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AMENDMENT TO THE PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE AMENDING DIRECTIVE 69/169/EEC TO INCREASE IN REAL TERMS THE TAX PAID ALLOWANCES IN INTRA-COMMUNITY TRAVEL
Date: 1990-02-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Denmark, Ireland, VAT, carriage of passengers, excise duty

COMMISSION  OF  THE  EUROPEAN  COMMUNITIES 

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B r u s s e l s,  22  February  1990 

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Amendment  to 

t he 

Proposal  f or  a 

COUNCIL  DIRECTIVE 

amending  D i r e c t i ve  69/169/EEC  to  increase  in  r e al  terms  the 

tax 

paid  allowances 

in 

intra-Community 

t r a v el 

(presented  by  the  Commission  pursuant  to  t he  t h i rd  paragraph 

of  A r t i c le  149  of 

t he  EEC  T r e a t y) 

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EXPLANATORY MEMQRANPJM 

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On 26 July 1989 the Commission presented to the Council a proposal for a 

Directive amending Directive 69/169/EEC to increase in real terms the tax-
paid allowances in intraKJomrnunity travel.1 

The Economic and Social Committee delivered a favourable opinion on this 
proposal on 18 October 1989;2  Parliament, while approving the principle 
of the proposal, Included in its opinion of 22 November 19893 two 

amendments whose purpose is to indicate clearly that the import 

restrictions provided for in the Directive will be progressively 

dismantled, until they are completely lifted on 1 January 1993. 

The Commission has accepted these amendments. 

1  0CM(89)331 SYN 205; OJ C 245, 16.9.1989, p.5. 

2  OJ C 

3  OJ C 

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Amendments to the proposal for a Council Directive 

Directive 69/169/EBC to increase in real terms the tax paid allowances in 

intra-^ommunity travel 

(presented by the Commission in accordance with Article 149(3) of the EEC 

Treaty) 

Title 

EL£Le. 

The title of the proposal to read 

as follows: 

Proposal for a Council Directive 

Proposal for a Council Directive 

amending Directive 69/169/EEC to 

amending Directive 69/169/EBC so 

increase in real terms the tax 

as progressively to dismantle the 

paid allowances in intra-

restrictions on tax paid 

Cammunity travel 

allowances in intra-Commuriity 

travel 

Preamble, Article 1 and Article 2 unchanged 

Article 3 becomes Article 4. 

A new Article 3 is inserted, as 

follows: 

Article 3 

On 1 January 1993 the limits 

referred to in Article 2, 

column II of Article 4(1), 

Article 5 and Article 7 of 

Directive 69/169/EEC shall be 

abolished. 

REST OF THE TEXT UNCHANGED 

FICHE 0'IMPACT SUR  LA  COMPETITIVITE  ET L'EMPLOI 

Cette proposition  est  présentée  suite aux  amendements  formulés par le 
Parlement  européen  et  constitue  un élément  de  réalisation de  l'Europe 
sans  frontières  telle que définie par  l'Acte Unique.  L'impact  sur la 
compétitivité  et  l'emploi  dans  la Communauté  est  négligeable. 

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ISBN 92-77-57857-2 

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