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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12347

12 October 2019
Contents Publication in full By article 14 / 24
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / Taxation
Romania takes fourth piece of excise duty legislation hostage
Brussels, 11/10/2019 (Agence Europe)

It would appear that Romania is determined to hold hostage all excise duty legislation currently on the table of the EU Council until it has succeeded in obtaining the excise duty exemption it wants on its 'home-made' alcohol. 

According to our information, it is now the proposal for a directive to exempt supplies to armed forces participating in a European defence effort from value added tax (VAT) and excise duty, presented by the European Commission in April (see EUROPE B12241A16), which...

Contents

INSTITUTIONAL
BUDGET: Member States are divided on overall volume of multiannual financial framework 2021-2027
BUDGET: fraudulent irregularities are up sharply in 2018 in value terms, OLAF notes
UNITED KINGDOM: according to Michel Barnier, EU and London are now in a position to negotiate an agreement on an orderly Brexit
EUROPEAN COMMISSION: Emmanuel Macron wants to cut short emerging institutional 'crisis' at EU level
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
SOCIAL: coordination of social security systems, France wants to advance principle of ‘equal work, equal contribution’
SECTORAL POLICIES
PLANTS: priority must be given to fight against 20 quarantine pests on EU territory
AGRICULTURE: European Parliament Committee on Agriculture supports EU-Ukraine poultry meat agreement
AGRICULTURE: European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture opposes electronic identification of small ruminants
ENVIRONMENT: European Environmental Economic Accounts are not sufficiently useful due to lack of updated data, according to Court of Auditors
CLIMATE: Costa Rica's Pre-COP, 'encouraging' stepping stone towards more ambition at COP25
TRANSPORT: three organisations call on EU to further support deployment of hydrogen vehicle infrastructure
JUSTICE: 13 Member States in European Commission's sights in fight against sexual abuse of children
EXTERNAL ACTION
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: EU ministers to discuss responses to Turkish offensive in Syria
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
TAXATION: Romania takes fourth piece of excise duty legislation hostage
NEWS BRIEFS
BANKS: Commission consults on implementation of ‘Basel III’ supervisory framework
CATALONIA: Supreme Court of Spain would exclude accusation of rebellion against Catalan separatist leaders
UNITED STATES: Airbus dispute settlement, Washington should receive WTO approval as early as Monday 14 October
FINANCE: Commission consults on European framework for financial benchmarks
FINANCE: eight Member States required to transpose IORP Directive
MEDITERRANEAN: UfM foreign ministers want to focus on climate change and environment
TRANSPORT: Brexit, European shipping industry urges EU to negotiate an agreement for a transitional period
The B-word: Agence Europe’s newsletter on Brexit
THE B-WORD: A pathway to the (im)possible?
CALENDAR
Main activities of European Institutions: from 14/10 to 20/10/2019
CALENDAR EXTRA
Other Events: until 20 October 2019