20/01/2011 (Agence Europe) - Meeting of TPG: On Wednesday 19 January, EU Taxation Commissioner Algirdas Šemeta chaired the second meeting of the Taxation Policy Group (TPG) resurrected up by the commissioner in October 2010 (see EUROPE 10235). The TPG will meet regularly and comprises personal representatives of European finance ministers to discuss the most important taxation policy issues. On the agenda of the Wednesday meeting were taxation in the financial industry (addressed the same day by EU finance ministers at the Ecofin Council), the Commission's recent Green Paper on VAT (see EUROPE 10231) and a code of conduct on company taxation. (F.G./transl fl)