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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8403

19 February 2003
Contents Publication in full By article 11 / 23
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ecofin
Disagreement continues on energy taxation - Last lap of negotiations with Switzerland on savings taxation - Agreement on VAT and Lamfalussy procedure

Brussels, 18/02/2003 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday the Ecofin Council reached an agreement, as predicted, on the creation of a financial services committee. It also concluded a political agreement on the exchange of VAT information. On the other hand, the Greek Presidency noted that there is still divergence between the Member States over the directive on energy taxation and therefore decided to "postpone discussions (until the next sitting) in order to be able to work on an agreement in the...

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