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The words "by the means provided for in Article 7(3)" in your quote are interesting. It means the following:To my knowledge, you can't transfer frequent flyer points to someone using one of the stipulated payment methods.BA is required to refund 75%. If the ticket costs 80,000, then BA has to refund 60,000. If BA refunds 20,000 as a fare difference, then I'd say that you should subtract 20,000 from the 60,000 claimed and only request the difference of 40,000 when you go to CEDR. Note that you should also get back 75% of the fuel surcharge.
I assume if you have booked using a Gold Priority Award (which costs double avois) and you were then downgraded, the 75% refund will be by reference to the actual amount of avios you redeemed for the seat not the standard price. So taking the example above, if you'd paid 160,000 avios rather than 80,000 then BA would presumably offer you a refund of 40,000 for the downgrade (or if they were trying it on only 20,000!) and you would actually be due 120,000 (75% of the 160,000 that you actually paid).