Brussels, 10/10/2014 (Agence Europe) - In a ruling in Case C-428/14 on Thursday 9 October, the European Court of Justice ruled that member states must not apply different rates of excise duty to cigarettes based on their retail price because this would create an uneven playing field. The Court of Justice ruled that Italy's levying of a 15% higher minimum excise duty on low-cost cigarettes than the most popular cigarettes breaks EU law.
EU Directive 2011/64/UE on excise duty on manufactured...