29/04/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 29 April, the European Commission adopted a proposal to update the financial rules in line with new Council decision 2007/436/EC, Euratom of June 2007 on the system of the European Communities' own resources. The amendments proposed are: - elimination of the distinction between agricultural duties and import duties; and the inclusion of gross reductions for the Netherlands and Sweden in their own annual GNI (gross national income) based contributions...