On Wednesday 30 June, the Member States’ ambassadors to the EU (Coreper) decided to limit the Commission’s proposal to exempt from VAT the goods and services that the EU makes available to Member States and citizens in times of crisis to the Covid-19 crisis (see EUROPE B12696A8).
Faced with Member States’ concerns about the scope of the proposal, which was considered too broad, and the lack of an impact assessment, the Portuguese Presidency of the EU Council had proposed this...