Translation of "Vorlaufkosten" in English

What African farmer, despite his lower initial costs, can compete?

Ex-ante compliance costs multiply throughout the economic chain.

It's early, so there could be upfront costs.

They avoid upfront capital expenditure costs at the same time.

No up-front cost, pay only on usage.

There is no capital investment, no upfront costs and no risk.

Vocalcom Cloud call center software delivers state-of-the-art capabilities with no setup fees or up-front capital investment.

The results would offset the upfront costs in less than one generation.

In addition, there were higher start-up costs for sales and product development for opening up new markets.

Reduced upfront costs can make it an extremely attractive option for small businesses.

Earnings by the Nordics also included upfront costs in respect of the TUI brand migration.

Just ask the mobile telephone operators, who have to make a substantial investment at the outset and do not yet earn as much income as the older companies, what they have to finance in the way of start-up costs and how difficult the situation is for some of them.

New nuclear power plants have high up-front costs (which can be politically challenging), including a very complicated, slow, and fraught planning process.

While the private sector can meet some of these needs, it can go only so far, especially given the nature of infrastructure projects’ risks, the huge upfront costs, and the high cyclical sensitivity of global financial markets.

And, worldwide, the public pays for an estimated two-thirds of all upfront costs for pharmaceutical research and development.

Moreover, ex-ante compliance costs are sunk costs which have to be paid before a company can even decide whether or not to enter another Member State’s market.

In addition, many project developers still face obstacles in raising the necessary up-front costs for their projects and lack access to attractive and adequate financing products from the market.

However, since barriers normally affect each of the stages of the business activity, the overall level of ex-ante compliance costs is much higher.

Implementation of e-procurement solutions inevitably incurs some up-front costs, but experience shows that these can be recouped in a relatively short period of time.

The examples in the field of retailing below show that ex-ante compliance costs are considerable even when they concern only one or two stages of a service provider’s economic chain.

Barriers result in ex-ante compliance costs on cross-border service use and provision.

There will be substantial up-front costs both for the private sector (motor manufacturers, battery makers, infrastructure providers etc.) and for the public sector (R and D, infrastructure, incentive payments etc.) in the early stages of the transition, and the faster the change can take place the more quickly the investments will show an economic return.

Providing increased financial incentive is a key element in lowering the barriers that high up-front costs represent and in stimulating sustainable energy improvements.

Average firm sizes in the European retail sector suggest that ex-ante compliance costs are disproportionately high compared to turnover and would, in all likelihood, dissuade an average sized European retailer from even considering an Internal Market strategy.

Reduced investment in research and development, innovation and training will result as available resources are diverted to meet the ex-ante and organisational compliance costs and as there will be lower levels of revenue growth.

Resource-efficiency policies, including energy-efficiency investments, often have short-term, up-front costs before the medium- and longer-term benefits are felt.

However, competitors from other parts of the world now also offer CCGT technology, with lower up-front investment costs, but with significantly lower fuel efficiency of around 40%.

The experience gained in mounting it would doubtless reduce its initial cost were training of this kind to be reproduced or widely appiied.

This would include in particular opening them up to enterprises with their own research departments, the inclusion of preliminary costs in the eligible project costs and maintaining the exploratory awards;