Charging Principles Clause Samples
The Charging Principles clause defines the rules and methodologies for determining how charges or fees are calculated and applied under an agreement. It typically outlines the basis for pricing, such as fixed rates, time and materials, or usage-based fees, and may specify when and how charges are invoiced or adjusted. By establishing clear guidelines for financial transactions, this clause ensures transparency and predictability in billing, reducing the risk of disputes over payment and helping both parties manage their financial expectations.
Charging Principles. 15.1 Subject to the remainder of this paragraph 15, any funding arrangements entered into between National Grid and the Councils under specific Work Packages shall be in accordance with the following principles:
(a) the charging relates exclusively to each Council's recovery of its costs for the provision of services it is authorised but not required (by an enactment) to provide;
(b) the payments are on a not-for profit basis (year by year) and, taking one year with another, the income from the charges for such services must not exceed the cost of providing them;
(c) there shall be full transparency with regard to costs incurred;
(d) the sole basis for charging is that the Councils can recover resources expended to achieve delivery of an Approved Work Package (as defined in Schedule 4), in accordance with this Agreement and the terms of the Work Package;
(e) the Councils shall use all reasonable endeavours to keep costs payable by National Grid under this Agreement to a minimum including but not limited to sharing resources between each Council, making the best use of available information having due regard to statutory obligations; and
(f) National Grid does not have to pay for any work forming part of a Work Package that National Grid has not given its prior approval to via the Strategic Project Board or otherwise
15.2 In the event that anticipated resource expenditure required to complete any Work Package is reasonably expected to exceed the authorised expenditure limit for that Work Package, this shall immediately be brought to the attention of the Strategic Project Board and separately to National Grid and no further financial commitment shall be entered into in respect of that Work Package until either National Grid has so agreed or the Councils have chosen to pursue that Work Package (or relevant part of it) using its/their own sources of funding.
15.3 Subject to paragraph 15.4, costs eligible for charging to National Grid shall be based:
(a) where the work is carried out by third parties under contract, on the amounts invoiced to the Party that commissions the work;
(b) where the work is carried out by a Council‟s employees, on the internal staff resources necessary and committed in the agreed Work Package. For the avoidance of doubt such resources may include those used to administer third party contracts required for the implementation of this Agreement and for the further avoidance of doubt may include those used to provide legal and financial a...
Charging Principles. 2.1 Charges for Co-Location shall be as set out in Annex D, as amended from time to time by the Parties, subject to approval by the Authority, which shall not apply in case of Interconnection at Third Party Interconnection Site unless otherwise agreed.
Charging Principles. 2.1 The Parties agree to pay Charges for termination of Short Messages on other Party’s network in accordance with Clause 3 of Annex D of this Agreement.
Charging Principles. 2.1. The Charges shall take account of and comply with this Agreement and the requirements of the DCC Licence.
2.2. The Charges shall be clear, transparent, unambiguous and straight-forward to administer, represent the most appropriate and cost-effective option for the Services and be based on incurred costs of delivering individual Services.
2.3. The Charges may be increased only by agreement by DCC and the Contractor in accordance with clause 11 (Change Control) of the Agreement.
2.4. Any additional Charges payable for the Services (e.g. change control or additional services) shall be quoted in advance and the Contractor shall provide such supporting information a DCC may require in connection with such quotations.
2.5. Where the Charges are based upon time spent by individuals:-
2.5.1. The Contractor’s standard daily fee rates are calculated on the basis of a seven and a half hour day worked on weekdays during normal office hours in the UK (excluding weekends and public holidays).
2.5.2. The Contractor shall only be entitled to payment at rates which are commensurate to the task in question, and the Contractor will not seek to charge rates for persons that have a greater level of experience or qualifications than the task requires.
2.6. Where any Charge or limit which is expressed in this Schedule in monthly terms (“monthly” and “month” both referring to calendar months) applies for any reason for part of a month, rather than a whole month, that Charge shall be pro-rated in proportion to the ratio of the days of the month during which the Charges or limit applies to the overall number of days in the month, and any remaining days of the month may either have no or different Charges applied to them on a similar pro-rated basis, as the case may be.
Charging Principles. 4.1 For any Originating Interconnected Call that originates from the Supplier’s Network, the Supplier will collect the Origination Charge from the Acquirer.
4.2 For any Call Origination Service that transits through another Licensee’s Network, the Supplier will collect the Origination Charge from the Acquirer and recover any Transit Charge from the Acquirer for such Charges that the Supplier pays to the other Licensee’s Network who provides a call transit service. Each Party shall, for those Originating Interconnected Calls for which it is providing or receiving (as the case may be) a Call Origination Service, collect a Call record for each individual Originating Interconnected Call on a CDR basis and process such records in accordance with clause 5.
4.3 The Call records collected by the Supplier in accordance with this clause 4 shall be the source of the data used by the Supplier to invoice for the Call Origination Service it provides under this RIO Agreement.
4.4 The calculation of Charges for Call Origination Service will be based on the number of Call Durations recorded on the basis of the applicable Billing Unit, and in accordance with the applicable rates set out in Schedule 9.
4.5 Calls shall be charged based on the rates for the duration of use of the circuit for the Call. Duration of use of a circuit shall start at the time the circuit used for the Call is seized and end at the time the circuit is released. All Calls, regardless of whether they are successful or unsuccessful, are chargeable. The Charges shall be accounted in per second blocks.
4.6 The Parties shall agree that if a Chargeable Call Duration extends over two (2) or more Charge rate periods, the Call shall be recorded as a single Call in the Charge rate period which applies at the commencement of the Call and the Chargeable Call Duration will be determined by adopting the applicable rate set out in Schedule 9 for the applicable charging period in which the Call is answered.
4.7 The Parties agree that for Calls that cross over to the next Billing Period, the Calls shall be billed in the Billing Period in which those Calls end.
Charging Principles. E.1.1. Delivered services and related installation and usage charges will be invoiced according to the principles and procedures defined in this Annex. The value of charges will be calculated using the prices as defined in Annex G - Price List or as notified to the Access Seeker.
Charging Principles. 2.1 The Parties agree to pay Charges for termination of Multimedia Messages on other Party’s network in accordance with Clause 3 of Annex D of this Agreement.
Charging Principles. 3.1 For any Terminating Interconnected Calls terminating in a Party’s Network, such Party will collect the Termination Charge from the other Party and the other Party shall be obligated to make payment for the same. For the avoidance of doubt, the Call Termination Service by PMCL is not provided for termination of Calls to Third Party Networks.
3.2 Each Party shall, for those Terminating Interconnected Calls for which it is providing (as the case may be) or receiving a Call Termination Service, collect a Call Detail Record (“CDR”) for each individual Terminating Interconnected Call and process such records in accordance with Clause 3.10 of this Schedule.
3.3 The Call Detail Records collected by a Party in accordance with this Clause 3 shall be the source of the data used by such Party to invoice for the Call Termination Service it provides under this Interconnection Agreement.
3.4 The calculation of Charges for the Call Termination Service for Successful Calls will be based on the Call Durations recorded on the basis set out in Clauses 3.5 and 3.6 of this Schedule and in accordance with the applicable rates set out in Annex D as amended from time to time.
3.5 The Charges for Call Termination Services provided by the Parties shall be accounted for as follows:
(a) For Domestic Call Termination Service, the Charges shall be on a per minute basis rounded up to the next full minute. For avoidance of doubt and as an example, any 61 seconds Call will be treated as two (2) minutes Call. This charging basis shall be used up till 30th June 2006. However, charging basis mentioned in (b) below shall be used for Domestic Call Termination Service thereafter i.e. w.e.f. 1st July 2006.
(b) For International Call Termination Service, the Charges shall be on per minute basis by accumulating the total traffic in terms of seconds and then converting these to rounded minutes by dividing the sum total by sixty (60).
3.6 Only Successful Calls shall be subject to charging and no charges shall be due on unsuccessful or unanswered Calls. Successful Calls shall be charged for the duration of use of the circuit for the Call Duration.
3.7 Charges shall not apply for Calls made to:
(a) Invalid numbers
(b) A called station that is already engaged unless the called station successfully diverts such Call.
3.8 In case Operator’s Call Termination Charges have different rates for different time zones (“Charge Rate Periods”) and if Call Duration of a Successful Call extends over two (2) or mo...
Charging Principles. Unless expressly stated otherwise, all charges specified in the present Agreement and its Annexes are exclusive of VAT and other taxes. All prices specified in this Agreement and its Annexes are expressed in Euro. The Parties agree that the reference units used in the framework of the present Agreement will be as defined in Appendix II - Units per Type of Usage. The following rounding principles are applied: - the number of Calls is not rounded; - the Chargeable Call/Session Duration is not rounded; - Euros are rounded to the nearest eurocent. For example: 5.2341 = 5.23 EUR, 5.2361 = 5.24 EUR The use of decimals is set as follows: - The rates use 4 decimals in Euro; - The revenues and the totals use 2 decimals in Euro.
Charging Principles. 16.1 Any funding arrangements entered into between the Developer and the Councils under specific Work Packages shall be in accordance with the following Charging Principles:
16.1.1 The charging relates exclusively to the Council's recovery of its costs for the provision of services it is authorised but not required (by an enactment) to provide;
16.1.2 The payments are on a not-for profit basis (year by year) and, taking one year with another, the income from the charges for such services must not exceed the cost of providing them;
16.1.3 There shall be full transparency with regard to costs incurred;
16.1.4 The sole basis for charging is that the Councils can recover resources expended to achieve delivery of an agreed Work Package, in accordance with this Agreement and the terms of the Work Package;
16.2 In the event that anticipated resource expenditure required to complete any Work Package is reasonably expected to exceed authorised expenditure limit for that package, this shall immediately be brought to the attention of the Strategic Project Board and no further financial commitment shall be entered into in respect of that Work Package until the Strategic Project Board has so agreed
16.3 Subject to clause 16.1, costs recognised for charging shall be based:
16.3.1 where the work is carried out by third parties under contract, on the amounts invoiced to the Party that commissions the work
16.3.2 where the work is carried out by a Council‟s employees, on the internal staff resources committed in the agreed Work Package. For the avoidance of doubt such resources may include those used to administer third party contracts required for the implementation of this Agreement and for the further avoidance of doubt may include those used to provide legal and financial advice and support in accordance with an agreed work package.
16.4 Any charging by the Councils under this agreement shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of section 93 of the Local Government Act 2003, any relevant Government guidance and the guidance and requirements of the professional codes of practice issued by the CIPFA for time to time