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These have to compete with peers in auctions for degressive compensation payments up to 2026, after which no compensation will be paid and plants can be ordered to close.

In 2007, MEPs proposed introducing an “undisputed mathematical formula” to implement the concept of “degressive proportionality,” stipulated in what was then the draft of the Lisbon Treaty.

Seats are supposed to be allocated in a way that preserves "degressive proportionality".

Weight charges levied on newspapers should at least be on a degressive scale.

Contrasted with this method of growing differentiation, are the retrogressive modifications, which simply retrace a step, and the degressive changes in which a backward step is retraced and old characters revived.