Work at the Council of the EU is continuing and speeding up on the draft directive on the fight against fraud and non-cash payment alternative instruments (see EUROPE 11865). In a document dated 14 February, the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU referred to the good progress made but indicated that one question was still the subject of a number of differences: the criterion on the intention to commit an offence.
It should be recalled that the draft directive sets out a list of...