broad merchant payment acceptance survey …（广泛的商业付款接受调查u2026）.pdf

Broad Merchant Payment Acceptance Survey Final Report 21-11-2013 COMP/2012/004 EUROPEAN COMMISSION, DIRECTORATE GENERAL FOR COMPETITION COMP 2012/004 Final Report 21.11.2013 The study has been commissioned by the European Commission, Directorate General for Competition. All views expressed in this document, however, are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission. Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on its behalf is responsible for the use which might be made of the information contained in the present publication. The European Commission is not responsible for the external web sites referred to in the present publication. © European Union, 2013 Contents i 1 Introduction 7 1.1 Objective of the study 7 1.2 Purpose of the Final Report 8 1.3 Structure and content of the Final Report 8 2 Project phases 9 2.1 Inception phase 10 2.1.1. Detailed activities 10 2.2 Merchant Recruitment Support 10 2.2.1. Detailed activities 10 2.2.2. Recruitment results 12 2.2.3. Difficulties encountered during recruitment 12 2.2.4. Additional activities taken to increase participation 13 2.2.5. Recruitment Statistics Graphs 14 2.3 Data collection Database Management16 2.3.1. Detailed activities 16 2.3.2 Data collection results 17 2.3.3. Difficulties encountered during data collection 17 2.3.4. Additional activities taken to facilitate data collection 18 2.3.5. Data Collection Statistics Graphs 19 3 Participants statistics 23 3.1 Number of eligible merchants per country 23 3.2 Total turnover per country 23 3.3 Sector