On Tuesday 15 June, the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) adopted - by 44 votes to 7 with 5 abstentions - a favourable opinion on the proposal to transform the VAT Committee into a comitology committee, which, acting by qualified majority, will oversee the adoption of implementing acts by the Commission in the field of VAT (see EUROPE B12627A14).
The rapporteur on this text, Irene Tinagli (S&D, Italy), had proposed that the European Parliament - which...