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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8416

8 March 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ecofin
Disagreement continues over energy tax - Negotiations with Switzerland on savings tax are nearing completion - Agreement on VAT and Lamfalussy procedure

Brussels, 07/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday, the Ecofin Council reached an agreement, as foreseen, on the creation of a financial services committee. It also concluded a political agreement on the exchange of information on VAT. On the other hand, the Presidency noted that opinions still differ when it comes to the directive on energy tax and it therefore decided to postpone the discussion till its next sitting in order to work, in the meantime, on an agreement on the basis of...

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