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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8158

25 February 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/taxation
Concern about alcohol excise duty harmonisation, Commission yet to publish proposals

Brussels, 25/02/2002 (Agence Europe) - A spokesperson for the Taxation Commissioner Frits Bolkestein has said that the Commission will be unveiling a proposal in April or May on alcohol excise duty but that nothing was known about its content yet. Jonathan Todd was responding to the growing concern being expressed particularly in Italy, where Coldiretti (a group of small farmers' associations) has slammed the Commission's plans in a press release in which it says the Commission will be...

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