Brussels, 03/03/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 2 March, the European Parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee adopted the own initiative report of Zsolt Laszlo Becsey (EPP-ED, Hungary) on the draft directive to revise excise rates on cigarettes and rolling tobacco (EUROPE 9705). The aim of the proposed legislation is to avoid distorting the single market and therefore accepts a moderate increase in taxation but lower than that proposed by the European Commission: the minimum...