Übersetzung für "to back a bill " (Englisch → Deutsch) :

to back a bill | to endorse a bill | to guarantee payment of a bill

approval of introduction | introduction of a bill | introduction

enforcement of a bill of exchange

fine bill | fine trade bill | first-class bill | prime bill | prime trade bill

check bills of events | review bills of events | review event bills | review events' bills

check billing operations | monitor procedures of billing | monitor billing procedure | monitor billing procedures

allocate bill | allocating bills | allocate bills | dispense bills

after date bill | after-sight bill | draft with usance | term bill | time bill

non-government bill [ private member's bill ]

back end of a vehicle (1) | rear end of a vehicle (2)

While most of this extra investment would be paid back over time through lower energy bills and increased productivity, markets tend to discount future benefits, and disregard long-term risks.

Points out that although European electricity retail prices for small and medium-sized industrial and business customers and private consumers are relatively high in many Member States, investing in energy efficiency can boost the competitiveness of European businesses and reduce energy costs for private consumers; stresses, however, that the electricity bill in the EU consists on average of one third of indirect, state-induced tax and levies for private households, which when applied as fixed elements on bills, can make it difficult for consumers to feel the benefits from energy saving, and contributes to energy poverty; notes that le ...[+++]vies to finance European climate and energy policies are the smallest part of the bill; and underlines that the high energy prices in the EU result in a difference in energy prices between EU Member States and our main competitors in large parts of the world, which inhibit the competitiveness of European energy-intensive industries; notes that innovation also increases with greater investment in energy efficiency, placing EU industry in a world-leading position.

Points out that consumers’ energy bills are still unclear and inaccurate; recommends improving the transparency and clarity of bills by establishing high-level principles for bills at EU level so that key information is available to consumers in a comparable format in order to help them adjust consumption patterns; stresses that consumers have a diverse range of preferences and of accessible tools, and that therefore the approach to information should be shaped by consumer research at national level.

In Latvia, for example, costs had increased by 27% in February 2011, while in France 42% of households had cut back on heating their homes to save on energy bills last year. In Germany prices were expected to go up by 10 to 15% again this year.