Strasbourg, 04/04/2001 (Agence Europe) - Following its rapporteur, German Social-Democrat Jutta Haug, the European Parliament approved, with a few amendments, the draft modifiation to the regulation on the use of ESA 95 (revised system of integrated national and regional accounts) in determining financial contributions to VAT-based own-resources based on VAT (see summary in EUROPE of 2 April, p.16). Going beyond the fairly technical framework of this proposal, Parliament called in particular...