Brussels, 09/03/2016 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 8 March, the finance ministers of the EU asked the Commission to send it an “appropriate legislative proposal” in 2017, following an impact assessment, aiming to ensure equal taxation treatment between new tobacco products, such as e-cigarettes.
In the conclusions it adopted, however, the Ecofin Council states that the Commission may opt not to put forward a legislative proposal, but that it would have to give reasons for such a...