflect the result of the compensations paid and received in their national tariff system.

This does not exempt them to notify their national measures concerning the market opening, as well as the measures related to the other aspects covered by the “rail infrastructure package” (independent capacity allocation, charging scheme, independent regulator, provisions on licensing and safety certification, etc…).

Charging will have all the more chance of being understood and accepted by users if it is reflected in an improvement in the quality of service offered by infrastructure managers.

The Forum rapidly agreed the basic principles upon which such a tarification system must be based; transparency, simplicity, cost-reflectiveness and non-discrimination.

The Commission wants to guide Member States on what constitutes a non-discriminatory charging scheme.

This does not exempt them to notify their national measures concerning the market opening, as well as the measures related to the other aspects covered by the “rail infrastructure package” (independent capacity allocation, charging scheme, independent regulator, provisions on licensing and safety certification, etc…).

Member States which choose to apply such a system of road charging can offset the introduction of tolls by reducing or eliminating the annual vehicle road tax.

Ireland is abandoning the use of analogues for pay gradings, France Telecom is establishing its own grading structure, and Denmark employs an increasing share on its alternative pay system which is not linked to the public sector but to qualifications.

The Court ruled that where an employer applies a system of pay which is wholly lacking in transparency, it is for the employer to prove that the wages policy is not discriminatory, so long as it is established by a relatively large number of employees that the average pay for women is less than that for men.

Estonia, by contrast, has reported the exceptional situation that the national pay system in the civil service is not transparent.