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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8205

4 May 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ecofin
Presidency hopes to make progress on energy taxation in order to define "guidelines" at end of term

Brussels, 03/05/2002 (Agence Europe) - The Spanish Presidency hopes to make the debate move forward during the Ecofin Council on Tuesday on the directive on taxation of energy, proposed in 1997 by the European Commission. It also hopes to determine the main policy guidelines at the end of the same term of office. The Barcelona Summit had requested that, "in parallel with the opening of the energy markets, an agreement on the adoption of the directive on taxation of energy should be found...

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