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European Court of Auditors finds start of ‘plastic tax’ in EU “difficult”

Brussels, 16/09/2024 (Agence Europe)

On Monday 16 September, the European Court of Auditors published its assessment of the first results of the EU’s new own resource based on non-recycled plastic packaging waste, the exact data not being available until two years after the year in question. 

Introduced in 2021 (see EUROPE B12849A13), the ‘plastic tax’ will have generated more than €7 billion for the EU budget by 2023, or 4% of total EU revenue, according to the Court of Auditors. It has been calculated on the basis...