Here I attach the utmost importance to there being no cross-subsidisation.

Nor should cross-subsidisation of any kind be admissible.

Cross-subsidisation will occur between good and bad expenditure.

This also means boycotting the cross-subsidisation provided by research institutes in Great Britain.

Is it the case that cross-subsidisation between the production company and the network company is now a thing of the past?

The system proposed amounts to cross-subsidisation between airports.

Besides external factors, the chief course of these problems was the obsolete company structure with extensive cross-subsidisation between the divisions.

The paper is therefore heavily dependent on cross-subsidisation from profitable companies within the group, including Auto Trader.

It is not about letting the US pull the wool over our eyes about hidden military subsidies and ensuing cross-subsidisation.

Its the enforced non-transparent cross-subsidisation of one group of consumers by another that makes it stealthy and allows people to claim 'taxpayers, aren't involved'.

The fact that there is a possible cross-subsidisation in favour of rail transport is an aspect which is perfectly defensible.

In other words, airlines are to be able to compete freely, charging fares they judge to be appropriate, so long as these are not predatory and the result of cross-subsidisation.

The state aid procedure covers the question of cross-subsidisation between monopoly letter services and commercial business parcel activities as well as the financing of Deutsche Post' s numerous recent acquisitions.

The Boards were far from innocent, however, and when they later developed a proper accounting system to allocate overheads fairly it was found that there had indeed been some unfair cross-subsidisation to their contracting accounts.

There is, of course, always a danger that, in industries with some monopoly power, an element of competition, far from being beneficial, will induce uneconomic cross-subsidisation to win business, and this certainly happened in some areas.

Our objective in producing this report is to draw together certain fundamental principles which I have already mentioned: the "user pays" principle, the "polluter pays" principle and the principle of cross-subsidisation etc. together.

With regard to the universal provision of services by postal companies, Mr Bolkestein once mentioned the compensation fund which could be a purely mechanical way of solving the problem of cross-subsidisation at the coalface.

The Commission's only responsibility is to see to it that, whatever the nature of the contract, whatever it may say about, for instance, new technical solutions or cross-subsidisation, competition is allowed and other economic actors have the chance to bid for the contract.

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Mrs Schmidbauer has hit the nail on the head: the fair payment model in the transport sector has shown us that we need to work on the essential points, which means that we should dispense with cross-subsidisation.

The effects have yet to be fully assessed, but there is some concern that, as bus companies are no longer allowed to engage in cross-subsidisation (ie direct profits from profitable routes towards subsidising unprofitable ones), unprofitable routes and evening and weekend services may be forced to close.

France persisted in operating a policy of cross-subsidisation where profitable coal mines subsidised those making losses, and where in any case the profitability of the whole industry depended upon generous governmental support - both policies which directly infringed the conditions of the ECSC treaty.

British Rail enjoyed a boom in patronage on the routes operated by the HSTs, and InterCity's profits jumped accordingly, with cross-subsidisation safeguarding the future of rural routes that had been under threat of closure since the Beeching Axe of the 1960s.

The introduction of cost-reflective tariffs together with cross-subsidisation between richer and poorer consumers is an essential governance reform in order to reduce the high levels of Unaccounted or Water (UAW) and to provide the finance needed to extend the network to those poorest households who remain unconnected.