CELEX: 52020DP0159
Language: en
Date: 2020-06-18 00:00:00
Title: European Parliament decision of 18 June 2020 on setting up a subcommittee on tax matters (2020/2681(RSO))

8.9.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 362/181
            
         
      P9_TA(2020)0159
      Setting up a subcommittee on tax matters
      European Parliament decision of 18 June 2020 on setting up a subcommittee on tax matters (2020/2681(RSO))
      (2021/C 362/39)
      
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                  having regard to the proposal from the Conference of Presidents,
               
            
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                  having regard to its decision of 15 January 2014 on the powers and responsibilities of the standing committees (1),
               
            
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                  having regard to Rules 206 and 212 of its Rules of Procedure,
               
            
               
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                  Decides to set up a subcommittee to the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs;
               
            
               
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                  Decides that that subcommittee shall be responsible for tax-related matters, and particularly the fight against tax fraud, tax evasion and tax avoidance, as well as financial transparency for taxation purposes;
               
            
               
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                  Decides that, in Part VI of Annex VI to its Rules of Procedure, the following paragraph is added:
                  ‘The committee is assisted by a subcommittee on tax matters, for tax-related matters and particularly the fight against tax fraud, tax evasion and tax avoidance, as well as financial transparency for taxation purposes’;
               
            
               
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                  Decides that the subcommittee shall have 30 members;
               
            
               
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                  Decides, with reference to the decisions of the Conference of Presidents of 30 June 2019 and 9 January 2020 relating to the composition of subcommittee bureaux, that the committee bureaux may consist of up to four vice-chairs;
               
            
               
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                  Instructs its President to forward this decision to the Council and the Commission, for information.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 482, 23.12.2016, p. 160.