# Commission Implementing Decision of 10 December 2013 authorising Portugal to use certain approximate estimates for the calculation            of the VAT own resources base (notified under document C(2013) 8689) (Only the Portuguese text is authentic) (2013/749/EU,            Euratom)         

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# Commission Implementing Decision

# of 10 December 2013

# authorising Portugal to use certain approximate estimates for the calculation of the VAT own resources base

# (notified under document C(2013) 8689)

# (Only the Portuguese text is authentic)

# (2013/749/EU, Euratom)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC, Euratom) No 1553/89 of 29 May 1989 on the definitive uniform arrangements for the                           collection of own resources accruing from value added tax(1), and in particular Article 13 thereof,                        

Whereas:

(1)Under Article 377 of Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax(2), Portugal may continue to exempt the transactions listed in points (2), (4), (7), (9), (10) and (13) of Annex X, Part B,                              in accordance with the conditions applying in that Member State on 1 January 1989; these transactions must be taken into account                              for the determination of the VAT resources base.

(2)Portugal has requested authorisation from the Commission to use certain approximate estimates for the calculation of the VAT                              own resources base since it is unable to make the precise calculation of the VAT own resources base for transactions referred                              to in point (10) of Annex X, Part B to Directive 2006/112/EC. Such calculation is likely to involve an unjustified administrative                              burden in relation to the effect of these transactions on Portugal’s total VAT own resources base. Portugal is able to make                              a calculation using approximate estimates for this category of transactions. Portugal should therefore be authorised to calculate                              the VAT own resources base using approximate estimates in accordance with the second indent of Article 6(3) of Regulation                              (EEC, Euratom) No 1553/89.

(3)For reasons of transparency and legal certainty it is appropriate to limit the applicability of the authorisation in time.

(4)The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Advisory Committee on Own Resources,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

# Article 1U.K.

For the purpose of calculating the VAT own resources base from 1 January 2013, Portugal is authorised to use approximate estimates                     in respect of the following categories of transactions referred to in Annex X, Part B to Directive 2006/112/EC:                  

Transport of passengers (point (10)).

# Article 2U.K.

This Decision shall apply from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2017.

# Article 3U.K.

This Decision is addressed to the Portuguese Republic.

Done at Brussels, 10 December 2013.

*For the Commission*                            

Janusz Lewandowski                            

*Member of the Commission*                            

1

OJ L 155, 7.6.1989, p. 9.                           

2

OJ L 347, 11.12.2006, p. 1.