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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10863
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INSTITUTIONAL / (ae) olaf

Agreement with Ukraine to fight tobacco smuggling

Brussels, 10/06/2013 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 7 June, OLAF (the European anti-fraud office) and Ukraine signed an agreement aiming to step up the fight against the illegal trade in tobacco. Contraband tobacco reaches the EU mainly via the eastern border, losing the member states around €10 billion a year in tax revenue. Cooperation with Ukraine, a country which borders five member states and whose land border with the Union is more than 1200 kilometres long, is therefore vital to...

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