0 a change from using or doing one thing to another:
The switchover to daylight saving time represents a one percent saving of electricity annually.
1 a change from using or doing one thing to another:
The switchover to daylight-savings time represents a 1 percent saving of electricity annually.
2 a change from using one technical system, etc. to another:
Note that the psychological cost of switchover is low and a clinical trial is costly.
The target timetable for switchover to digital television remains at 2006–10.
With the switchover from analogue to digital television, there is room available on the spectrum at the moment.
As your rapporteur rightly points out, radio spectrum released by the digital switchover needs to be reallocated as soon as possible.
These considerations come into play as regards the significant technological change that the switchover to digital represents.
That is the first phase of the switchover.
Now, there is pressure on us to protect countries with strong currencies against even the small effect that the switchover system allows.
I must emphasise that the switchover will be emphasised on those criteria, not on dates, although we have forecast a date of 2006–2010.