Brussels, 29/01/2010 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament legal affairs committee, in almost unanimously adopting the draft report by Klaus-Heiner Lehne (EPP, Germany), has backed the European Commission's controversial proposal allowing member states to exempt micro-companies from the 4th accounting directive (see EUROPE 9984). It says that EU countries could give exemption from European rules for micro-companies which meet at least two of the three criteria suggested by the...