01/02/2021 (Agence Europe) – The European Commission launched, on Friday 29 January, a public consultation on the rules governing cross-border purchases of alcoholic beverages and tobacco products by private individuals, in order to determine how they could work better in the future. According to the current rules, excise duty on alcohol and tobacco bought by a private individual for his/her own use and transported to another EU country is only paid in the country where the goods were...