On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
All Assignments made since 1992 will be included.
I have stated it before and I'll state it again - changing the billing rules retroactively is wrong. Maybe even EU legally wrong. Allocations made in the 1990s should not be billed. By all means recover unannounced allocations by whatever means necessary, but charging LIRs for allocations made in 1995 is wrong.
Well, as someone said, this is from now onwards only. Yet this is the goal - to charge for everything, for these in use and for these kept "just in case". Money can trigger some changes in peoples' minds and switch them from "grab as much as you can" mode into new one, which can be "keep as little as you really need and try to conserve as much as possible" I reckon it is too cheap. I can not imagine any running business, in fact large scale business which needs PI and can not afford 50 EU per year! This is not 50 grant, is it? Regards Dariusz Margas