With the members of the European Parliament to vote in Strasbourg on Wednesday 24 October on the draft report for the opinion by Miguel Viegas (GUE/NGL, Portugal) advising the Council to adopt without modification the updated rules on the excise duty structure applicable to alcohol, the Brewers of Europe have warned that these discriminate against flavoured beers.
Readers may recall that in May of this year, the Commission proposed to update several provisions of the 1992 directive on the...